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Portable Document Format (PDF) , see PDF on Wikipedia.
PDF Viewers / Readers
Debian has multiple PDF viewers packaged, such as:
okular - for KDE 4 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 ftp.adobe.com or deb-multimedia.org repository.
For Squeeze, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list (see SourcesList):
# deb-multimedia (unofficial): Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
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
To install acroread-plugin, you have to un-install the xine-ui package and vice-versa. |
Editors / Generators
inkscape can import, edit and export PDF (more on inkscape.org)
pdfedit is an editor for manipulating PDF documents
openoffice and libreoffice can export as PDF (see OpenOffice or LibreOffice)
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 transforming and inspecting PDF files
rst2pdf - reStructuredText to PDF renderer
pdf2svg - converts PDF documents to SVG files (one per page)
See Also
PDF is an ISO standard: ISO 32000-1:2008