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Adobe Reader
The software that displays and prints Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF files). Formerly known as Acrobat Reader, Adobe Reader is available free from the Adobe Web site (www.adobe.com) for Windows,...
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Definition: Adobe Reader
The software that displays and prints Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF files). Formerly known as Acrobat Reader, Adobe Reader is available free from the Adobe Web site (www.adobe.com) for Windows, Mac, OS/2 and various versions of Unix. Since its 1993 introduction, more than 500 million copies of Adobe Reader have been downloaded. See Acrobat.
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