Viewing PDFs (Portable Document Format)
Many of the Council's leaflets and application forms are available
on the site for downloading. Most of these documents are in PDF
format which means they can be viewed using the free Adobe Reader
software. Please Note that Adobe® Acrobat® Reader software is
required to open the attached documents. Adobe® Acrobat® Reader is
a free utility that can be downloaded from Adobe.
Select to download it.
If you want to view the PDF document in a new window, please right
click on the icon with your mouse and select "open in a new
window". After viewing or printing the document, you can close the
new Web browser window by using the close button at the top right
hand corner.
Adobe also offer other useful resources and tools to aid the
accessibility of PDFs, these can be accessed via the Adobe
Accessibility website, and include a text-only Adobe Reader
download page and an online conversion tool for PDFs.
Listening to PDFs - Read Out Loud
The latest version of Adobe Reader, version 7, comes with the
ability to "read" the PDF content to you. This function known as
"Read Out Loud" can be accessed as follows:
With the PDF you want read to you open in Adobe Reader 7, go to the
"View" menu and select "Read Out Loud", you will then have the
option to "Read This Page Only" or "Read To End Of Document".