Adobe Reader LE
Extending Adobe PDF technology to the mobile environment
What Is Adobe Reader LE?
Invented by Adobe Systems and continuously improved over 15 years, Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) lets users capture and view robust information — from any application, on any computer system — and share it with anyone around the world. Over 500 million copies of the desktop version of Adobe Reader® software have been downloaded worldwide; individuals, businesses, and government agencies everywhere trust and rely on Adobe PDF to communicate their ideas and vision.
Adobe Reader LE extends Adobe PDF software to mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Mobile users can now reliably view rich, high-impact, more secure content on a variety of devices, including handsets from Nokia, NTT DoCoMo and other leading manufacturers, car navigation systems, printers, eBook devices, and more.
Reasons to put Adobe Reader LE on a handset or consumer electronics device
- Viewing and navigating rich PDF content on a device provides a great user experience.
- Adobe Reader LE enables you to access the same PDF files you view on your desktop anytime, anywhere, without conversion.
- The application offers superior performance, including quick rendering and navigation.
- Adobe Reader LE is suitable for devices with a small footprint and low memory.
- PDF usage drives ARPU for operators.
- Cross-platform portability enables faster time-to-market.
- It's reliable, extensible, and offers many advanced security features.
Getting Reader LE on your device
Adobe Reader LE is licensed by leading mobile phone and consumer electronics manufacturers for preinstallation on the devices. The software development kit (SDK) contains a set of C++ application programming interfaces (APIs), full source code, sample application, and documentation, along with a testing and verification framework. Developers can use this SDK to build PDF viewing applications optimized for mobile devices.
OEMs
Mobile phone or consumer electronics device manufacturers interested in licensing the Adobe Reader LE SDK for preinstallation should fill out the License Request Form. The Adobe Reader LE SDK includes reference implementation on Symbian OS™ and Windows® XP. OEMs have also successfully ported Reader LE to Linux® and Windows Mobile®.
End users
Read the FAQ to find out if Adobe Reader LE is preinstalled on your mobile phone. Visit the Adobe Reader LE support forum
Key features
- Robust PDF rendering — Enables accurate rendering of any arbitrary PDF document
- Zoom — Supports zooming in/out to improve the legibility of PDF content on small screens
- Scroll —Provides navigation capabilities with up/down/left/right scrolling in PDF documents
- Page rotation — Supports rotation of the PDF content (display only) in 90-degree increments
- Smooth shading, transparencies — Supports transparencies and smooth shading contained in PDF documents
- Text search — Supports basic text search in PDF documents
- Links — Supports intra-document links contained in PDF documents for quick navigation
- Bookmarks — Supports bookmarks contained in PDF documents for quick navigation
- Encryption — Supports decryption of files with up to 128-bit encryption
- Web-optimized PDF support — Allows for page-at-a-time downloading of PDF documents from web servers
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