1418 Adobe Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms. This new version of the familiar Adobe Acrobat Reader provides a host of rich features that enable you to:

• Submit Adobe PDF forms that are created with fillable form fields in such applications as Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe Form Designer • Play back a variety of embedded multimedia content, such as QuickTime and MP3 files • Read and organize high-fidelity eBooks • Activate search and accessibility capabilities built into your PDF files • Display Adobe Photoshop? Album slide shows and electronic cards and export images for online photo processing (online photo services vary regionally)

Upgrading to free Adobe Reader 7.0 software improves the way you get work done. Adobe Reader 7.0 gives you improved speed, enhanced security, rich media capabilities, and other new features to help you share information using Adobe PDF documents.

Open and save PDF files faster than ever. Adobe Reader 7.0 launches much faster than previous versions (up to 50% faster than version 6.0).

With new Adobe Reader 7.0, you can view 3D content, Macromedia Flash (SWF) animations, and Windows Media clips in your Adobe PDF files. See an example of this feature by viewing the Adobe Acrobat 7.0 interactive tour (requires Adobe Reader 7.0).

Adobe Reader 7.0 now provides support for Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, and Vietnamese including text input, automatic font updates, an extended font pack, and spelling dictionaries. Additionally, cut/paste functionality between all languages has been improved.

Find and retrieve any PDF document or a phrase in a document within a matter of seconds. Search for words in page content, annotations, bookmarks, form fields, or document metadata within any PDF file on a local machine. Learn more about the advanced search capabilities of Adobe Reader.

Fill in and submit forms electronically and save filled-in forms locally when this capability is enabled by the document author in Adobe LiveCycle software.

Apply digital signatures to certify and authenticate a document when enabled by Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional or Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions software.

Easily review and add comments to documents by extending the commenting capability of Adobe Reader using Acrobat 7.0 Professional or Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions. Find out how to extend review and commenting tools to Adobe Reader 7.0 users.

Use Adobe PDF documents to meet the accessibility requirements mandated by Section 508 of the amended Rehabilitation Act. Find out more about Adobe Reader and accessibility.

More reasons to upgrade to Adobe Reader 7.0:

• Up to 50% faster launch time than version 6.0
• Ability to view, rotate, annotate, and measure 3D content embedded within PDF documents that are created with Adobe Acrobat 3D software
• Ability to search for Internet content from within Adobe Reader
• New extended Central European font pack
• Capability to download digital editions to Adobe Reader for Pocket PC
• Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, and Vietnamese text input support
• Windows Server 2003 and Windows NT (limited) support
• Mac OS X (Tiger) support
• Netscape 8, Firefox, and Mozilla 1.7 support (Windows only)
• Better forms handling
• Improved security

New in version 7.0.8:
• Adds new functionality, fixes a number of bugs, and is more secure.
• You can now perform a Yahoo Contextual (Y!Q) web search directly on text selected from within a document. For longer phrases especially, this returns better results than with a regular Yahoo search.

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2.8 or higher

Freeware

For more information, visit:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

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