There was a time when creating high-quality PDF documents required expensive, commercial software. Even though there were freeware apps available based around Ghostscript technology, the final product never really matched that of the more commercial software and generally, were not good enough for commercial printing. PDFs are a useful, universal file format that is useful for displaying all manner of information, so it's important to be able to download and read the literature contained within these documents. 24 Sep 2008