hoe to view pdf files in command mode.
 

i have lot of problem with xserver.
now i am currently working with command mode.

can u please tell me some of the command for viewthe pdf files in command mode.

You could probably pipe a couple commands:
- pdf2ps will give you the PostScript equivalent of your PDF file.
- Starting from there you can obtain plain text using ps2ascii or pstotext

Yves.

bruse,
AFAIK you need to first set the DISPLAY on using setenv or set command depending on
the shell you are working on c-shell or bash respectively.

eg-<C-shell> setenv DISPLAY <IPAddress or name of our M/c:0.0>
This will enable display to view the *.pdf or anyother file.
Next just run the executable of acrobat to view your pdf file.

eg-<C-shell> ./acroread

That's it..

eg-<C-shell> ./acroread

is this package or command.
how could this open my pdf file in terminal .pls more abt this.

acroread is the executable for running acrobat reader on my sunplatform.
and I work on c-shell.So just setting environment by setenv DISPLAY
bruse-machine:0.0 and then running the executable iff u are having
acrobat package with u.

check it.

It seems pdf2ps isn't even needed! This should work:
Yves.

ps2ascii *.pdf | more

this helped me too.thanks.

"evince" is one such pdf viewer programme.
"$ which evince"
/usr/bin/evince

On my system
$evince filename.pdf
displays the pdf file. You may have other pdf viewer programme if not evince like may be 'kpdf' or something like that.

Prasad