Hi, PDF stands for Portable Document Format. You'll find a lot of ebooks, documents, and other written materials that are saved as a PDF file. PDF is used by businesses a lot. Once a form is created and saved on a computer as a PDF document, they can be certain that those who receive the PDF file and print it out, that the format of the document will be unchanged and an exact duplicate. eBooks often use PDF as well. For the most part, Jaws works very well with PDF files. Adobe, the makers of PDF, have done a great job of making their PDF standard very accessible. Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: Dreamer To: JFW Free List Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 8:41 PM Subject: PDF question Hi friends Excuse my ignorance, but What does PDF stand for and how or why might I want to use it? Brian