Adobe Acrobat

I’m sure many of you have heard of Adobe Acrobat as a de facto standard format for accurate document display and printing. The .pdf (portable document format) is quite prevalent in both publishing and Web delivery of documents. Most importantly, almost any file format that can be printed can be converted to Acrobat format. The document format is read by the Adobe Acrobat Reader and the corresponding Web plug-in.

The reason I am excited about the Acrobat format in the context of mLearning is that we currently have free Adobe Acrobat Readers for both the PalmOS and the PocketPC. With a simple reformatting, conversion, and synchronization process, it is possible to bring critical documents with you on your mobile devices. This means ...

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