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From: David Russell
Date: Apr 24, 2025 9:47AM

Hello Doug,

Thanks for your observations concerning Acrobat Adobe Reader.
The party in question has agreed to offer me an MS Word version instead,
next week.
I will google mean time to see the difference between Adobe Acrobat DC,
Pro, and the Reader that came on my computer for PDF, but have a hunch that
may be bundled in MS Word 2019.

Thanks again.
truly appreciated,

David Russell
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM Hayman, Douglass via WebAIM-Forum <
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> 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
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> (360) 475-7632
>
>
>