How to Use Adobe Portable Document Format Files

Adobe® PDF Files

Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is the open de facto standard for electronic document distribution worldwide. Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colors, and graphics of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as intended by anyone with a free Adobe Acrobat® Reader™.

Adobe PDF is the ideal format for electronic document distribution because it transcends the problems commonly encountered in electronic file sharing.

Download Adobe Acrobat Reader

Adobe® Acrobat Reader™ is free, and freely distributable, software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Follow the on-line instructions to download the reader software for your language and platform.

Note: You will receive the most recent version of Acrobat Reader that is available for your language and platform.

System Requirements

Current version

5.0 (4.0 and 3.0 available for some platforms and languages)

Platforms

Windows Palm OS, Windows, Macintosh, UNIX

Acrobat Reader for Palm OS

Windows

Acrobat Reader 5.0

Windows

Macintosh

Acrobat Reader 4.0

IBM AIX
DEC OSF/1
HP-UX
SGI IRIX
Linux
Solaris

Acrobat Reader 3.0

Windows 3.1 and 3.11 for Workgroups

Macintosh 68K

UNIX

Sun SPARCstation

IBM AIX
Linux Workstation

Digital UNIX

OS/2