Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF)

PDF Documents

Many PRA journals and other documents such as project reports are now provided in the platform-independent Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF), which has become a de facto standard for printable documents distributed via the Internet. See below for more details.

PDF documents require the Adobe Acrobat® Reader to view or print. We recommend that you download the latest version (currently 6.0) to ensure that documents are displayed correctly. Versions of the Acrobat Reader for all platforms (e.g. Windows, Unix & Macintosh) are available for free download from the Adobe website.

Downloading PDF Documents

If you click on a link from a web page to a large PDF document it may take a very long time to download and display "live". A better method is to save the document first to your local hard drive, then view it off-line. To do this from Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator in Windows, right-click on the link to the PDF document then choose the "Save..." option, for example "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As...". Once the download is complete, use Windows Explorer to locate the file you have saved, then double-click to view it in Acrobat.

More information taken from the Adobe website:

Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is the open de facto standard for electronic document distribution worldwide. Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colors, and graphics of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as intended by anyone with a free Adobe Acrobat® Reader.

Adobe® Acrobat® Reader is free, and freely distributable, software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.