Adobe Acrobat Reader
The Adobe Acrobat Reader is a navigator for platform-independent Portable Document Format (PDF) files. PDF files are PostScript files that are compiled in such a way that they are navigable almost like Web pages. Audio and video can be embedded within PDF files, making them multimedia as well. Numerous programs can output PDF files from their documents (programs from Adobe in particular, such as FrameMaker and PageMaker), but the main source of these multimedia documents is Adobe Acrobat itself.
The main Adobe Acrobat software is not free, nor is it currently available for Linux. The reader software, however, is available for Linux free of charge from Adobe's Web site:
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