PDF viewing and such

[Aaron]

Hi,

I am wondering what everyone here uses to view PDF files in Linux
these days? I do use text2pdf for instances where I only care about
the textual content, but copying the PDF to OS X or Windows to view it
in Reader is getting cumbersome. Recommendations?

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[Ron Johnson]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 13:12, Aaron wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am wondering what everyone here uses to view PDF files in Linux
> these days? I do use text2pdf for instances where I only care about
> the textual content, but copying the PDF to OS X or Windows to view it
> in Reader is getting cumbersome. Recommendations?

xpdf, gs and Adobe acroread. GPL purists won't like acroread, of
course, but it does a very good job...

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[Paul Johnson]

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:32:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

> xpdf, gs and Adobe acroread. GPL purists won't like acroread, of
> course, but it does a very good job...

If you don't mind it being slow, ugly resource pig that doesn't know
what a mouse wheel is...

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[Brian Gonzales]

> There are several packages available to view PDF documents, among them
> xpdf, gs, kghostview and Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The last one is not
> available as an official package, but there is a package available from
> marillat.free.fr. Add
>
> deb [url]http://marillat.free.fr[/url] stable main
>

What's the package's name?

Thanks.


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[Brian Gonzales]

> What's the package's name?
>
> Thanks.
>

Duh, sorry... acroread.


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[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

Brian Gonzales wrote:

>> There are several packages available to view PDF documents, among them
>> xpdf, gs, kghostview and Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The last one is not
>> available as an official package, but there is a package available from
>> marillat.free.fr. Add
>>
>> deb [url]http://marillat.free.fr[/url] stable main
>>

>
> What's the package's name?

It's acroread.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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[Nathan Poznick]

> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:12:46PM -0400, Aaron wrote:

> > > I am wondering what everyone here uses to view PDF files in Linux
> > > these days? I do use text2pdf for instances where I only care about
> > > the textual content, but copying the PDF to OS X or Windows to view it
> > > in Reader is getting cumbersome. Recommendations?

Yet another solution is to use Adobe's Acrobat Reader for Linux.
[url]http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/5.x/linux-507.tar.gz[/url]

Alternatively, you can add one of the following lines to your
/etc/apt/source.list (depending on what you're running), and then
apt-get update; apt-get install acroread
(There's also an acroread-plugin package so you can view PDF's in
Mozilla / Konq / Old Netscape)

deb [url]http://marillat.free.fr/[/url] stable main
deb [url]http://marillat.free.fr/[/url] testing main
deb [url]http://marillat.free.fr/[/url] unstable main


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[Paul Johnson]

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On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:47:11AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote:

> What's the package's name?

acroread

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