Local and state adoption City, county, and state governments throughout the U.S. make such staples as legal forms, maps, committee hearings, public notices, and reports readily available in Adobe PDF, typically via a Web site.
Many forms allow online completion and submission after registration with the local government.
The Wisconsin State Legislature reduced printing costs and saved programming time by using Acrobat to automatically convert documents to Adobe PDF files for online distribution. Many state legislators are now using laptops to view PDF renditions of bills and amendments while debating legislation in the assembly chamber. Worldwide acceptance Governments in other countries are adopting Adobe's Acrobat technologies for many of the same reasons. In fact, arguably the largest use of Adobe PDF by a single governmental body may lie outside the United States. That adds up to roughly 813,000 Adobe PDF files - at last count, anyway.