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System requirements

Adobe Reader 8.1.2 system requirements

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® III or equivalent processor
• Microsoft® Windows Vista®; Windows® XP Professional, Home Edition, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2; Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4; Windows 2003 Server
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0, Firefox 1.5 or 2.0, Mozilla 1.7, AOL 9

Macintosh

• PowerPC® G3, G4, G5 or Intel® processor
• Mac OS X v10.4.3 to v10.4.9, v10.5.0 and v10.5.1
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
• 170MB of available hard-disk space
• Safari 2.0.2

Linux

• 32-bit Intel® Pentium® processor or equivalent
• LSB (Linux Standard Base) 3.1 compliant systems including Red Hat Linux WS 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 and Ubuntu 6.10
• GNOME or KDE Desktop Environment
• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• 125 MB of available hard disk space (additional 75 MB required for having all supported font packs)
• GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or higher
• Firefox 1.5 or higher; Mozilla 1.7.3 or higher

Solaris

• UltraSPARC® or UltraSPARC IIIi® processor
• Solaris 9 or 10
• GNOME or KDE Desktop Environment (GNOME only for Solaris 10)
• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• 175 MB of available hard disk space (additional 75 MB required for having all supported font packs)
• GNU C library (glibc) version 2.3 or higher
• GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or higher (On Solaris 10, works with GTK 2.4.9 also)
• Firefox 1.5 or higher; Mozilla 1.7.3 or higher
• OpenGL library
• OpenSSL 0.9.7, OpenLDAP, and CUPS libraries
• libstdc++ library

Adobe Reader 7.1.0 system requirements

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® or equivalent processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition (Service Pack 1 or 2); Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2, 3 or 4); Windows Tablet PC Edition; Windows 2003 Server; Windows NT(Service Pack 6 or 6a)
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
• Up to 90MB of available hard-disk space
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, 6 or 7, Firefox 1.0, 1.5 or 2, Mozilla 1.7, Netscape 7.1 or 8.0

Macintosh

• PowerPC® G3, G4, G5 or Intel® processor
• Mac OS X v10.2.8, 10.3, 10.4 to 10.4.11
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
• 110MB of available hard-disk space
• Safari 1.2.2 browser supported for Mac OS X 10.3 or higher, Safari 2.0.2

Adobe Reader 7.0.9 system requirements

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® or equivalent processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition (Service Pack 1 or 2); Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2, 3 or 4); Windows Tablet PC Edition; Windows 2003 Server; Windows NT (Service Pack 6 or 6a)
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
• Up to 90MB of available hard-disk space
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, 6 or 7, Firefox 1.0, 1.5 or 2, Mozilla 1.7, Netscape 7.1 or 8.0

Macintosh

• PowerPC® G3, G4, G5
• Mac OS X v10.2.8, 10.3, 10.4 to 10.4.8
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
• 110MB of available hard-disk space
• Safari 1.2.2 browser supported for Mac OS X 10.3 or higher, Safari 2.0.2

Linux

• 32-bit Intel Pentium processor
• Red Hat Linux AS 4.0 (2.6); Red Hat Linux ES 4.0 (2.6); Red Hat Linux WS 4.0 (2.6); Red Hat Linux Desktop 4.1,5.0; SUSE Professional 9.2 (2.6.4), 9.3, 10.0; or Novell Linux Desktop 9.x (2.6.4); Mandriva 10.1; Red Flag Linux Desktop 4.1, 5.0; Turbolinux 10s (2.6)
• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Up to 125 MB of available hard-disk space
• GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.4 or higher
• Mozilla 1.73 or higher, Firefox 1.0 or higher

AIX

• RISC, IBM P510 Processor
• AIX 5.2, 5.3; AIX 5.3 (OS Level 3 or above) users would require a workaround
• Desktop Environment: CDE ; GNOME 2.x
• 512 MB of RAM (1024 MB recommended)
• Up to 325 MB of available hard-disk space
• Firefox 1.0 or higher; Mozilla 1.73 or higher

HP-UX

• PA-8800 Processor
• HP-UX 11, 11i v1, 11i v2. HP-UX 11 users - GTK+ libraries 2.6.8 [required]
• Desktop Environment: CDE
• 512 MB of RAM (1024 MB recommended)
• Up to 330 MB of available hard-disk space
• Firefox 1.0 or higher; Mozilla 1.73 or higher

Solaris

• UltraSPARC or UltraSPARC IIIi processor
• Solaris 8, 9, or 10
• Desktop Environment: GNOME 2.x; KDE 3.3
• 512 MB of RAM (1024 MB recommended)
• Up to 175 MB of available hard-disk space
• Firefox 1.0 or higher, Mozilla 1.73 or higher

Adobe Reader for Palm OS version 3.0 system requirements

Windows

• Intel Pentium processor
• Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
• 16MB of RAM
• 20MB of available hard-disk space
• Palm OS 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, or 5.0; Palm Desktop 4.0 or 4.01
• 600KB of free space on Palm OS device

Macintosh

• PowerPC processor
• Mac OS X v.10.2
• 16MB of RAM
• 20MB of available hard-disk space
• Palm OS 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, or 5.0; Palm Desktop 4.0
• 600KB of free space on Palm OS device

Adobe Reader for Pocket PC version 2.0 system requirements

Windows

• Handheld: Pocket PC 2002 or Windows Mobile 2003 (Update 2)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 (all versions) or Windows XP (Professional or Home Edition)
• 64MB of RAM
• 16MB of hard-disk space
• Microsoft ActiveSync 3.5 or later

Adobe Reader LE version 1.0 system requirements

Windows

• Intel Pentium processor
• Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT, or Windows XP
• 64MB of RAM
• Nokia 6680 Smartphone with 16MB of RAM
• Nokia PC Suite 6.4

Adobe Reader for Symbian OS version 1.1 system requirements

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® or equivalent processor
• Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT, or Windows XP
• 64MB of RAM
• Version 1.1: Nokia Communicator 9500 with 80MB of RAM
• Version 1.0: Nokia Communicator 9210 or 9290 with 16MB of RAM
• Nokia PC Suite (View details.)

Adobe Reader for Symbian OS requires 1.6MB of space on the Symbian OS device (installation requires an additional 800KB of space).

Adobe Reader 6.0.1 system requirements

Windows

• Intel Pentium processor
• Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2, Windows XP Professional or Home Edition, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
• 32MB of RAM (64MB recommended)
• 60MB of available hard-disk space
• Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, 6.0, or 6.1

Macintosh

• PowerPC G3 processor
• Mac OS X v.10.2.2–10.3
• 32MB of RAM with virtual memory on (64MB recommended)
• 30MB of available hard-disk space (an additional 60MB is needed temporarily during installation)
• HFS formatted hard drive
• Additional 70MB of hard-disk space for Asian fonts (optional)
• 70MB of available hard-disk space