• PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF) , see PDF on Wikipedia.

PDF Viewers / Readers

Debian has multiple PDF viewers packaged, such as:

• evince - for GNOME desktop

• kpdf - for KDE desktop

• viewpdf.app - for GNUstep environment

• xpdf - for advanced features other X window managers

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

Adobe Acrobat Reader (Non-Free)

If you really need Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which is non-free, it is available from the debian-multimedia.org repository.

Add one of the following to /etc/apt/sources.list (see SourcesList) for your Debian version:

# Debian Multimedia (unofficial): Debian 4.0 (Etch)
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

or

# Debian Multimedia (unofficial): Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

or

# Debian Multimedia (unofficial): Debian Sid
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main

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 

In Mozilla, you can type in:

about:plugins

and check that the plugin is recognized:

• 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

Editors / Generators

• pdfedit is an editor for manipulating PDF documents

• inkscape can import and export PDF (more on inkscape.org)

• openoffice can export as PDF (see OpenOffice)

• gimp automatically convert the imported PDF as bitmap

• cups-pdf is a virtual printer that can generate a PDF from any application

• gscan2pdf - A GUI to produce PDFs from scanned documents

Other Tools

• pdftk - useful tool for manipulating PDF documents

• xpdf-utils - Portable Document Format (PDF) suite -- utilities

• htmldoc - HTML processor that generates indexed HTML, PS, and PDF

• chm2pdf - Converts CHM files into PDF files

• qpdf - tools for and transforming and inspecting PDF files

• rst2pdf - reStructuredText to PDF renderer

• pdf2svg - converts PDF documents to SVG files (one per page)

See Also

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

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