About Adobe PDF Files

In order to serve you better, the Dakota Prairie Grasslands site uses PDF technology. We mark PDF files in our site with this icon:

The PDF file format allows us to save offical documents, announcements, maps and brochures into one common format that is downloadable by anyone. This format can be viewed within your browser, or for best results, printed out on your home printer. Any printout that you make using our PDF files will look exactly like our originals! It's like we mailed you the documents directly, except that you didn't have to wait for our delays and the mail! You can save the PDF file to your computer for later viewing, and you can print as many copies as you want.

PDF does have one requirement: viewer/plug-in software. This software allows your browser to be able to "understand" PDF; without it your browser wouldn't know PDF from Smokey Bear!

That brings us to another reason for using PDF: the viewer/plug-in software is FREE, and may even be on your computer already! Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 will run on even older Windows machines, while the most recent version (5.0) offers full flexibility and power on modern computers. To download the software now, go to the Adobe Acrobat Reader site.

We'd like what you have to say regarding our use of PDF! Please go to our Make a Comment page and give us your feedback on how we can make this technology work better for you. Thanks!

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