Shortstop,
There are many different ways to transfer PDF documents from your computer to your iPad. For example,
- Send email with a PDF attachment from your computer and open it on your iPad.
- Upload PDF documents to cloud storage service (e.g. Acrobat.com, Dropbox, Google Drive) and download them to your iPad.
- Use iTunes to directly transfer PDF documents from your computer to your iPad.
Please see How to get PDF documents into Adobe Reader for iOS (iPad on iOS 7 version) for more details.
Please let us know if you have additional questions.