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NAME
acroread - Adobe Acrobat Reader
SYNOPSIS
acroread [ options ] [file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
acroread is a shell script that launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader
program. The program's features are fully documented in The Acrobat
Help, an on-line prgram guide which is available from the product's Help
menu.
Acrobat Reader is part of the Adobe Acrobat family of software that lets
you view, distribute, print, and save documents in Portable Document
Format (PDF)-regardless of the computer, operating system, fonts, or
application used to create the original file. PDF files retain all the
formatting, fonts, and graphics of the original document, and virtually
any document can be converted into PDF.
OPTIONS
-display host:display
This option specifies the host and display to use.
-geometry [<width>x<height>][{+|-}<x offset>{+|-}<y offset>]
Size and/or location of the document windows.
-help
Prints a summary of the common command-line options.
-helpall
Prints a summary of all command-line options.
-iconic
Launches acroread in an iconic state on the desktop.
-name application name
Specifies the name under which resources for the application should
be found.
-setenv var=value
Tells the main application to perform the equivalent of C-shell
setenv var value.
-tempFile
Indicates files listed on the command line are temporary files and
should not be put in the recent file list. The document title will
be the title in the pdf document, instead of the filename.
-tempFileTitle title
Same as -tempFile, except the title is specified.
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-toPostScript pdffile ... [psdir]
-toPostScript -pairs pdffile1 psfile1 ...
-toPostScript
Convert PDF files to PostScript.
In the first form, if the last file specified is a directory, then
all preceding files will be converted to PostScript and the
generated PostScript files will be placed into ps_dir. If a
directory is not specified, then each PostScript file will be placed
in the same directory as its corresponding original PDF files.
In the second form, the file list contains pairs, each consisting of
a PDF filename and a corresponding PostScript filename.
The third form allows acroread to be used as a filter, reading a PDF
file from standard input and writing the PostScript file to standard
output.
Use of this option requires X and Display PostScript. If they are
not available locally, a suitable machine may be specified with the
-display option.
-useFrontEndProgram
If the application is already running on this machine, displaying on
this display, and has the same application name (specified by the
-name option). Then a message is sent to the application telling it
to open any files specified on the command line. If the application
is not already running, the application starts normally.
+useFrontEndProgram
The application starts normally without checking if it is already
running.
-visual visual class [depth=<depth>]
-visual id=<visual id>
-visual best
-visual default
Specifies a visual.
In the first form, the visual class (specified by either its name or
number) with an option depth determine the visual to use.
In the second form, the visual id is specified. The prefix 0x must
be used for hexadecimal numbers.
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The third form uses an internal algorithm based on depth and visual
class.
The fourth form simply uses the default visual.
Note that PseudoColor visuals of depth greater than 8, and
DirectColor visuals are not supported.
-xrm X resource specification
Standard X windows resource specification on command line.
FILES
/usr/bin/acroread Acrobat Reader launch script
/usr/adobe/Acrobat3.0/Reader/mipsirix/bin/acroread
Acrobat Reader executable
/usr/adobe/Acrobat3.0/Reader/mipsirix/app-defaults/AcroRead
X resources file used by Acrobat
/usr/adobe/Acrobat3.0/Reader/mipsirix/plugins/wwwlink.api
Adobe privileged plugin which
facilitates a connection with your web
browser.
NOTES
PostScript, Display PostScript and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe
Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Unix is a registered trademark of Unix System Laboratories, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Novell, Inc. X Window System is a trademark of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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