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Adobe Reader Electronic Books

Electronic documents display on-screen exactly like the printed version. You can turn the pages, zoom, print them, search for a word, and view multiple pages at once. Adobe Reader documents can also have links so that a click on a word takes you to another part of the book. They can also contain sounds and movies that are activated by a mouse click!

Adobe Systems is the oldest big player in the electronic publishing industry and its eBook Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader) has spawned a worldwide industry. Almost all computers sold have Adobe Reader preinstalled. Millions of Adobe Reader format books are available. Since the filenames of these books have a PDF extension ( e.g. mybook.pdf) Adobe Reader eBooks are commonly called PDF files or just PDFs. PDF is an acronym for Portable Document Format.

Printing Books You Have Purchased at Digitalfire

Getting a Printed Copy of an eBook

There are thousands of companies that can create a paper version of an eBook if you give them a CD, email it to them or tell them where to find it on the web. Many companies will print in quantities of one and ship it in the mail. The price of having this done is normally less and sometimes much less than buying a new book.

An Example: The INSIGHT Instruction Manual This book is in 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 in format. It can be found on the web at http://digitalfire.com/ins/INSIGHTManual.PDF. To have this printed you need to tell them to get it from this URL. This eBook is stored on our site and it is free to anyone who wants it. There is likely a print shop in your neighborhood that can print and bind a book for you. If not, you can find a printer in your area on the partner page at Adobe.com. A Print Service Provider Example To the right is the home page for http://printfu.org This page has a "How much will it cost?" calculator where you tell it the number of pages (not shown). You can use the Browse and Upload PDF buttons to send it the eBook from your computer or the Get PDF button to give it a URL where the book can be found.

More Information

• Click here for the Digitalfire interactive graphical and audio presentation on how to download and install Adobe Reader
• Adobe Systems - Maker of Adobe Reader, download the free reader here
• PDF Zone - Adobe Reader Electronic Document Developments
• PlanetPDF - Independent PDF news, tools, plug-ins

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Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems is the company that invented Postscript, the page description language that is the magic behind the desktop publishing and font industry. The same postscript file can be sent to a $500 dollar postscript inkjet printer or a $100,000 typesetter and will render exactly the same (except for resolution). Adobe Reader technology brings this same uniformity to the video monitors of a variety of computers. Adobe supplies free viewers for Unix, Windows, Macintosh, and others so that each will display a book exactly the same as the printed version.

• Acrobat is the software standard for electronic books
• The same document file is readable by Windows, Mac, UNIX, and others
• Adobe Reader software is free
• Adobe Reader books can  be distributed on diskette, CD, or via the Internet
• Documents display graphics and fonts exactly as the paper document and in many cases graphics are zoomable to better clarity than is possible on paper
• Documents are searchable, have clickable links, print with fidelity to the original, use color at no extra cost
• Adobe Reader documents are easily updated and supported and they can be password protected
• The existence of an Adobe Reader version of a book generally enhances the sales of paper editions and it penetrates into markets that paper books do not.

Installing Adobe Reader

Using Adobe Reader

Open the PDF file and use the buttons at the top of the screen to turn the pages, zoom in and out, search for a word, go to a page number, etc. You can set the left side of the window to display a clickable Table of Contents or page thumbnails, or you can have Adobe Reader use the entire window to display the pages. Choose Print from the File menu to produce high quality output of any range of pages. Click on an item in the Table of Contents or page number in the Index to go to the referenced page. Open the Adobe Reader help manual in the Adobe Reader directory or folder for more information. The program is easy to learn and you will keep discovering tricks for weeks. We recommend you get ver 3.0 as soon as you can, it antialiases the text, can display up to four pages at once, and can print the entire INSIGHT manual to a postscript printer in 10 seconds on a Pentium!

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