Adobe Acrobat Reader and It's Uses

By Ileana Limon

Adobe Acrobat reader is a freeware developed by Adobe Systems. It is designed for the purpose of opening and viewing Portable Document Format or PDF files with ease. Using Adobe Acrobat Reader, one can present information in a fixed format similar to a paper publication.

The thing about Adobe Acrobat reader is that it has the potential to make any ordinary document, Word document for example, into a universally-readable and printable file. From the .doc extension, your file will now possess a .pdf extension. To view it, you can simply double click the pdf file just like opening the word document. Once opened, you can make a little modification to transform your set of information into a format that has the resemblance of a web page. Like a web page, it has functional buttons, text and graphics.

The features of Adobe Acrobat reader provide great flexibility and convenience to the readers. Viewing is made easy and clear as you can increase and decrease the magnification, resize the pages and you can navigate through the areas you want to view with ease.

More features give more accessibility to the readers; setting the page layout and its orientation has never been so easy plus it has a variety of excellent layouts to choose from. Another feature provides you the opportunity to rotate the page so that you can still view pages that are disoriented and turned upside down.

Another success feature of Adobe Acrobat reader is its easy navigation feature. It is the thing which most readers like most. This navigation feature allows you to go through pages you are looking at without any hassle. It has shortcuts and menu commands for this purpose.

The advance features of Adobe Acrobat reader give more advantage for the readers as they work on the information they need. The "word search" feature enables readers to successfully search for certain areas in the paragraphs of the document page. This has made Adobe Acrobat reader an even more practical tool.

Indeed, the software has come a long way. Over the years, it developed to become a powerful tool it is today. Along the way, it has incorporated the features that make other features powerful and eliminated the ones that have made it less appealing. Now, it is widely patronized by people for the purpose of disseminating information in the online media. After all the changes and updates it underwent; it now has 9 excellent versions. The Acrobat 9.1.3 being the last was released on July 2009, created to answer a number of critical security vulnerabilities.

Over the years, Adobe Acrobat reader has proven to be the most powerful tool when it comes to archiving and publishing documents for software. No wonder it became the format of choice for many online journals and because it comes for free, it made a great impact on the publishing community. It will likely hold to that position for a long while. - 31375

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