Viewing and Printing PDF Files

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Some of the files on this site are in Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF files are printer independent and can easily print a duplicate of the original publication using any graphics printer. The PDF format was developed by Adobe Systems, Inc. and allows the user to print a publication very close in appearance to the original printed version, preserving typography, columns, charts, tables and graphics. Many web sites use PDF when they need to transmit documents as exact replicas of the original. (Even Uncle Sam uses PDF at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service website. Once you have it installed on your computer you will be able to view thousands of important documents.)

To read and print a PDF publication, you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your computer. Adobe Systems, Inc. offers this software to the public free of charge. You can download the Adobe Acrobat Reader version suitable for your system (DOS, Windows, Mac, etc.) from the Adobe Home Page. Instructions for installation are also available there.


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