• PDF

Portable Document Format, see PDF on Wikipedia.

Readers

Graphical

Free PDF Viewers

We recommend that you use free PDF viewers because they are better supported in Debian. The most notable PDF viewers are:

• Evince for GNOME desktop,
• Kpdf for KDE desktop
• ViewPDF.app for GNUstep environment.
• xpdf for XFCE and other x window managers.

To install these, just use the command

aptitude install evince

or

aptitude install xpdf

or

aptitude install kpdf

or

apt-get install viewpdf.app

These packages are found in the 'main' repository.

There are other PDF viewers available in debian. search http://packages.debian.org.

Nonfree Adobe Acrobat Reader

Apt-get debian packages

If you really need Acrobat Reader in an easy way, add something like

  deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
or
  deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
or
  deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main

to

 /etc/apt/sources.list

For this, you can type

 su
 nano /etc/apt/sources/list

(see SourcesList).

This repository isn't "official" but it works and has some otherwise-unavailable packages.

After this, type in a terminal:

 apt-get update && apt-get install acroread mozilla-acroread 

or use Synaptic to install the packages acroread and mozilla-acroread

You can type in Mozilla

 about:plugins

and see:

• File name nppdf.so
  • application/pdf Portable Document Format pdf
  • application/vnd.fdf Acrobat Forms Data Format fdf
  • application/vnd.adobe.xfdf XML Version of Acrobat Forms Data Format xfdf
  • application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml Acrobat XML Data Package xdp

  • application/vnd.adobe.xfd+xml Adobe FormFlow99 Data File xfd

Text

• package xpdf-utils contains the pdftotext program for converting a PDF to text

Generators

Graphical

• OpenOffice

Technical

• package alml

• package htmldoc

• package php-fpdf in PHP

• package cl-pdf in Common Lisp

• package python-reportlab in Python

See Also

• PDF is now an ISO standard ISO 32000-1:2008