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

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PDF Viewers / Readers

Debian has multiple PDF viewers packaged, such as:

• atril - for MATE desktop

• evince - for GNOME desktop

• kpdf - for KDE 3 desktop

• mupdf - for any X window manager (no extra features)

• okular - for KDE 4 desktop

• qpdfview - tabbed document viewer - QT

• viewpdf.app - for GNUstep environment

• xpdf - for advanced features other X window managers (no extra features)

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 ftp.adobe.com or the deb-multimedia.org repository.

installing the .deb from ftp.adobe.com does not work with amd64/Jessie (libgtk dependency error)

Note that Adobe Acrobat requires the i386 architecture. If you are running on a non-i386 system, you will need to add i386 architecture support.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 

For Squeeze, add the following lines 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:

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

In Iceweasel, 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

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

• gimp automatically convert the imported PDF as bitmap

• gscan2pdf - A GUI to produce PDFs from scanned documents

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

• openoffice and libreoffice can export as PDF (see OpenOffice or LibreOffice)

• pdfedit was an editor for manipulating PDF documents; it is no longer available in debian

• pdftk is a command line editor for manipulating PDF documents

• php-fpdf - FPDF is a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with PHP

Other Tools

• chm2pdf - Converts CHM files into PDF files

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

• qpdf - tools for transforming and inspecting PDF files

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

• pdfmod - can rotate, extract, remove and reorder pages from multiple documents via drag and drop; edit the title, subject, author and keywords

• pdfshuffler is a tool for shuffling the pages within PDF documents and merging PDF documents

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

• rst2pdf - reStructuredText to PDF renderer

See Also

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

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