PDF Documents

Both Fedora and Mandrake provide you with preinstalled programs for viewing PDF files, XPDF, and KGhostView. You can also view PDF files in your file manager. If you have a PDF file, all you have to do is open the directory that contains your file in your file manager, either Nautilus or Konqueror, and double-click the PDF. Both file manager programs automatically start the appropriate program to view the PDF file. Nautilus even views a PDF without opening a separate program (see Figure 8.8).

Figure 8.8. Viewing a PDF file in Nautilus.
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