Adobe Acrobat Reader and Distiller

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• Description
• Where to Find Adobe Acrobat Reader and Distiller
• Adobe Acrobat: Instructions

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) is a program for viewing a PDF (Portable Document Format) document and Adobe Acrobat Distiller (distill) is a program for converting a Postscript document to a PDF document.

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Where to Find Adobe Acrobat

• Where Can I Use Adobe Acrobat on Campus?

  Adobe Acrobat is available on Strauss.

  For availability of Adobe Acrobat at computing sites, please see the computing sites web pages .

• How Can I Obtain Adobe Acrobat (Reader) for my Personal Computer?

  Please see the UD software distribution pages.

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Adobe Acrobat Instructions

• Running acroread on Strauss

  At the UNIX prompt (%), type

  acroread

  The acroread start up screen, similar to the following one, will appear:

  

  To end the acroread X window session, from the File menu, select Exit.

• Running distill on Strauss

  At the UNIX prompt (%), type

  distill filename.ps

  This will create a file called filename.pdf.

  The distill screen, similar to the following one, will appear. For example, if you were converting main2e.ps:

  
  
  The distill command would create a file called main2e.pdf.

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