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Adobe Acrobat Reader

A free Portable Document Format (PDF) reader from Adobe.

Version

Reader 8.0

Platform:

Windows, Mac, Linux

Eligibility:

Available to all members of the campus community.

System Requirements:

Windows

  • Intel® Pentium® III or equivalent processor
  • Windows XP Professional, Home Edition, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2; Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 4; Windows 2003 Server; or Windows Vista™*
  • 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
  • 110MB of available hard-disk space
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0, Firefox 1.5 or 2.0, Mozilla 1.7, AOL 9

* Reader 8 has been tested with a beta version of Windows Vista, and Adobe expects a subsequent version of Reader to support the shipping version of Windows Vista.

Macintosh

  • PowerPC® G3, G4, G5 or Intel® processor
  • Mac OS X v.10.4.3 or later
  • 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
  • 110MB of available hard-disk space
  • Safari 2.0.2

Linux

  • 32 bit Intel Pentium processor
  • Red Hat Linux AS 3.0 2.4.21, 4.0 2.6, Red Hat Linux ES 3.0 2.4.21, 4.0 2.6, Red Hat Linux WS 3.02.4.21, 4.0 2.6, Red Hat Linux Desktop, Red Hat Linux 9.0 2.4.20-6, SUSE Enterprise Server 9X 2.6, SUSE Professional 9.2 2.6.4, Novell Linux Desktop (9.x) 2.6.4
  • 128MB RAM (256MB Recommended)
  • Up to 125MB of available hard-disk space
  • Mozilla 1.73, 1.8, Netscape 7, Firefox 1.0

Installation Instructions:

Windows 2000/XP Mac OSX

Downloads:

Version 8

Windows XP, Mac OSX PPC, Mac OSX Intel

Version 7

Windows 2000/XP, Mac OSX, Linux

Version 6

Windows 2000/XP, Mac Classic, Mac OSX

HowTos:

Printing PDF Documents using Acrobat Reader Plugin

Zooming In and Out of PDF Document

Downloading PDF Documents

Troubleshooting Acrobat Reader

 

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