Adobe is distributing an application called the Adobe Acrobat Reader which is freely available directly from Adobe for most platforms (incl. Windows, Macintosh, Unix).
If this application is not currently installed on your system, ask your systems administrator to download it from Adobe, and install it on your system. When this is done, you should read the documentation which comes with the Acrobat software to configure it properly.
.mime.types
" located in
your home directory (you might need to create the file):
application/pdf pdf
.mailcap
" located in
your home directory (you might need to create the file ):
application/pdf; /usr/local/bin/acroread %sOn you specific system, "
acroread
" might be located elsewhere - check with
your systems administrator.
! Acrobat Reader *acroread.lprCommand: /usr/local/bin/lpr *acroread.lprStyle: BSDOn you specific system, "
lpr
" might be located elsewhere - check with
your systems administrator.
.cshrc
" (or equivalent) located
in your home directory:
# For Adobe Acrobat Reader (mime.types, mailcap) setenv EXTENSIONMAPS /usr/local/lib
A PDF document contains one or more pages. Each page in the document may contain any combination of text, graphics, and images in a device- and resolution-independent format. This is the page description. A PDF document may also contain information possible only in an electronic representation, such as hypertext links.
In addition to a document, a PDF file contains the version of the PDF specification used in the file and information about the location of important structures in the file.
You can get access to different documentation on the PDF format and the Adobe Acrobat family of products for supporting the PDF format directly from Adobe.