Journal of Buddhist Ethics

JBE Publications in Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format)

Editorial policy is to keep the journal at the leading edge of developments in Internet technology and publication formats. Adobe® Reader® has become a standard for professional Internet publication, allowing documents to be viewed and printed from different platforms (such as Macintosh, Microsoft Windows and Linux PCs) while retaining a standard appearance and pagination.

This format has certain advantages over both ASCII and HTML as far as electronic journals are concerned. PDF guarantees that all readers will see the document the way it would appear in print and allows the reader the option to print a journal-quality copy. The JBE is now using PDF documents in conjunction with HTML. PDF requires Adobe Reader, which is distributed free of charge and can be easily integrated with your system. Instructions for obtaining and installing Adobe Reader appear below. Please contact us and let us know what you think!

How do I view an article in Portable Document Format (PDF)?

To view articles in this format you must

download and install a copy of Adobe® Reader® on your computer. Note that the Adobe Reader package will also install a PDF browser plug-in. This allows for PDF documents to be viewed directly in your web browser window without having to separately launch the Adobe Reader program. The Adobe Reader plug-in gives the option of printing or saving a copy of the PDF document directly from the browser window.
be using a recent version of any of the most common web browsers: Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, etc.
have the browser configured to run the Adobe Reader plug-in for viewing PDF documents online.

If this is so, select the article from the designated links in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics and you can view it right now.

I'm not properly configured. How do I get set up?

You need the Adobe Reader program. You can download it now free of charge from the Adobe® website. If you already have an earlier version of Acrobat, we recommend you download the latest release (7.0) to benefit from performance enhancements such as the ability to view, print, search, and share PDF documents.

Further information about the minimum System requirements for running Adobe Reader can be found here.