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

PDF Viewers / Readers

Debian has multiple PDF viewers packaged, such as:

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:

/!\ To install acroread-plugin, you have to un-install the xine-ui package and vice-versa.

Editors / Generators

Other Tools

See Also


CategorySoftware