read a PDF file

[peterhudsonpeter]

hi all

i have recently installed FC10 on my system. I wonder that non of the command to read a pdf file working in this. i tried all which i know like xpdf , kpdf etc. But, the same file can be opened when i go through the icons of the files. can any one tell what could be the problem? or am I missing something?
what shall i do?

Thanks in advance

peter

[reed9]

I'm unclear what you're trying to do? What do you mean by "command to read a pdf file"? As in, if you type into the command line xpdf /path/to/file.pdf, it fails to open xpdf with the file?

[peterhudsonpeter]

Hello


Exactly. whenever i try to read a .PDF file with commands like kpdf or xpdf like

kpdf /path/to/file.pdf or xpdf /path/to/file.pdf .

It says" bash: kpdf : command not found

or bash: xpdf: command not found.

I wonder that what could be my problem and how i should sort it out.

Peter

[reed9]

Do you have those programs installed? Are you using the GNOME or KDE version of Fedora? In GNOME the default pdf reader is called evince, and in KDE the default is usually okular.

If you think you do have the programs installed, what is the output of

which xpdf

and

which kpdf

[Rubberman]

You should be able to download and install an rpm file from Adobe for the AdobeReader (acroread). I have version 9.1.2 installed on my CentOS system. Works just fine. Yes, I know that it is not FOSS, but it is a native linux build, and it's free.