PDF provides the fastest way to publish any document online, Since PDF is independent of platforms, applications, and distribution media, and it is the ideal basis for your worldwide document distribution, archiving, and retrieval strategy.

Publishers can capture the exact look and feel of the printed magazines and newspapers and can deliver visually appealing content to their readers no matter where they are. The Web allows you to reach more international readers than ever before you can take your existing work and convert it automatically into Web-ready content.

It empowers everyone to create and share documents across platforms while maintaining the documents original look and feel.

PDF lets users create documents only once for both hard copy and electronic distribution, helping businesses to more quickly gain the cost advantages of electronic documents without sacrificing the high-quality look and feel of the printed original.

PDF has become the most popular electronic publishing format on the Internet and publishing, millions of users are using it, using PDF as electronic document distribution system on the Internet can be cost savings of up to 90% over traditional paper distribution.

PDF is complete interchangeable between computers and can be viewed or printed without the need of the program in which the document was created.

PDF software provides a powerful solution for non-roman languages to easily create Web-ready content with the applications they already use. With its ability to help customers easily share information across platforms. PDF is capable of representing rich electronic documents that include formatted text, line art and scanned images.

PDF documents can be thousands of pages long and have built-in navigation aids such as document-specific bookmarks and page thumbnails. Creating PDF files from any application is incredibly fast and easy. Adobe currently provides Acrobat Reader products for the following platforms:

Macintosh (Acrobat Reader version 3.01)
Windows(R) (Acrobat Reader version 3.01)
Sun(TM) Solaris(R) (Acrobat Reader version 3.01)
SunOS(TM) (Acrobat Reader version 3.01)
IBM(R) AIX(R) (Acrobat Reader version 3.01)
HP-UX (Acrobat Reader version 3.01)
Silicon Graphics(R) IRIX(TM) (Acrobat Reader version 3.01)
Digital UNIX(R) (Acrobat Reader version 3.01)
Linux (Acrobat Reader version 3.01)
OS/2(R) (Acrobat Reader version 3.0)
MS-DOS (Acrobat Reader version 1.0)

[1] According to Adobe Corporation you can distribute the free Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader software to anyone - inside or outside your company - who needs to view, navigate, and search PDF files. You may make unlimited copies of the Acrobat Reader 3.0 software and give copies to other persons or entities as long as the copies contain the Electronic End-User License Agreement and the same copyright and other proprietary notices that appear on or in the software. For further information and download please visit www.adobe.com, or search for Adobe Acrobat Reader in your Computer CDs.