What is an Acrobat pdf file?
Adobe Acrobat™ pdf (portable document format) files are compressed files that can be viewed on any computer platform (eg. Windows, Macintosh, Unix) with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Acrobat Reader™ is free and may be downloaded from the Adobe® website at www.adobe.com. Pdfs files are very useful for presenting visuals for you to check on-screen. Such pdfs are highly compressed, low resolution, cross-platform versions created from the page layout files. Screen resolution pdfs are usually small enough in file size to be emailed (whilst the page layout files they are made from may be very large indeed) but they still look like the original document including images and typefaces. You don’t need to be using the same type of computer or the same software to see your design as it will look. Pdfs can also be created that are suitable for laserprint output or even for commercial printing output. Let us know your output needs and we can supply a suitable pdf file.
