Create PDF Documents for the Internet

If you design websites, you can use PDF documents in a variety of effective ways. For example, you can create a product catalog, create interactive PDF tutorials, create PDF forms, and publish a manual, all in PDF format. The website visitor can choose to view the document in the web browser or download the complete file for future viewing. Most popular web browsers support Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X as plug-ins or helper applications. Figure 1-4 shows a published document as displayed in Internet Explorer. Note that the figure shows a document displayed in the plug-in version of Acrobat X Pro, not Adobe Reader X.

FIGURE 1-4 Acrobat also serves as an Internet Explorer plug-in that enables you to view PDFs from websites.