Some of my stories and articles are distributed as PDF ("Portable Document Format") files. PDF is a nifty Adobe invention that does a good job of displaying text layout and fonts exactly as the author intended them to look.
To read a PDF file, you will need software such as Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 4 or higher). Most likely, you already have this installed on your computer. If not, visit the Adobe website to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. It's available for all versions of Windows since 3.1, all versions of the Macintosh OS since the 68000 series, Linux, Sun Solaris SPARC, IBM AIX, HP-UX, OS/2 Warp, and (if you have a PDA or pocket computer), the Palm, Pocket PC, and Symbian operating systems.
Be sure to take a few minutes to set up Adobe's "CoolType" feature, especially if you use an LCD display. This can dramatically improve readability on the screen. Select Edit... Preferences... Display from the Adobe Acrobat Reader menu.
If you really loathe Adobe for some reason, you can read PDFs using Ghostscript and GSView. But I don't recommend this, because the software is harder to set up, harder to use, and produces an inferior display compared to Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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