Whats A Pdf?

I know this is a very newbie question :P but i've not tried to open one before!
Whats A PDF and how do you open them???

Cheers!

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Download adobe reader to open them.

worth a bookmark
http://www.stack.com/file/extension/#A
or even better this one
http://filext.com/

You may already have Acrobat Reader. It comes free on many game CD's.

thanks for the help!!!

Don't think i've got it already because i could'nt open a pdf file!

You probally have, just not installed :P
Get "Adobe Acrobat"
Then you can make/edit..etc them.

a pdf is a public distribution file. just so u know, and not sound like a noob when u talk about it. lol jk