With free Adobe Acrobat Reader software, you can view and print PDF files across a broad range of hardware and operating systems.

Features new to Adobe Acrobat Reader in version 5.1 are:

• Document Rights: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 contains some features that are available only when you open PDF documents with additional usage rights. These features include Save Document, Advanced Form features, Comments, and Digital Signatures. Creators of PDF documents determine which additional usage rights are available.

• Digital Signature Validation: If someone sends you a PDF document with a digital signature, you can view, print, and validate the signature in Acrobat Reader.

• View Attachments: If the author of the PDF document attached files or multimedia clips, you can open these attachments in Acrobat Reader.

• E-mail PDF files: You can send an e-mail message from Acrobat Reader that includes the open PDF document as an attachment.

Comparison of the free Acrobat Reader v. 5.1 with Acrobat 5.0 and Acrobat Approval.

	Acrobat Reader 5.1	Acrobat Approval 5.0	Acrobat 5.0
View and print PDFs	Y	Y	Y
Fill in and submit PDF forms	Y	Y	Y
Secure documents to prevent changes, or add a password		Y	Y
Apply e-signatures to PDF forms for approval	*	Y	Y
Save e-forms locally	*	Y	Y
Spell-check PDF forms	-	Y	Y
Create dynamic, intelligent, interactive PDF forms	-	-	Y
Add sticky notes and other electronic comments within your Web browser	*	-	Y
Convert Web pages to PDF files with all links intact for offline viewing	-	-	Y
Easily convert any document to PDF, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) documents	-	-	Y
Create reflowable, tagged PDF files for viewing with Acrobat Reader for handheld devices	-	-	Y

*Feature can be made available if the creator/distributor of the PDF gives the user the appropriate usage rights.

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