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10-09-2005, 12:02 PM
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Registered: May 2005
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trying to open a pdf file on KDE
I realize this is a really newbie like question and it's a bit embarrassing to ask but I have to work on stuff for school and have been trying to find an answer without creating a thread.
So, can anyone please tell what are the magic words you type on the terminal to be able to read pdf files. I don't know if I need to install anything or not. I'm using slackware - desktop environment KDE!
I will be forever grateful to anyone you tries to help me. . . .
Last edited by kotoko; 10-09-2005 at 12:24 PM.
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10-09-2005, 12:10 PM
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Chicago
Distribution: Slackware64 -current
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I am not sure what you would do to read pdf off the command line. What desktop environment are you using??? GNOME or KDE or something else. I generally use xpdf or evince (comes standard with GNOME) or Adobe Acrobat for Linux. I don't use kde so I'm not sure what would read pdf's if you use kde.
Also if you post what distro you use, it would be lot helpful for people to give you a pin point answer.
Tux,
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10-09-2005, 12:27 PM
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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: far enough
Distribution: OS X 10.6.7
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you can install adobe acrobat reader from adobe.com and associate pdf files with "acroread" in kde
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10-09-2005, 12:39 PM
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Thanks!
But hmm, how do I associate pdf files to acroread? And by the way, what is acroread? A command, the name of the program, both?
^_^'' sorry for being a newbie . . .
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10-09-2005, 01:19 PM
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Debian Etch - Enlightenment E17
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Re: trying to open a pdf file on KDE
Quote:
Originally posted by kotoko
I realize this is a really newbie like question and it's a bit embarrassing to ask but I have to work on stuff for school and have been trying to find an answer without creating a thread.
So, can anyone please tell what are the magic words you type on the terminal to be able to read pdf files. I don't know if I need to install anything or not. I'm using slackware - desktop environment KDE!
I will be forever grateful to anyone you tries to help me. . . .
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I have no direct experience with that distro, but would imagine it comes with some kind of pdf reader. Maybe it's gpdf? In a terminal you can ...
man gpdf
and if it produces a man page, then it's installed on your system.
typing: gpdf <somepdffile.pdf> should launch gpdf with the pdf file loaded.
Cheers
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10-09-2005, 03:04 PM
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Distribution: Debian
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Slackware definitely offers you xpdf as part of a standard installation. Try looking for that too.
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12-06-2005, 07:36 PM
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If you still haven't resolved your problem... Try this method, it just work for me ...
I Open FireFox Brownser
click on preference
click on Downloads
click on Plugins to open
PDF file extension was enable ... I Double click too disable it ...
click ok to save
Now I when back to the PDF file on the internet and I click on it ...
Now I get a box that prompt me as to how I want to open PDF file with Adobe Acrobat
Problem resolved, I get prompt to open PDF file with Adobe Acrobat ...
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