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In what format do you save your documents? Of course, you will say, it is the Word document format with the .DOC extension. You can also save documents in .RTF (Rich Text Format) format, plain text format (.TXT), template format (.DOT), web-page format (.HTM, .HTML) and others.
But if you plan to distribute your documents somehow, as well as through the Internet, you must be absolutely sure that your information will be available for reading
by all the interested parties, regardless of what operating system (MacOS or Windows) they use, and without losing your formatting.
Speaking about the documents, I mean files containing both, text information as well as graphics and multimedia. This kind of documents usually includes reference books, technical manuals, textbooks, etc.
It goes without saying that, you can place all the necessary information on your own website and this
way it will be available to all the Internet users. But such document’s distribution also has some disadvantages:
1) Firstly, there is no more or less serious protection from copying your information and the break of your copyright by other users.
2) And secondly, for reviewing and/or detailed learning of your information, you must be always on-line.
Regarding these factors, it makes sense to you to save your documents in a special format which is independent from the used platform and the operating system.
So, for today, the PDF format (Portable Document Format) developed by Adobe Systems is considered to be the most popular format of electronic documents distribution. It was also them who created software to work with documents in PDF format such as Adobe Acrobat (creation, viewing, editing, printing PDF-documents) and Adobe Reader (for viewing and printing
PDF-files).
You can convert any document in PDF format, including the Word document, but to do this you need to have Adobe Acrobat product set on your computer with a full suite of software for writing PDF-files. Such package costs pretty much money and in most cases there is no urgent need for this luxury for the average user.
Besides the original software from Adobe Systems developed for creating the PDF-files, there is also a free
PDF converter that can be used both, for personal and commercial purposes.
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Download:
Version 1.0
Windows XP/Vista/Seven
download (1.15 MB)
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Additional downloads:
Adobe Reader X 10.1.0
download (38 MB)
Microsoft Office 2010 (60 days free)
download
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