Using PDFs

What's a PDF?

PDF is the abbreviation of "Portable Document Format", and is a special format for viewing and printing documents which have been downloaded from the Web.

How do I open a PDF?

Some of the documents available on The Children's Mutual website are in PDF format. If the PDF documents do not open when you click on them, it may be because you do not have Adobe® Reader® software installed on your computer. Adobe Reader is available free and it's easy to install. Once installed, it will enable your computer to read PDF documents whenever you need to. Click on the link below to download Adobe Reader:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Using Screen readers and PDFs

All new PDF documents are created with Adobe Acrobat Version 8.0 and should be accessible to new screen readers. Visitors using screen-reading devices generally cannot directly read documents in PDF format.

An alternative means of reading PDFs – converting the PDF to HTML

By converting a PDF into HTML, it can be read or printed from the screen as plain text without having to use Adobe Reader. To convert a PDF, copy its URL and paste it into the text box in this website:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html