A PDF (Portable Document Format) file is an electronic image of a
document. Red Hat Linux gives you several options for viewing PDFs.
An open source application called xpdf is
included with Red Hat Linux. The xpdf tool is
well-developed and easy to use. Right-click inside the screen to see a
list of menu options. The toolbar at the bottom has navigational tools
that let you move backwards and forwards through the document, as well
as standard zoom, print, and find tools. The
xpdf man page provides lots of useful
information on xpdf options (open a shell
prompt and type man xpdf at the command line).
To view a PDF with xpdf:
Go to => =>
Right click in the xpdf screen to display
a list of options.
Select Open to display a list of files.
Select the PDF file you want to view and click on
Open.
Another open source application called
Ghostview comes with Red Hat Linux and allows you to
view and navigate through PostScriptTM and PDF
files (for information on PostScript go to http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.htm. To
view a PDF with Ghostview:
Select =>
=> .
Select => to display
a list of available files.
Select the PDF or PostScript file you want to view and click on
Open File.
 | PDF Conversion |
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| | A quick way to convert a PDF to PostScript is to open a shell prompt and type:
pdf2ps input.pdf output.ps |
input.pdf is the file you want to convert and
output.ps is the new PostScript file you want
to create.
The pdf2ps command is part of the
Ghostscript tool. To see the location of
Ghostscript documentation on your system,
type gs -h at a shell prompt.
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The Ghostview user manual is available at http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/.
| Ghostview and Ghostscript |
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| | Ghostview is an interface for
Ghostscript. Ghostscript
is a PostScript interpreter, a PDF interpreter, and a conversion
tool. For more information, go to http://www.pdflib.com/gsmanual/index.html.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader is not included in
Red Hat Linux, but you can download
it free of charge at http://www.adobe.com/.
