Acrobat Acrobat PDF files are widely used for all sorts of things from instruction manuals to tax forms. On this web site, they are used for newsletters and for other documents such as details of how to get to our meeting place. To read Acrobat documents, you need to have Adobe Acrobat reader on your computer. You can download Adobe Acrobat reader free by clicking on this link.

Recent versions of Acrobat Reader are quite large files (about 27 Megabytes for Version 7 or 16 Megabytes for Version 6) so it will take quite a long time to download on a dial-up Internet connection with a 56k modem (about an hour and a half for version 7 or an hour for version 6).

Note that if you are using a computer at work, security settings may not allow users to open documents on external web sites. 

You may not need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader as you may already have it on a CD-ROM that came with something like a scanner or digital camera or on a free CD-ROM with a magazine or from an Internet service provider, etc.

If installing Acrobat Reader from a CD-ROM, it is advisable to take care to install only Acrobat Reader and not something else that you may not want. The Acrobat Reader that you find on a CD-ROM may be an earlier version such as Version 4 or 5. Although some PDF documents can only be read with the latest version of Acrobat, Reader, version 4 or 5 should be OK for everything on this web site and many others. Earlier versions of Acrobat Reader also have the advantage that they may run noticeably faster on an older computer.