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Adobe PDF documents

The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) was developed by the Adobe company to provide a universal file format that preserves the fonts, formatting and graphics of a source document, regardless of what platform or application was used to create it. PDF files can be shared, viewed and printed by anyone with a free Adobe Acrobat Reader. We’ve provided this basic primer on PDFs because many Finale users want to create PDFs: to publish on the Web, to E-mail to a friend, to give to publishers for further formatting, or to give to a print shop for printing. In order to *create* PDFs, you will need to buy Adobe Acrobat. For more information about these products, please visit Adobe’s website at www.adobe.com.

In addition to Adobe Acrobat, third party products such as PDF995 (www.pdf995.com) are also capable of generating PDF files.

 

To create a PDF document from a Finale file

Troubleshooting PDF documents

 

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