To create Acrobat files, you will need the commercial product, Acrobat . You can set your browser up so that Acrobat acts as a helper application. When you access a PDF file, your browser will automatically open it with Acrobat and then read the file. Acrobat files can be downloaded from the Internet using FTP, or saved from web pages. You can then use the Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the file.
Acrobat files tend to be fairly large.
Pay careful attention to the size of files your are downloading. The New Literacy - Navigating the Information Super Highway. Materials on this site are authorised for publication on the Internet by Joanne Howard , Staff Development Section.