Portable Document Format (PDF) Help

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

Viewing and downloading speeds will vary depending on your connection. If you are connected via a Cable Modem or better (e.g., DSL, T1), viewing or downloading PDFs will be relatively fast. If you are connected via a dial-up connection, it will take approximately 20 seconds per 100 KB to view or download at a 56 KB connection."

To view a PDF file: 

• You must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your computer.  To download a free copy of the software, click on the logo below:

• Once you have the Reader installed, simply click on the link for the PDF file and the document will open up in Adobe Acrobat Reader within your browser.

To download a PDF file to your computer to view offline:

• Click on the link - this opens the document in your browser.

• Click on the Save button (it looks like a small disk).  

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• To download the file without opening the document, Right click on the link and choose the option: 'save target as' or 'save link as' depending on which type of browser you are using.

To print a PDF file:

• While in Adobe Acrobat Reader, use the print dialog box to print the whole document or any selected pages within the document.