The free Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to view, navigate, and print PDF files across all major computing platforms. Acrobat Reader is the free viewing companion to Adobe Acrobat 3.0 and to Acrobat Capture(R) software.

Acrobat 3.0 offers integrated viewing of PDF files directly within the leading Web browsers, including Netscape Navigator 3.0 or greater and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or greater. Rather than waiting 5 or more minutes for an entire PDF document to download, this feature enables page-at-a-time downloading for incredibly fast display of PDF files.

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Once you have the Acrobat Reader installed on your machine, copy the "PDFViewer" plug-in (from the "Web Browser Plug-in folder" located in the downloaded Adobe Acrobat 3.0 folder) to the "Plug-Ins" folder of your browser. Then, check your browser's preferences to ensure that it is configured as follows:

Netscape 3.0 or greater
• In the "Options Menu," click "General Preferences."
• Click the "Helpers" tab.
• Double click on the helper named "Portable Document Format" or "PDF."
• The "MIME Type" should be: "application/pdf."
  The "Suffix" should be: "pdf."
  "Handled By" should be: "Plug-in: PDFViewer"
• Click "OK," and then click "Apply."

Explorer 3.0 or greater
• Click "Preferences."
• Click the "Helpers" tab.
• Double click on the helper named "Portable Document Format" or "PDF."
• The "MIME Type" should be: "application/pdf."
  The "Suffix" should be: "pdf."
  "How to Handle" should be: "Use Helper Application."
  "Helper Application" should be: "PDFViewer" plug-in.
• Click "OK."