Windows Unix Installing the Acrobat Reader Adobe Acrobat is a file format that is being used increasingly on the World Wide Web to distribute documents. If you come across documents in the .pdf format, you will need to download a program to view them with and install it on your computer. The software for viewing Acrobat documents, the Acrobat Reader , is free. You can download the Reader by following the approprate link at the top of this page. If you don't see a suitable viewer for your platform, or you have more questions about the installation process, try Adobe's Acrobat page .
Installation is simple.
Run the downloaded application, which should install the Reader into a folder on your hard disk. From then on, you can view and print Acrobat files from your computer whenever you come across them. More about Acrobat Acrobat is a powerful tool for distributing documents which need to be widely distributed and faithful to the original design. Because of the file format, it is compact and secure, and since the reader is free, it is accessable to almost everyone.