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From: Hayman, Douglass
Date: Apr 24, 2025 9:09AM

David,

Acrobat Reader is free and available at adobe.com. They change their website all the time over the years so you'd have to go to their site and look around. Watch when doing the install as they sometimes bundle in some trial version of an antivirus program that you likely don't want to suddenly have running on your machine.

As for the view your seeing in the long document, there is the ability when a creator of a PDF is saving it to pick what the initial view will be upon opening the document. I see that as an option after looking at the properties for a file within Acrobat Pro but do not see that same tab in the properties for Acrobat Reader.

My experience has been that Acrobat's export to Word or text file can create a mangled mess so don't assume that you messed up if the exported file is a mess. Others on this list may have better guidance on this point.

Doug Hayman
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology
Olympic College
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