Acrobat

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Introduction to Adobe Acrobat

Description

Adobe Acrobat is a system for producing cross-platform hyper-linked publications in the PDF (Portable Document Format) file format.

Components

• Distiller

  The program that converts files from postscript to the PDF file format.

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  Exchange

   

  The program for annotating, creating hyper-links, and adding security control to PDF files. Basically this is the program that edits new PDF files.

   

• Reader
  • The program for viewing, navigating and possibly printing (depending upon security settings) PDF documents.

    The Adobe Acrobat Reader is the freeware component of the the package. Adobe makes the Reader application available for free download for almost all platforms.