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2. Adobe's Portable Document Format (.pdf)
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Charts for Presentations

Presentation-quality charts are provided in Microsoft Powerpoint format for selected figures in Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2002.

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Several file formats are used on this site for presenting text, tables, and charts. Most are automatically resolved by your browser, but a few require separate, commonly-available software applications. You can either configure your browser to recognize and display these files, or save the files to disk and view them later.

Adobe Systems Incorporated developed Adobe Acrobat Reader, a freely available viewer for files that conform to the Portable Document Format (.pdf). The Reader allows you to view, navigate, and print PDF files across all major computing platforms. The PDF files closely match the formatting of our printed reports.

Access.Adobe.Com is a resource with information on how blind and visually impaired users can access documents in Adobe PDF format. The site includes information on converting PDF files to HTML or ASCII text, which can then be read by common screen-reading programs.

Microsoft Excel Viewer lets you view and print Microsoft Excel for Windows (version 2.0 and greater) and Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh (versions 2.2a and greater) spreadsheet files.

If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your computer, you can use the PowerPoint97 Viewer (2,757K) to view and print PowerPoint presentations exactly as they appear in PowerPoint. With this viewer, you can see animation, graphics effects, action settings, hyperlinks, and custom shows.

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