Sidux/Useable applications/PDF readers

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems.

Evince

A default PDF installed application for sidux is Evince.

What you have to do to open any PDF document is choosing "Document Viewer" (Evince) from mouse menu

when you mark a PDF file in a file manager:

The application has thumbs pre-view in left sidebar.

Evince home page: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

And on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince

Xpdf

Next PDF viewer is Xpdf.

1. Install it:

apt-get install xpdf

2. Run it from: Menu-> Graphics-> xpdf.

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3. Or from mouse menu: Open with-> xpdf.

Home page: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

And on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf

Adobe Reader

Adobe Systems has it's own PDF reader for Linux.

Install it from repositories:

apt-get install acroread

Or download it from official web side: http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/ , choose Linux "deb" version

and install it:

dpkg -i AdbeRdr_version_i386_enu.deb

1. Run it from: Menu-> Office-> Adobe Reader 9.

2. Accept the licence.

3. And open a PDF file-> Open icon.

4. Or choose a file from mouse menu: Open with-> Adobe Reader 9.

Home page: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/

On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Acrobat

Others

1. KPDF: http://kpdf.kde.org/
2. Okular: http://okular.kde.org/

More about PDF on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format