Sidux/Useable applications/PDF readers
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- Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems.
Evince
[edit | edit source]- A default PDF installed application for sidux is Evince.
- What you have to do to open any PDF document is choosing "Document Viewer" (Evince) from mouse menu
- when you mark a PDF file in a file manager:
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- The application has thumbs pre-view in left sidebar.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Pdf2en.png/600px-Pdf2en.png)
- Evince home page: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/
- And on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince
Xpdf
[edit | edit source]- Next PDF viewer is Xpdf.
- 1. Install it:
apt-get install xpdf
- 2. Run it from: Menu-> Graphics-> xpdf.
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- 3. Or from mouse menu: Open with-> xpdf.
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- Home page: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
- And on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf
Adobe Reader
[edit | edit source]- Adobe Systems has it's own PDF reader for Linux.
- Install it from repositories:
apt-get install acroread
- Or download it from official web side: http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/ , choose Linux "deb" version
- and install it:
dpkg -i AdbeRdr_version_i386_enu.deb
- 1. Run it from: Menu-> Office-> Adobe Reader 9.
- 2. Accept the licence.
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- 3. And open a PDF file-> Open icon.
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- 4. Or choose a file from mouse menu: Open with-> Adobe Reader 9.
- Home page: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/
- On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Acrobat
Others
[edit | edit source]- KPDF: http://kpdf.kde.org/
- Okular: http://okular.kde.org/
- More about PDF on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format