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Plug Acrobat into browsers

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HTML isn't the only way to distribute documents on the Web. Many universities, corporations and government agencies are posting literature on their Web sites in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document format. Any PC or Mac can display a PDF file exactly as it was intended to be viewed -- with graphics, fonts, and layout unchanged. That's not yet true of HTML files, which each browser interprets slightly differently. Furthermore, the Acrobat reader lets you page through a document, zoom in to read portions of a story, and even print a publication in its magazine format.
To display PDF files with your Web browser, you need to download a copy of the free Acrobat reader, available at Adobe's Web site (http://www.adobe.com). Different flavours of the reader are available for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The newest version, Acrobat 3.0, works as a plug-in to your browser. You no longer need to set it up as a helper application. When you encounter a PDF file on the Web, Acrobat displays it automatically within the browser. It can even display HTML code and PDF files simultaneously.
- Judy Heim

Category: Publishing and presentation, Internet
Issue: Feb 1997
Pages: 178