What is this "Adobe Reader 7.0"

[Guest TaDaraCampbell]

Looking through my files and what-not on my computer I saw this "Adobe Reader 7.0". I've seen it a few times before, and have opened and tried to see what it does without prevail. It seems to be a program for editing pictures? So I tried opening a picture file onto it, but it cannot open because it can't support that kind of file or something.

 

 

 

Onto my questions:

 

 

 

1) What is Adobe?

 

 

 

2) What can I do on it?

 

 

 

3) If it has something to do with picture editing, what kind of pictures do I need to open onto it?

[zonda]

it's a program used a lot of times for people to get info thru... I can't really explain it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Think of it it this way, if you have a big spreadsheet with a lot of graphs and what not, you might use adobe acrobat, post it on the internet, and then people can simply click the link, and it will open in your acrobat reader just like a webpage would, only it's more interactive and what not. It is also commonly used for things like newspapers or leaflets. This is really the best way I can describe it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally I don't care for it, its useless to me and it lags whenever I use it anyway, depite computer specs.

[Cruiser]

Acrobat is the "official" reader for PDF files (Portable Document Format).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PDFs were meant to be a universal format that can be opened by just about anyone so you don't need some random editing program (Like word, or power point, or some exotic editor) to open the file.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Create your document, export to PDF, you're pretty much guaranteed everyone can open it (the specification is open, so there's tons of other reads out there for PDF)

[Sharper]

If for some reason you wish to create your own PDF files a great, free, way of doing it is with CutePDF Writer.

[Vape]

Adobe is a company that makes software.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adobe Reader, Acrobat Reader and Adobe Acrobat are all about the same thing - pdf files. Pdf is "the" file format for distributing documents that you want anyone to be able to open on any platform and have it look the same. It's regularly used for things like newsletters, catalogues, forms, etc. that are primarily designed to be printed out. It's not so great for stuff that's just designed to be read on screen as it doesn't adjust to fit on the screen, or to a user's preferred font size and family, and it tends to have a far higher download size compared to XHTML + images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format