- 1. The Adobe Acrobat Reader
- The application that is able to display PDF files is called the Adobe
Acrobat Reader. It has already been installed at DAIMI in /usr/local/bin/acroread.
(Otherwise it is freely available from Adobe.)
- 2. Configure Your WWW Browser
- In case you use Netscape you should do the following:
a) Add the following line to the file called ".mime.types"
located in your home directory (you might need to create the file):
application/pdf pdf
b) Add the following line to the file called ".mailcap"
located in your home directory (you might need to create the file ):
application/pdf; /usr/local/bin/acroread %s
If you do not use Netscape, then you might want to consult Acrobat
and Helper Applications from Adobe.
- 3. Configure X-Windows
- In order to be able to print pages in the Acrobat Reader you need to
add the following lines to the file called ".Xdefaults" located
in your home directory:
! Acrobat Reader
*acroread.lprCommand: /usr/local/bin/lpr
*acroread.lprStyle: BSD
- 4. Configure the Acrobat Reader
- Add the following lines to the file called ".cshrc" (or equivalent)
located in your home directory:
# For Adobe Acrobat Reader (mime.types, mailcap)
setenv EXTENSIONMAPS /usr/local/lib
- 5. Restart X-Windows
- To be sure that printing works you need to quit and restart X-Windows.
(If you do not want to print pages from the manual yet, it is sufficient
to quit an restart your WWW browser - at least if your use Netscape.)