What Is Needed by AdobeReader?

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By Phaedra Krizo
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Adobe Reader is an application created by Adobe Systems designed to share electronic documents. It is used to open a read-only version of any PDF file, including those downloaded from websites. Adobe Reader can be used to view, search, digitally sign, save and print PDF documents. The following outlines what is needed to download and install Adobe Reader 9 on the most commonly used operating systems.

Getting Adobe Reader

The basic version of Adobe Reader is freeware, downloadable from the Adobe website (see Resources). To edit PDF documents, you must purchase the full version of Adobe Acrobat.

System Requirements for Windows

The following are the minimum system requirements needed to install Adobe Reader on the Windows platform.
Processor: Intel 1.3 GHz
Operating-system version: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Windows XP or Windows Vista
RAM: 128MB (256MB recommended)
Available hard-drive space: 335 MB
Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x or higher or Firefox 2.0 or higher.

System Requirements for Linux

The following are the minimum system requirements to install Adobe Reader on a system running Linux:
Processor: 32-bit Intel Pentium processor or equivalent
Operating system: Red Hat Linux WS 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 SP2 or Ubuntu 7.10
Desktop environment: GNOME or KDE
RAM: 512 MB (1GB recommended)
Available hard-drive space: 150 MB (additional 75 MB required for supported font packs)
Libraries: GTK or higher (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or higher and openLDAP and CUPS libraries
Browser: Firefox 2.0 or higher

System Requirements for Macintosh

The following are the minimum system requirements needed to install Adobe Reader on a Macintosh system:
Processor: PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel processor
Operating system: Mac OS X version 10.4.11+
RAM: 128MB (256MB recommended)
Available hard-drive space: 405 MB
Browser: Safari 2.0.4 or higher

System Requirements for Solaris

The following are the minimum system requirements needed to install Adobe Reader on the Solaris platform.
Processor: 32-bit Intel Pentium processor or equivalent
Operating system: Solaris 10 u5 or OpenSolaris 2008.11
Desktop environment: GNOME or KDE (GNOME only for Solaris 10)
RAM: 512 MB (1GB recommended)
Available hard-drive space: 200 MB (additional 75 MB required for supported font packs)
Libraries: GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or higher (on Solaris 10; also works with GTK 2.4.9) and openLDAP and CUPS libraries
Browser: Firefox 2.0 or higher

Additional Platforms

Adobe Reader (version 7.0.9 only) supports AIX and HP-UX. For system requirements on these operating systems and on system requirements for mobile devices, refer to the link in Resources.