What is Acrobat Reader and Portable Document Format?
• Via the eStandards Store, ANSI offers national and international standards directly over the World Wide Web. The documents are available in Portable Document Format, which requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in for viewing. • PDF is the preferred file format, because it preserves the look and style of the document. PDF also reduces the file size thereby shortening the download time. • The documents are not editable, nor do they permit selecting for cutting and pasting text. They do permit printing and searching on the full text. No password is required to open the files. • However, some of the older documents are scanned at 300 dpi and converted to PDF+Text. If the document you have is a scanned version, it is because an original, electronic source file was not available. We are also working closely with developers to track down electronic text which we may not have had access to during production. This is due to a variety of factors, including platform/OS issues between author an
The VoxPop™ documents are available in Portable Document Format (PDF), which requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in for viewing. PDF is the preferred file format because it preserves the look and style of the document. PDF also reduces the file size thereby shortening the download time. No password is required to open PDF files.
