Advantages of PDF Documents

Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files are readily accessible on most computers. All that is required to view PDF files is the free Adobe Reader.

Converting your Microsoft Word document to PDF

• preserves the layout and fonts
• includes hyperlinks
• embeds images into the resulting file

Yale has a site license for Adobe Acrobat. Download it from the software site for either the Windows or Mac platform. Go to http://www.yale.edu/software/adobe (link opens in new browser window) and follow directions for installation.

To convert Word documents to PDF: Windows or MacIntosh.