PDF has undergone a lot of changes and updates, eight in total, corresponding to the number of Adobe Reader versions, with 8.0 being the latest one.Īdobe Reader can be updated in various ways. Nowadays, Adobe Reader is widely used in publishing e-books. They decided to release it for free in order to compete with other formats such as Envoy and Common Ground Digital Paper. Adobe systems designed this software in 1993 although it was hard to make it popular in the beginning. PDF files can be opened on Windows, Linus, and mobile phones. It is a cross-platform software with zero compatibility issues. Adobe Reader is a software designed to view Portable Document Format (PDF).
