Budget Updates, hot off the PRESS!PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It is a universal file format that displays the fonts, images, graphics and layout of a document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it.
It ensures that a document on screen will look exactly the same when printed out. Downloading a document in this way saves time, money and resources because there is no delay while you wait for the document to be posted out to you and Government Departments do not need to print such large quantities of documents.
in order to view and print a PDF document, you will need to find the free PDF viewer on the Adobe website. However most computers come with the free Adobe Reader software as standard.