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That helps a bit more understanding the questions.
I am not official for Adobe, but there have been some trends to kind of "brand" the Term "Adobe PDF". A PDF document can be called "Adobe PDF" if it has been created using tools provided by Adobe. Otherwise, it is a PDF. However, Adobe is not very clear with their own usage of the term, and they use "Adobe PDF" synonymoulsy with "PDF" in some places (they apparently love clumsy wording...).
Anyway, for your environment, IMHO, it would be advisable to identify the document format as "PDF", and mention the location where the primary PDF viewer can be downloaded from (and if it is on-line, provide the link). If you think that your users "need" to know about the application, it might be an idea to describe it as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format (.pdf).
Hope, this can help.
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The reason for the question is that I work for the Ontario (Canada) gov't (Ministry of Northern Development and Mines) and we regularly release geological studies in PDF format and sometimes in other formats too. For example, "This data release contains a readme file in Microsoft Word 97 (.doc) format and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format". A question arose by one of the editors as to whether the PDF format should be expressly identified as an Adobe Acrobat format or should it just be identified as a PDF format. To the best of my knowledge, the only reader available is Acrobat Reader (although other applications such as Ghostscript, CorelDRAW and others can open PDFs) which is why the format was identified as Adobe Acrobat format.
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