Adobe Acrobat Reader and Distiller

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.

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 web pages at http://www.udel.edu/sites.

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

  Please see the software distribution pages at http://www.udel.edu/sw.

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 if you were converting main2e.ps:

  

  This creates a file called main2e.pdf.

More Help

If you need help quickly, you may call the IT Help Center at 831-6000 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Or, you can submit a question through e-mail.