Help with PDF files

Many documents on this website are in "Portable Document Format" or PDF.

• Links to PDF files will be illustrated with this icon:

We try to use ordinary web pages for the majority of the content, but sometimes we need to use this other format. Often PDF is a cost-effective way to distribute long reports or documents which may have complex formatting.

To be able to read the content of a PDF document, you will need to use a special reader. Many people already have a reader installed on their computer. We provide a link to the free Adobe Acrobat Reader for your convenience.

Adobe Reader : Download free PDF software"

'Read Out Loud' feature

Adobe Reader includes an option which will read a page or a whole document out loud. Open a document in Reader, then go to the 'View' menu and select from the options available.