Adobe Acrobat Reader and Distiller

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Where to Find Adobe Acrobat Reader and Distiller
Adobe Acrobat: Instructions
If You Still Need Help

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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