Adobe Acrobat5

[Flick]

I have found a programme called Adobe Acrobat5 and wondered if someone could tell me about it and what it is useful for?

[SpyMaster]

flick said:

I have found a programme called Adobe Acrobat5 and wondered if someone could tell me about it and what it is useful for?

It's used for reading PDF documents.

From wikipedia

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. A PDF file can describe documents containing any combination of text, graphics, and images in a device independent and resolution independent format. These documents can be one page or thousands of pages, very simple or extremely complex with a rich use of fonts, graphics, colour, and images. PDF is an open standard, and anyone may write applications that can read or write PDFs royalty-free.

In addition to encapsulating text and graphics, PDF files are most appropriate for encoding the exact look of a document in a device-independent way. In contrast, markup languages such as HTML defer many display decisions to a rendering device such as a browser, and will not look the same on different computers.

Hope that answers your question ;D

[Flick]

Wow! Technical explanation, but I think I understood it. So can I use it for creating banners, or do I have to stick to paint?

[SpyMaster]

flick said:

Wow! Technical explanation, but I think I understood it. So can I use it for creating banners, or do I have to stick to paint?

It's not a graphic creator program, it's a reader. It can only read PDF documents.

However, paint isn't the only graphics program out there. There are numerous free programs or there are trial versions of paid for ones. I'm cheap so I do month here and a month there of using trials of paid for software. Maybe one day I'll actually buy one.

[Flick]

;D Nice one!
For now then, I'll have to stick to paint.