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Adobe PDF Overview
Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format) is a popular format for reading documents on your computer monitor. It is easy to read and print and is an ideal format for documents on the web or for reading on your desktop computer. The biggest drawback of PDF is its inability to re-flow text for different size devices.
Adobe PDF Advantages
- Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all the fonts, formatting, graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it.
- Adobe PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as intended by anyone with free Adobe Acrobat® Reader® software.
- Adobe PDF files can be published and distributed anywhere: in print, attached to e-mail, on corporate servers, posted on Web sites, or on CD-ROM.
- Adobe PDF eBooks are printable (unless printing is disabled by the publisher).
Adobe PDF Software
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Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® is free software used to view and print PDF files and is available for Windows, Mac and Unix computers. Click on the button on the left to download it for free. |
Adobe PDF Devices, Platforms & System Requirements
Windows PC Computer / Windows Tablet
- Intel® Pentium® processor
- Microsoft® Windows® 95 OSR 2.0, Windows 98 SE, Windows Millennium, Windows
- NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 5, or Windows 2000
- 64 MB of RAM
- 24 MB of available hard-disk space
Macintosh Computer
- PowerPC® processor
- Mac OS software version 8.6(*), 9.0.4, 9.1, or OS X(*)
- 64 MB of RAM
- 24 MB of available hard-disk space
* Some features may not be available due to OS limitations
Palm OS PDA
Palm OS device with English version of Palm OS 3.1 or higher (Palm m100, Palm m105, Palm m500, Palm m505, Palm IIIe, Palm IIIx, Palm IIIxe, Palm IIIc, Palm V, Palm Vx, Palm VII, Palm VIIx, Handspring Visor, Handspring Visor Deluxe, Handspring Platinum Visor, Handspring Visor Prism, Handspring Visor Edge, Sony Clié PEG-S300, Sony Clié PEG-N710C). Reader for Palm OS may be compatible with newer Palm OS devices not listed.
- 200 KB of available space on Palm OS device
- 2 MB of RAM on Palm OS device (8 MB recommended)
- Palm Desktop 3.0.1 or higher
- Intel® Pentium® processor
- 16 MB of RAM
- 20 MB of available hard-disk space
- Microsoft® Windows® 98, Windows Millennium, Windows NT® 4.0, or Windows 2000
- Support for Mac OS coming in a future release.
Adobe PDF Encryption
There are many forms of encryption available for PDF files. Most of the encryption schemes limit the use of the file to one computer so that files cannot be copied and sent to other consumers. Some PDF titles are encrypted and some are not.
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