Adobe Reader – view PDFs

Last Updated on August 22, 2023

Adobe Reader lets you open, view, search, digitally sign, verify, and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

With Adobe’s LiveCycle server software, Reader also lets individuals participate in business processes and interact with many types of content more securely, both on- and off-line, inside and outside the firewall.

To date, more than 500 million copies of Adobe Reader have been distributed worldwide on 23 platforms (including Linux) and in 26 languages.

Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.

Features include:

• Real-time zooming and panning.
• Advanced collaboration tools such as document review participation.
• View encrypted and signed PDFs,and assemble documents from multiple sources
• 3D features – interact with 3D models created in professional 3D CAD (Computer Aided Design) or 3D modeling programs.
• Support for multmedia enabled PDF documents.
• Orca accessibility support.
• Read Out Loud – When you use Read Out Loud, Adobe Reader will read text aloud from form fields and other text.
• Display and share Adobe Photoshop Album slide shows and electronic cards, and export images for online photo processing.
• Search the Web from Adobe Reader using Yahoo! search.
• JavaScript support.
• Support for a wide variety of languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, and Vietnamese text.

Website: get.adobe.com/reader
Support: Forums
Developer: Chris Cannam, D. Michael McIntyre, and Heikki Junes
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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