Portable Document Format (PDF) , see PDF on Wikipedia.
- PDF Viewers / Readers
- Annotation tools
- Editors / Generators
- Other Tools
- See Also
PDF Viewers / Readers
- atril - for MATE desktop
- evince - for GNOME desktop
- mupdf - for any X window manager (no extra features)
- okular - for KDE 4/Plasma 5 desktop
- qpdfview - tabbed document viewer - QT
- viewpdf.app - for GNUstep environment
- xpdf - for advanced features other X window managers (no extra features)
- zathura - zathura is a document viewer with a minimalistic and space saving interface.
Adobe Acrobat Reader (Non-Free)
Adobe discontinued support for Acrobat Reader on Linux in 2013, so the only version that is available for Linux contains critical security vulnerabilities and should not be used. The Wine tool can be used to run Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for Windows on Linux.
Insecure obsolete Linux version
If you really need the insecure obsolete Linux version of 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 due to a 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 Firefox, you can type in:
about:plugins
- 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
Annotation tools
- xournal - a note-taking tool with the ability to annotate PDFs
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)
- libreoffice can edit PDF and export it in this format using Libreoffice Draw.
- 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
- pdfsam - PDF Split and Merge is a very simple, easy to use, free, open source utility to split and merge pdf files (simple graphical interface).
- 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
