We recently wrote about Version 5.0 of Adobe Acrobat, the suite of tools published by Adobe Systems to deal with Adobe’s Portable Document Format standards. PDF files are becoming ever more useful for lawyers for dealing with government forms on the Web, sending a contract as an e-mail attachment, creating electronic court filings or archiving old documents.
Although it is possible to read a PDF file with Acrobat Reader — a free program available for the Apple Computer Macintosh, computers using Microsoft Windows and UNIX-based computers — to create a PDF file, you need Acrobat itself or some third-party alternative. The last couple of iterations of Corel’s WordPerfect, for example, has featured the ability to “publish” a file in PDF.
