Adobe Acrobat Reader

June 24th, 2002

I was reading on a site a couple of hours ago and it was talking about how Adobe Acrobat Reader was a third party software. Someone told me how 3rd party programs are like programs that can run in the background and do other things windows cannot do, like disable display properties and such things like that. The question im asking is, why do they call Adobe Acrobat Reader a 3rd party software and what does it do? I never use it?

**Hipster Doofus** · June 24th, 2002

You'll find you'll need it sooner or later. It reads .pdf files & a lot of things now come in .pdf format. Manuals & that type of thing that you will need to read.

June 24th, 2002

Ohhh so kinda like getting a cell phone manual, car manual, and vcr manuals, things like that I would get from the internet?

**Lonman** · June 24th, 2002

Yep, and because windows doesn't have 'resident' capablity to read the .pdf format, you need third party support (Acrobat Reader).

June 24th, 2002

Great now I know about Acrobat Reader, thanks.

**Hipster Doofus** · June 24th, 2002

Possibly. I was thinking more sound card, graphics, computer things but yes those things as well. It's a bit like a word document. (doc files)

June 24th, 2002

Ahhh another question came to my mind. Could I type something in Acrobat Reader?? and how i dont see New under file and when i typed it, would it be in .pdf format?

**Lonman** · June 24th, 2002

You can't create .pdf files with the free program 'Adobe Acrobat Reader.' You need 'Adobe Acrobat' to do that.

August 21st, 2002

Is there a specific version of 'Adobe Acrobat' for xp.
I had problems with the distiller/writer. Installation goes through with no errors. However the "acrobat printer" is not added.

any suggestions?

June 24th, 2002	Top \| #1
AaronMcarthur Unregistered Posts: n/a	Adobe Acrobat Reader I was reading on a site a couple of hours ago and it was talking about how Adobe Acrobat Reader was a third party software. Someone told me how 3rd party programs are like programs that can run in the background and do other things windows cannot do, like disable display properties and such things like that. The question im asking is, why do they call Adobe Acrobat Reader a 3rd party software and what does it do? I never use it?

June 24th, 2002	Top \| #2
Hipster Doofus Good grief Charlie Brown Joined: May 2002 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 5,920 Reputation: 560 Power: 183	You'll find you'll need it sooner or later. It reads .pdf files & a lot of things now come in .pdf format. Manuals & that type of thing that you will need to read. Pentium 4 2.6ghz 400mhz @ 3.07ghz 472mhz / Gigabyte GA-8IHXP v2.1 / RAMBUS PC 800 768mb / Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256mb / 2 x Maxtor 80gb ATA133 DiamondMax, RAID0 :: 1 x Western Digital 7200 40gb / Liteon DVD-RW Dual Layer SOHW-1633S @ 1653S / Liteon 52x24x52 CD-RW LTR-52246S / Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Fan / Antec TruePower 480w / RD3XP Gladiator Rounded Cables

June 24th, 2002	Top \| #6
Hipster Doofus Good grief Charlie Brown Joined: May 2002 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 5,920 Reputation: 560 Power: 183	Possibly. I was thinking more sound card, graphics, computer things but yes those things as well. It's a bit like a word document. (doc files) Pentium 4 2.6ghz 400mhz @ 3.07ghz 472mhz / Gigabyte GA-8IHXP v2.1 / RAMBUS PC 800 768mb / Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256mb / 2 x Maxtor 80gb ATA133 DiamondMax, RAID0 :: 1 x Western Digital 7200 40gb / Liteon DVD-RW Dual Layer SOHW-1633S @ 1653S / Liteon 52x24x52 CD-RW LTR-52246S / Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Fan / Antec TruePower 480w / RD3XP Gladiator Rounded Cables

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June 24th, 2002	Top \| #3
AaronMcarthur Unregistered Posts: n/a	Ohhh so kinda like getting a cell phone manual, car manual, and vcr manuals, things like that I would get from the internet?

June 24th, 2002	Top \| #4
Lonman Bleh! Joined: December 2001 Posts: 2,642 Reputation: 60 Power: 151	Yep, and because windows doesn't have 'resident' capablity to read the .pdf format, you need third party support (Acrobat Reader).

June 24th, 2002	Top \| #5
AaronMcarthur Unregistered Posts: n/a	Great now I know about Acrobat Reader, thanks.

June 24th, 2002	Top \| #7
AaronMcarthur Unregistered Posts: n/a	Ahhh another question came to my mind. Could I type something in Acrobat Reader?? and how i dont see New under file and when i typed it, would it be in .pdf format?

June 24th, 2002	Top \| #8
Lonman Bleh! Joined: December 2001 Posts: 2,642 Reputation: 60 Power: 151	You can't create .pdf files with the free program 'Adobe Acrobat Reader.' You need 'Adobe Acrobat' to do that.

August 21st, 2002	Top \| #9
caribchief Unregistered Posts: n/a	Is there a specific version of 'Adobe Acrobat' for xp. I had problems with the distiller/writer. Installation goes through with no errors. However the "acrobat printer" is not added. any suggestions?