ADOBE PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT (PDF) FILES
  

All the PDF files on this site have been created using version 3 of Acrobat.  Depending on which printer you are using, they may not print properly in Adobe Acrobat Reader version 4.0 or 5.0 unless you select  the "Print as image" option in the printer dialog box. Using the "Print as image" option may take several minutes to print one page. Many of the PDF files available on this site require using Acrobat Reader version 3.01 (or higher). Acrobat Reader version 2.1 will not read these PDF files correctly and Acrobat Reader 3.0 has trouble printing correctly.

• Adobe Systems Incorporated is the creator of the postscript page description language which is widely used to do high quality printing.

• Adobe's "Acrobat" line of products is designed for publishing documents on the Web. The core of that publishing system is the Portable Document Format (PDF) developed by Adobe. The Immunization Action Coalition uses the Adobe page layout software, PageMaker, to produce its newsletter and other documents. These documents are then converted into PDF files using the Adobe Acrobat Distiller program and placed on our web site.

• In order to read a PDF file, you need to run, on your computer, the Adobe Acrobat Reader program which is available for free from Adobe. There are Acrobat Reader versions for MS Windows, MS Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh, and Unix platforms.

• The current versions of Acrobat Reader, version 4.0 or 5.0, install a "plug-in" into Netscape Navigator 2.0 (or later). With the plug-in, Netscape will automatically run Acrobat Reader for the display and printing of .pdf files you download from the Web.

• Another option is for you to install Acrobat Reader as a "helper" application in your browser so that Acrobat reader will be run automatically to display and allow printing of .pdf files downloaded by Netscape.

Click here for some tips on downloading and printing PDF files.

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