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GNOME PDF Viewer Manual V&manrevision; &date; Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project GNOME PDF Viewer Manual V2.1 February 2004 Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project GNOME PDF Viewer Manual V2.0 October 2003 Chee Bin HOH cbhoh@mimos.my GNOME Documentation Project This manual describes version &appversion; of GNOME PDF Viewer. To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &appname; application or this manual, follow the directions in the GNOME Feedback Page. &appname; gpdf The &app; application enables you to view Portable Document Format (PDF) files. &app; is based on the Xpdf program and uses additional GNOME features for better desktop integration. You can start &app; in the following ways: Applications menu Choose Graphics PDF Viewer . Command line Execute the following command: gpdf When you start &app;, the following window is displayed.

Shows &appname; main window. Contains titlebar, menubar, toolbar, and display area. Menubar contains File, View, and Help menus.

The &app; window contains the following elements: Menubar The menus on the menubar contain all of the commands that you need to work with files in &app;. Toolbar The toolbar contains a subset of the commands that you can access from the menubar. Display area The display area displays the PDF file. Additional menus and toolbar buttons are displayed when you open a file. In &app;, you can perform the same action in several ways. For example, you can open a file in the following ways: UI Component Action Window Drag a file into the &app; window from another application such as a file manager. Double-click on the file name in the file manager, or any GNOME application that accepts embedded PDF views. Menubar Choose FileOpen. Toolbar Click on the Open toolbar button. Click on the down-arrow button to display a list of recently-opened files. Shortcut keys Press CtrlO. This manual documents functionality from the menubar. To open a File, perform the following steps: Choose FileOpen . In the Load file dialog, select the file you want to open. Click Open. &app; displays the name of the PDF file in the titlebar of the window. To open another file, choose FileOpen again. &app; opens each file in a new window. If you try to open a file format that &app; does not recognize, the application displays an error message. You can navigate through a file as follows: To view the next page, choose Go Next Page . To view the previous page, choose Go Previous Page . To view the first page in the file, choose Go First Page . To view the last page in the file, choose Go Last Page . To navigate back through viewed pages, choose GoBack. To navigate forward through viewed pages, choose Go Forward . To view a particular page, enter the page number in the text box on the toolbar, then press Return. To display the page contents that are not currently displayed in the display area, use the following methods: Use the arrow keys on the keyboard. Drag the display area in the opposite direction to the direction in which you want to scroll. For example, to scroll down the page, drag the display area upwards in the window. Use the scrollbars on the window. You can use the following methods to resize a page in the &app; display area: To increase the page size, choose View Zoom In . To decrease the page size, choose View Zoom Out . To resize a page to have the same width as the &app; display area, choose View Fit page width . To resize a page to fit within the &app; display area, choose View Best Fit . To resize the &app; window to have the same width and height as the screen, choose View Full Screen . To resize the &app; window to the original size, click on the Exit Full Screen button. To view bookmarks or pages, perform the following steps: Choose View Sidebar . Use the drop-down list in the side-pane header to select whether to display bookmarks or pages in the side pane. Use the side-pane scrollbars to display the required bookmark or page in the side pane. Click on a bookmark to navigate to that location in the file. Click on a page to navigate to that page in the file. To view the properties of a PDF file, choose File Properties . The PDF Properties dialog displays the following information: Title Title of the PDF document. Subject Subject of the PDF document. Author Author of the PDF document. Keywords Keywords associated with the PDF document. Creator Application used to create the PDF document. Producer Producer of the PDF document. Created Date on which the PDF document was created. Modified Date on which the PDF document was last modified. Security Whether the PDF document is encrypted or not. PDF Version Version number of the PDF document. Number of Pages Number of pages in the PDF document. Optimized Whether the PDF document is optimized or not. To print a PDF file, choose File Print . If you cannot choose the Print menu item, the author of the PDF file has disabled the print option for this file. To enable the print option, you must enter the master password when you open the file. See for more information about password-protected files. The Print dialog has the following tabbed sections: Job Printer Paper Print range Select one of the following options to determine how many pages to print: All Select this option to print all of the pages in the file. Pages From Select this option to print the selected range of pages in the file. Use the spin boxes to specify the first page and last page of the range. Printer Use this drop-down list to select the printer to which you want to print the file. The Create a PDF document option is not supported in this version of &app;. Settings Use this drop-down list to select the printer settings. To configure the printer, click Configure. For example, you can enable or disable duplex printing, or schedule delayed printing, if this functionality is supported by the printer. Location Use this drop-down list to select one of the following print destinations: CUPS Print the file to a CUPS printer. If the selected printer is a CUPS printer, CUPS is the only entry in this drop-down list. lpr Print the file to a printer. File Print the file to a PostScript file. Click Save As to display a dialog where you specify the name and location of the PostScript file. Custom Use the specified command to print the file. Type the name of the command in the text box. Include all command-line arguments. State This functionality is not supported in this version of &app;. Type This functionality is not supported in this version of &app;. Comment This functionality is not supported in this version of &app;. Paper size Use this drop-down list to select the size of the paper to which you want to print the file. Width Use this spin box to specify the width of the paper. Use the adjacent drop-down list to change the measurement unit. Height Use this spin box to specify the height of the paper. Feed orientation Use this drop-down list to select the orientation of the paper in the printer. Page orientation Use this drop-down list to select the page orientation. Layout Use this drop-down list to select the page layout. A preview of each layout that you select is displayed in the Preview area. Paper Tray Use this drop-down list to select the paper tray. To copy a file, perform the following steps: Choose File Save a Copy . Type the new filename in the Filename text box in the Save a Copy dialog. If necessary, specify the location of the copied file. By default, copies are saved in your home directory. Click Save. An author can use the following password levels to protect a PDF document: User password that allows others only to read the document. Master password that allows others to perform additional actions, such as print the document. When you try to open a password-protected document, &app; displays a security dialog. Type either the user password or the master password in the Enter document password text box, then click Open Document. To close a file, choose File Close . If the window is the last &app; window open, the application exits. To quit &app; at any time, no matter how many windows are open, choose File Quit . When you quit, &app; closes all files opened in the current session.