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                <div><p>Portable Document Format (PDF) is a universal file format
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<div class="tablenoborder"><table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"><thead align="left"><tr><th valign="top" width="NaN%" id="d16e41616"><p>Common problem</p>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e41616 "><p>Recipients can't open files because they
don't have the applications used to create the files.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e41619 "><p>Anyone, anywhere can open a PDF. All you
need is the free Adobe Reader software.</p>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e41616 "><p>Combined paper and electronic archives are
difficult to search, take up space, and require the application
in which a document was created.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e41619 "><p>PDFs are compact and fully searchable, and
can be accessed at any time using Reader. Links make PDFs easy to
navigate.</p>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e41616 "><p>Documents appear incorrectly on handheld
devices.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e41619 "><p>Tagged PDFs allow text to reflow for display
on mobile platforms such as Palm OS®, Symbian™, and Pocket PC® devices.</p>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e41616 "><p>Documents with complex formatting are not
accessible to visually impaired readers.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e41619 "><p>Tagged PDFs contain information on content
and structure, which makes them accessible on-screen readers.</p>
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