Projects - Installing Pdf Reader

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HowTo

Xpdf

Adobe Reader

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PDF - Portable Document Format, the most popular electronic document format. But how to read the .pdf files in GNU/Linux. Here gives the lightweight and functional way for Chinese users.

Before

• SoftwareInstall

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HowTo

Xpdf

download

• xpdf-3.00-cjk.tar.gz (for slackware)
• xpdf-chinese-simplified.tar.gz from Xpdf Download.

installing

xpdf

#tar xvfz xpdf-3.00-cjk.tar.gz
#cd xpdf
#tar xvfz xpdf-3.00.tar.gz
#cd xpdf-3.00
#patch -Np1 -i ../xpdf-3.00-freetype_2.1.7_hack-1.patch
#patch -Np0 -i ../xpdf-3.0-cjk-font.diff
#patch -Np0 -i ../xpdf-cjk-fix.diff
#cd xpdf
#patch -Np0 -i ../../xpdf-3.00pl1.patch
#cd ..
#./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2
#make
#make install

xpdf-chinese-simpilified

#mkdir -p /usr/share/xpdf/chinese-simplified
#tar xvfz xpdf-chinese-simplified.tar.gz
#mv xpdf-chinese-simplified/* /usr/share/xpdf/chinese-simplified/

configuring

• ~/.Xresources

  #echo "xpdf*.fontList: -*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1;\
                         -misc-stkaiti-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-gbk-0:" >> ~/.Xresources
  #xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
  

• ~/.xpdfrc +¹²

  fontDir                         /usr/share/fonts
  displayNamedCIDFontTT   ºÚÌå      /usr/share/fonts/simhei.ttf
  displayNamedCIDFontTT   ËÎÌå      /usr/share/fonts/simsun.ttf
  displayNamedCIDFontTT   Ó×Ô²      /usr/share/fonts/simyou.ttf
  displayNamedCIDFontTT   Á¥Êé      /usr/share/fonts/simli.ttf
  displayCIDFontTT        Adobe-GB1       /usr/share/fonts/simsun.ttf
  

using

#xpdf xxx.pdf
#man xpdf

Adobe Reader

download

• Adobe Reader Chinese simplified (chs)³
• Adobe Reader English
• choose the .tar.gz

installing

#tar xvfz AdobeReader_chs-7.0.5-1.i386.tar.gz
#./AdobeReader/INSTALL

using

#acroread xxx.pdf

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Related Links

• Xpdf: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
• Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/
• Adobe China: http://www.adobe.com.cn/

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1. The symbol "+" stands for adding the following lines into the file in front of "+".

2. You can modify this file according to your own fonts path and fonts you have.

3. It's very convenient for Chinese users to use the .tar.gz version of this reader.

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Updated: February 6, 2007	Home / Index / ChangeLog	Edited by Haiyong Zheng