Reading PDF files on the Internet

The PDF (Portable Document Format) file format was created by the Adobe corporation so that computer-generated work could be viewed and manipulated on any computer.

For example, most of the computer-generated work in the Phillipsburg School District is done on Apple computers. As a general rule, you can not use Apple files on a Wintel (Windows/Intel) computer and vice-versa.

Adobe's PDF file format allows people to do exactly this.

To accomplish this task, you need a computer with Adobe's Acrobat Reader software installed on it. If your computer is equipped so, you need do nothing else. You have access to any PDF file anywhere.

If your computer does not have Adobe's Acrobat Reader installed on it, what can you do? Click on the link below to install it. This software is free.

If you own an Apple Macintosh computer and would like to create PDF files, a $20 shareware program (
PrintToPDF) is available by clicking on the link below.

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PrintToPDF Apple App