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Adobe PDF documents are documents that are stored in a special format called PDF (Portable Document Format). Normally, a writer creates her document using a word processor, then uses a conversion utility (from Adobe) to convert the document from the word processor's format into PDF. The benefit of having a document in PDF format is that it can be viewed on any computer that has an Adobe Acrobat® Reader™. And, Adobe distributes the Acrobat® Reader™for free. Download reader from Adobe. Once you have the reader installed on your system, when you click on a link that is a PDF document or when you double-click on a PDF file on your computer, the reader will launch and bring the document into the window. At this point, you can scroll up-and-down the document using the slider bar on the left. You can also zoom in and out of the document by clicking on the magnifying-glass icons (the + zooms in, the - zooms out) then clicking in the document where you want to zoom. (You will find these icons and others in a toolbar across the top of the document.) You can also change the magnification of the entire document by clicking on the magnifying-glass button at the bottom of the reader window and typing in a magnification in the popup box that you will get. Depending upon your monitor's resolution and the font size of the document, you may find that a magnification greater than 100% gives you the best readability. Some PDF documents will have images in them. If an image looks unclear, try zooming in on it by clicking on the + magnifying-glass icon, then clicking on the image. PDF documents may also come with a table of contents down the right-hand side, depending upon how the document writer set up the document. If a table of contents is available, you can click on any of the content headings and you will be taken to that part of the document. And, some PDF documents will have links enabled. If that is so, the links will normally be underlined or highlighted in some way. When you click on a link, the web page will be brought up in your browser. The first time you click a link, however, you may get a popup box from the reader that asks you to select a browser. Use the Browse button on the popup box to find your browser (normally, on a PC with Windows it will be C:/program files/Internet Explorer/Iexplore.exe or C:/program files/netscape/communicator/program/netscape.exe, depending on which one you want to use). Click on the filename and select that as your browser. The reader will then know which browser to launch to display the web pages.
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