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class="rte"> <p></p><div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20111230062844/http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/guides/factsheets/">Factsheets</a> </li> <li><a href="/web/20111230062844/http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/research-papers/">Research Papers</a> </li> <li><a href="/web/20111230062844/http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/post/">Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)</a> </li> <li><i>The House of Lords - A Brief Guide</i> which is listed, among other one-off Pdf documents produced by the House of Lords, on the <a href="/web/20111230062844/http://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/about-lords/what-the-lords-do/">What the Lords Does</a> web page. </li></ul> <p>Pdf stands for Portable Document Format and is an alternative way of supplying material on our web pages when the use of Html is not appropriate. This page sets out information that may be useful to people who need to know more about how to use Pdf documents. </p> <p>Pdf material on this site is identified by the following icon<span class="left"><img alt="PDF Document" src="/web/20111230062844im_/http://www.parliament.uk/ImageVault/Images/id_413/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~413~PDF Document"/></span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li><a href="">Adobe website</a> - freely available and works as a helper application or plug-in to a WWW browser </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111230062844/http://www.tiffviewer.com/pdfreader.htm" rel="external">Brava! 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