Adobe Acrobat Reader System Requirements

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System Requirements

Windows 95/98
Windows NT
Windows 3.1 & 3.11 for Workgroups
Macintosh & Power Macintosh
UNIX
OS/2
DOS

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Adobe® Acrobat® Reader and Reader with Search for Windows® 95
Minimum i386™, i486™, Pentium®, or Pentium Pro processor-based personal computer Microsoft® Windows 95, or Windows NT® 3.51 or later 8 MB of RAM (16 MB for Windows NT) available to Acrobat Reader 10 MB of available hard-disk space		Recommended Pentium processor-based personal computer Windows 95 or Windows NT 16 MB of RAM (24 MB for Windows NT) available to Acrobat Reader 10 MB of available hard-disk space
Adobe Acrobat Reader and Reader with Search for Windows NT
Minimum i386, i486, Pentium, or Pentium Pro processor-based personal computer Windows NT 3.51 or later 8 MB of RAM (16 MB for Windows NT) for Acrobat Reader 10 MB of available hard-disk space		Recommended Pentium processor-based personal computer Windows 95 or Windows NT 16 MB of RAM (24 for Windows NT) 10 MB of available hard-disk space
Adobe Acrobat Reader and Reader with Search for Windows 3.1 and 3.11 for Workgroups
Minimum i386, i486, Pentium, or Pentium Pro processor-based personal computer Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.11 or later 8 MB of RAM available to Acrobat Reader 5 MB of available hard-disk space		Recommended Pentium processor-based personal computer Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.11 or later 12 MB of available hard-disk space
Adobe Acrobat Reader and Reader with Search for Macintosh and Power Macintosh
Minimum Macintosh with a 68020 or greater processor, or Power Macintosh 3.5 MB of RAM (5 MB for Power Macintosh) available to Acrobat Reader Apple System Software version 7.0 or later		Recommended 8 MB of RAM available to Acrobat Reader Apple System Software version 7.1.2 or later 12.5 MB of available hard-disk space

Web Browsing Issues
Netscape® Navigator® 3.0 or later is recommended for viewing PDF files inside a Web browser. Netscape Navigator 2.0 can be used with limitations; for example, it will not allow you to submit a PDF form, and operations such as printing PDF files from within Netscape Navigator 2.0 can crash your Mac. You may also be able to use other Web browsers that fully support the Netscape APIs.

If you have more than one Navigator folder on your hard disk or you wish to view PDF files within the window of another Netscape compatible browser, copy PDFViewer to its plug-ins folder. If you have multiple versions of Netscape Navigator, be sure that the plug-ins folder associated with the version of Netscape you'll be using contains PDFViewer version 1.0. (You can see the version using the Finder's Get Info command.)

To access URLs embedded in PDF files when using Acrobat Reader outside of a Web browser, you must specify your preferred Web browser in Acrobat Reader's Weblink Preferences dialog box. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences/Weblink.../WWW Browser Application.


Adobe Acrobat Reader and Reader with Search for UNIX®
UNIX 12 MB of disk space for Acrobat Reader System with 32 MB of RAM		Sun SPARCstation® SunOS™ 4.1.3 or 4.1.4 or Solaris® 2.3, 2.4, or 2.5 OpenWindows™ (version 3.0 or later), Motif™ window manager (1.2.3 or later), OpenLook version 3.0, or Common Desktop Environment (CDE) 1.0 and above
HP Series 9000 workstation, model 700 or greater HP-UX 9.0.3 or later X Window System™ X11R5 with HP-VUE or CDE 1.0 12 MB of available hard-disk space A 32-MB machine		IBM(R) RS/6000(TM) workstation AIX® 4.1 or later operating system Common Desktop Environment (CDE) or the Motif window manager
Silicon Graphics workstation IRIX™ 5.3 or later operating system software 12 MB of available hard disk space A 32-MB machine		*Linux workstation** Intel® 80x86-based computer Linux 1.2.13 or later kernel (The Acrobat Reader for Linux was built on a 2.0.0 kernel.) *Reader with Search not available for Linux.
Digital UNIX workstation Digital 21x64-based computer Digital UNIX 4.0 or later 16 MB of available hard-disk space 32 MB of RAM
Adobe Acrobat Reader OS/2®
Minimum i386, i486, Pentium, or Pentium Pro processor-based personal computer IBM® OS/2 Warp or Warp Connect 3.0 or later (Fixpak 26 required for printing using OS/2 Warp 3.0 or Warp Connect 3.0) 4 MB of application RAM available to Acrobat Reader 8 MB of RAM available for system 5 MB of hard-disk space, plus 5 MB of temporary space available during installation Netscape Navigator 2.02E or later for viewing PDF files inside a Web browser		Recommended Pentium processor-based personal computer IBM OS/2 Warp 4.0 Installation Issues You can't install into the same directory from which you run the install program You can't execute the installer from a path that has spaces in it.
Adobe Acrobat Reader 1.0 for DOS
Minimum i386 or i486 processor-based personal computer Microsoft DOS 3.3 or later 2 MB of RAM for Acrobat Reader 5 MB of available hard-disk space		Recommended i486 or Pentium processor-based personal computer Microsoft DOS 3.3 or later 4 MB of application RAM 5 MB of available hard-disk space