"Adobe® Acrobat® is the essential tool for universal document exchange.  With Acrobat, you can convert virtually any document from any application to the compact, searchable Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).  Documents in Adobe PDF preserve the exact look and content of the originals, complete with fonts and graphics, and can be printed, distributed by e-mail, and shared and stored on the Web, an intranet, a file system, or a CD-ROM for other users to view on the Microsoft® Windows®, Mac OS, and UNIX® platforms.  Plus, collaboration is easy because you and others can add comments, approve documents with digital signatures, and more, all within a Web browser."

PDF is the universal standard on the internet.  Although it in some cases increases the file sizes of the original Word, Powerpoint or Excel files, we decided that it is a small price to pay.

Note, however, that for all PDF documents on this site that we created ourselves, we disabled the feature that allows for editing to ensure the integrity of the original documents.