Install PDF Reader under Ubuntu

Install PDF Reader under Ubuntu

There are a variety of PDF readers available under Ubuntu, such as Adobe Reader, Xpdf, and so on, and only the installation methods of Adobe Reader and Xpdf are described below.

1 Install Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader can be installed manually, but also automatically downloaded online, but the online download has a flaw is that after the installation is successful, it will not automatically download the language pack, display Chinese will not show, it prompts you to download the official website, you need downloading language packs, the method of automatic installation is quite simple, You just need to get a command.

sudo apt-get install Acroread

In this way I installed the version is Adobe Reader 9.3, but the Chinese bag I find for a few hours also did not find, but the second, see the Internet has a Chinese version of Adobe Reader for Linux version 7, download the address for:

Http://download.chinaunix.net/download/0001000/258.shtml

There is also a reader version 8, software source in the Chinese military Software Park, download the address is:

Http://www.newhua.com/soft/39215.htm

I will it download down, put in the host set up the FTP directory, and then switch to the virtual machine in the terminal of Ubuntu, with ftp down to Ubuntu, right, this has a key, with FTP, when you must switch the mode to the binary mode download, Otherwise in Ubuntu is unable to extract, download, decompression, command line with the TAR command decompression, set its decompression directory under ~/adobereader, the following start to install

CD Adobereader
./install (Hey, the following will output some options for you to choose the installation directory, etc.)

Installed can be used, the program's default installation directory is/opt/adobe/reader8/bin, the name of the reader is Acroread

Next use Acroread to open a Chinese document to try, should show normal.

But then Acroread can only be opened in the/opt/adobe/reader8/bin directory, how to configure it can also be opened in other directories. We can edit the/etc/profile file and add a line to the file:

Export path= $PATH:/opt/adobe/reader8/bin

We can also add acroread to the panel and save the following to a file named Acroread.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
>encoding=utf-8]
Exec=/opt/adobe/reader8/bin/acroread
Icon=/opt/adobe/reader8/resources/icons/adobereader.png
Terminal=false
Type=application
Categories=application;office;
Save the file to the/usr/share/applications directory, and the configuration will take effect once the system is restarted.

If you want to use Acroreader in terminal, you can use Acroread ***.pdf

2) Installation of Xpdf
Xpdf installation When the most simple, we only need three files, one installation file Xpdf, while the other two are Chinese language pack, xpdf-chinese-simplified and Xpdf-chinese-traditional, only three commands can be easily handled
sudo apt-get install xpdf
sudo apt-get install xpdf-chinese-simplified
sudo apt-get install xpdf-chinese-traditional