Downloadable Documents

The majority of our downloadable documents are in Adobe PDF format. For further information about PDFs, please see below.

We are working towards making our documents available in other formats, to help make sure that they are accessible for everyone. Some documents are available in Rich Text Format (RTF). An RTF document can be viewed using any word-processing software.

PDFs

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a suitable format for documents on a website. A PDF file can contain large amounts of content or images in a more user-friendly way than a webpage.

To open PDF files, you need a viewer called Adobe Reader. This small program is free to download from the Adobe website and is available for any PC or Mac user.

To view any PDF on our site, you will need to make sure that you have Adobe Reader installed on your computer. See the link under Useful Websites.

Once you have installed this software, you will be able to open any of the PDFs available on our website. Where possible, we keep the file size of our PDFs under two megabytes, so you should not wait a long time for a document to download.

Making Adobe Accessible

PDFs are not always accessible to all internet users. On the Adobe website, they give details of how to convert any pdf documents written in English to a text file. Adobe also has features that are useful to internet users with visual impairements.

For more information on the conversion tool, or the accessibility of PDFs, click on the links under useful websites.