Why use PDF?
If you want to transfer files by email or the Web to other computer users and to ensure that your files are readable, the safest option is to convert them to PDF. Other computer users will not always have the appropriate software to view your text and graphics files but the software to read.
PDF files is free and widely installed. PDF is frequently used as a 'print-friendly' format which can be made widely available from the Web.
PDF files will appear exactly the same whatever computer you use, so a PDF file made from a document which was originally formatted in Word will look exactly the same on someone else's machine as it did on yours. This is true even if graphics were embedded in the original file.
PDF is:
Viewable on any computer - formatted as it left the author
Able to include any text, tables or graphics as a single file
Printable
How do I create a PDF file?
First you will need the full Acrobat software (not simply the Acrobat Reader).
If you want to transfer files by email or the Web to other computer users and to ensure that your files are readable, the safest option is to convert them to PDF. Other computer users will not always have the appropriate software to view your text and graphics files but the software to read.
PDF files is free and widely installed. PDF is frequently used as a 'print-friendly' format which can be made widely available from the Web.
PDF files will appear exactly the same whatever computer you use, so a PDF file made from a document which was originally formatted in Word will look exactly the same on someone else's machine as it did on yours. This is true even if graphics were embedded in the original file.
PDF is:
Viewable on any computer - formatted as it left the author
Able to include any text, tables or graphics as a single file
Printable
How do I create a PDF file?
First you will need the full Acrobat software (not simply the Acrobat Reader).
1 comment:
You can also use the freeware program PDF995 to create pdf files :)
- Jenn
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