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As they prepare to comply with new requirements to make Web sites readable by visually impaired users, federal Webmasters point to a major concern - PDF files. But Adobe Systems Inc., the company that invented Portable Document Format, says a new version of its Acrobat Reader will be available by spring. The new version will make it possible for screen readers to read many of the PDF files that are now unreadable, said Rick Brown, accessibility chief at Adobe. These are essentially pictures of old pages and usually cannot be deciphered by screen readers. Other PDF files contain text as well as images.