What is Adobe PDF?

Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world, with a ten-year track record. PDF is a universal file format that preserves the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. Adobe® PDF files are compact and complete, and can be shared, viewed, and printed by anyone with free Adobe Reader® software. To date, more than 500 million copies of the software have been distributed.

STEP 1: Download free Adobe Reader software to view and print Adobe PDF files

Adobe® Reader® 6.0 is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms.

STEP 2: Click on PDF link and download PDF to your hard disk

For PC Platforms:

(i) Right-mouse-button-click on the PDF link and choose "Save Target As". A dialogue box will appear allowing you to choose where to save your PDF file to (choose somewhere you can find easily later).

(ii) Click "Save".

(iii) A final dialogue box will appear indicating file size and time remaining for download.

After the PDF file has finished downloading, you can easily find the file (remembering where you saved it) and open it using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

For Macintosh Platforms:

(i) Similar to above procedure for PCs, but instead of a right-mouse-button-click, you click and hold the mouse-button on the PDF link to choose "Download Link to Disk".

(ii) Or by clicking on the PDF link, the Download Manager, may download the PDF file automatically to your computer. The rest of the procedure is as above.

Before downloading you may want to note the file size and estimate the download time using the numbers below.

STEP 3: Estimate download times

The table below is designed to help you estimate download times for Internet files. To estimate download times, multiply the Minutes/Megabyte values (based on Internet device speeds*) by the size of the file in Megabytes.

Note: Many file sizes are listed in Kilobytes. To convert to megabytes, simply move the decimal point 3 spaces to the left. For example, 644 Kilobytes is the same as .644 Megabytes.

Still having problems?

If you are still encountering problems downloading or viewing your PDF files from this site, please email brendan@spiderwebdesigns.com.au or call Brendan Scollary on 0404 492 296.