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 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 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.
Click on
the image above to download the free software; once downloaded, install
it, follow the instructions and you are ready to go. Note that after installation,
Adobe Acrobat® Reader® will automatically launch whenever you
need to read a PDF file.
Adobe PDF
is the emerging workflow standard in the $400 billion publishing industry.
It also plays a key role in financial services, regulated industries,
and government, with more than 155 agencies worldwide sharing Adobe PDF
files.
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problems |
Adobe
PDF solutions |
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Recipients can't open files because they don't have the applications
used to create the documents. |
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Anyone, anywhere can open a PDF file. All you need is free Acrobat
Reader software. |
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Formatting, fonts, and graphics are lost because of platform, software,
and version incompatibilities. |
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PDF files always display exactly as created, regardless of fonts,
software, and operating systems. |
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Documents don't print correctly because of software or printer limitations.
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PDF files always print correctly on any printing device. |
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Content in existing documents can't be repurposed for other uses because
of formatting problems. |
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Content in PDF documents can be saved in Rich Text Format and reused
in other applications. |
Adobe PDF
also offers the following benefits:
• 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.
• Free Acrobat Reader software is easy to download from the Adobe
Web site. More than 300 million copies have been distributed worldwide.
• Compact Adobe PDF files are smaller than their source files, can
be downloaded a page at a time for fast display on the Web, and don't
slow down your network.
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