Acrobat & PostScript

• Displaying PDF (Portable Document Format) Files
• Creating PostScript files
• Displaying PostScript files
• Converting between PostScript and PDF

Or you can install Adobe's Acrobat reader:

• Download Adcrobat Reader for Linux
• Extract the files, and run the install script

  gunzip -c linux-506.tar.gz | tar xvf -
  su
  ./INSTALL
  

/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread

In order to run Acrobat Reader on a Red Hat 8.0 system, you may need to set your LANG variable to C before running Acrobat Reader:

LANG=C
export LANG
acroread

You might want to put the LANG=C into your .bashrc file.

• In most applications that allow printing, you can select printing to a file rather than to a printer. The default format files are created in is is PostScript. For example, in Star Office, Open Office, browsers, email clients, image manipulation programs, etc. you would select File-->Print... then select Print to file. The file will be created in PostScript format.
• Use a command such as a2ps or enscript as described in the Printing section under Administration .

The next sections illustrate how to display PostScript files and how to convert the PostScript files to PDF format and vice versa.

• gv - A very fast GhostScript viewer.
• gs - A bare bones, very fast GhostScript viewer.
• ggv - A nice PostScript viewer.

ps2pdf infile.ps outfile.pdf

pdf2ps infile.pdf outfile.ps

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