Adobe Reader is free software that enables business professionals and home users to reliably share information using intelligent PDF files. You can easily view, print, and search PDF files using a variety of platforms and devices. Acrobat Reader also lets you fill in and submit PDF forms online.

Adobe Portable Document Format: Invented by Adobe Systems and perfected over 15 years, Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) lets you capture and view robust information ? from any application, on any computer system ? and share it with anyone around the world.

Individuals, businesses, and government agencies everywhere trust and rely on Adobe® PDF to communicate their ideas and vision.

Key features of Adobe Portable Document Format include:

- Open format ? De facto standard for more secure, dependable electronic information exchange ? recognized by industries and governments around the world. Compliant with industry standards including PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/E.
- Multiplatform ? Viewable and printable on any platform ? Macintosh, Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX®, and many mobile platforms.
- Extensible ? More than 1,800 vendors worldwide offer PDF-based solutions including creation, plug-in, consulting, training, and support tools.
- Trusted and reliable ? More than 200 million PDF documents on the web today serve as evidence of the number of organizations that rely on Adobe PDF to capture information.
- Maintain information integrity ? Adobe PDF files look exactly like original documents and preserve source file information ? text, drawings, 3D, full-color graphics, photos, and even business logic ? regardless of the application used to create them.
- Keep information secure ? Digitally sign or password-protect Adobe PDF documents created with Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 or Adobe LiveCycle? software.
- Searchable ? Leverage full-text search features to locate words, bookmarks, and data fields in documents.
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