Adobe Acrobat Reader and Distiller

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.

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 page.

• How can I obtain Adobe Acrobat for my personal computer?

  You can obtain Adobe Acrobat for University-owned computers only from the UDeploy Software Site.

Adobe Acrobat instructions

• Running acroread on Strauss

  At the UNIX prompt (%), type

     acroread

  You will see an acroread window like the following:

  

  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.

  If you were converting a file named main2e.ps, the distill window would look like the following:

  

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

 

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