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Portable Document Format - PDF
Wyre Forest District Council uses Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on its website as PDF format faithfully preserves the document formatting - fonts, layout, design etc. thus ensuring you view or print out an exact replica copy of the original document.

Documents available in PDF format are where possible denoted by the pdf logo and have the file size in brackets next to it. See below for example download times.

If Adobe Acrobat is not already installed on your PC you will need to download it before reading any PDF documents. You need do this only ONCE and the software is FREE.

For your convenience you can download Adobe Acrobat from the Adobe website by following these instructions:

How to Download and Install Adobe Acrobat

Please print these instructions and follow carefully - note, you will need to restart your PC after installing Adobe.

Downloading

click on the "Get Acrobat Reader" logo below and then select your language and Operating System from the drop down lists.
get acrobat reader logo 
Click on the download button and save the file onto your hard disc into a temp directory

Installing

locate the newly downloaded file (saved on your hard disc in a temp directory) double click on the icon for the file. Follow the on screen instructions.

NB. You may need to restart your computer to complete the installation.

Example Download Times

Dial Up Modem - 28.8K

File Size

Estimated Download Time
HH:MM:SS

100K

00:00:33

500K

00:02:46

1024K (1MB)

00::05:41

10240K (10MB)

00:55:33

Dial Up Modem - 56K

File Size

Estimated Download Time
HH:MM:SS

100K

00:00:16

500K

00:01:23

1024K (1MB)

00:02:50

10240K (10MB)

00:28:26

ISDN - 128K

File Size

Estimated Download Time
HH:MM:SS

100K

00:00:07

500K

00:00:36

1024K (1MB)

00:01:15

10240K (10MB)

00:12:30

CABLE/ADSL - 512K

File Size

Estimated Download Time
HH:MM:SS

100K

00:00:02

500K

00:00:09

1024K (1MB)

00:00:34

10240K (10MB)

00:03:08

T1 - 1.554MB

File Size

Estimated Download Time
HH:MM:SS

100K

< 1 sec

500K

00:00:03

1024K (1MB)

00:00:06

10240K (10MB)

00:01:01

Page Information
This page was last reviewed 30 September 2009 at 16:19 by Louise Badsey.
The page is next due for review 29 March 2010.