Getting Adobe Reader

• The basic version of Adobe Reader is freeware, downloadable from the Adobe website (see Resources). To edit PDF documents, you must purchase the full version of Adobe Acrobat.
  
  

System Requirements for Windows

• The following are the minimum system requirements needed to install Adobe Reader on the Windows platform.
  Processor: Intel 1.3 GHz
  Operating-system version: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Windows XP or Windows Vista
  RAM: 128MB (256MB recommended)
  Available hard-drive space: 335 MB
  Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x or higher or Firefox 2.0 or higher.
  
  

System Requirements for Linux

• The following are the minimum system requirements to install Adobe Reader on a system running Linux:
  Processor: 32-bit Intel Pentium processor or equivalent
  Operating system: Red Hat Linux WS 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 SP2 or Ubuntu 7.10
  Desktop environment: GNOME or KDE
  RAM: 512 MB (1GB recommended)
  Available hard-drive space: 150 MB (additional 75 MB required for supported font packs)
  Libraries: GTK or higher (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or higher and openLDAP and CUPS libraries
  Browser: Firefox 2.0 or higher
  
  

System Requirements for Macintosh

• The following are the minimum system requirements needed to install Adobe Reader on a Macintosh system:
  Processor: PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel processor
  Operating system: Mac OS X version 10.4.11+
  RAM: 128MB (256MB recommended)
  Available hard-drive space: 405 MB
  Browser: Safari 2.0.4 or higher
  
  

System Requirements for Solaris

• The following are the minimum system requirements needed to install Adobe Reader on the Solaris platform.
  Processor: 32-bit Intel Pentium processor or equivalent
  Operating system: Solaris 10 u5 or OpenSolaris 2008.11
  Desktop environment: GNOME or KDE (GNOME only for Solaris 10)
  RAM: 512 MB (1GB recommended)
  Available hard-drive space: 200 MB (additional 75 MB required for supported font packs)
  Libraries: GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or higher (on Solaris 10; also works with GTK 2.4.9) and openLDAP and CUPS libraries
  Browser: Firefox 2.0 or higher
  
  

Additional Platforms

• Adobe Reader (version 7.0.9 only) supports AIX and HP-UX. For system requirements on these operating systems and on system requirements for mobile devices, refer to the link in Resources.