| Advances in the business world in recent years have caused many companies to rethink how they handle the sharing of information. With the invention of e-mail, our lives have changed dramatically. No longer must we wait for a reply to arrive in the mail or by courier. Replies can be instantaneous: the sender clicks the Send button and off goes the message! But we still tend to print, fax, and courier documents unnecessarily. The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) provides a way to maintain the original intent of your document on any recipient’s computer screen or printer. It enhances this with the capability to secure, electronically mark-up, and even digitally sign PDF files.
The speed and efficiency gained by adding the PDF format to the office workflow have greatly increased our ability to share information. PDF provides a common file format for transferring documents among a wide audience. It eliminates the concerns about working on different computer platforms, because the Acrobat Reader used to view and print PDF files is available on more than one dozen computer platforms. PDF also eliminates concerns of having the same software used to create a document because virtually any electronic or paper file can be converted to PDF. Advantages of PDF include smaller file size for easy e-mailing and a universal format—regardless of the application used to create the original file. In other words, your clients can view the PDF documents you created, whether you used Microsoft Word, Adobe PageMaker, or QuarkXpress to create the original file; they simply have to download the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe’s Web site, and they are up and running.
Each year, more and more people are learning about the many benefits of using Adobe Acrobat and its PDF file format. PDF documents are used in every corner of the world, by all types of businesses, for every imaginable use. Contracts and legal documents are sent in PDF format as e-mail attachments where they can be marked-up and digitally signed, brochures are saved as PDF files for use on the World Wide Web where they can be secured against modifications, and documents used for high-end printing and saved in PDF format provide a single high-quality file to transfer to a commercial printer.
Whether you are looking to make your electronic files more accessible, convert paper documents to digital files, or improve your workflow by allowing on-line document review across many computer platforms, Acrobat provides a solution for you. |
