Documents that need to be shared or printed across platforms can be
saved as PDF (Portable Document Format) files, for example, in the
OpenOffice.org suite. View them with Okular, the default KDE document
viewer.
Using Okular Document Viewer
Apart from PDF files, Okular allows you to view a great number of file
formats, such as PostScript, several image formats, OpenDocument format
(ODF), OpenDocument text (ODT), some eBook formats (ePub), and even
Microsoft* Compiled HTML Help (CHM). Okular also provides support for
bookmarks, annotations, form fields and multimedia contents, and
rotation of pages.
Start Okular from the main menu or press Alt+F2 and enter
okular.
To open a document, select and choose the desired file from
the file system. Navigate through the document by using the navigation
icons at the top or bottom of the window. Depending on which icon you
click on the navigation panel on the left, the sidebar either shows a
table of , a
view of each page, the for this file, or
your for this file. To filter for any text
listed in the sidebar or the overall document, enter a string into the
input field at the top of the sidebar. If you want to select and copy
text or images from the file in Okular, click the
icon in the toolbar and select one of the
options from the context menu. Click the icon
to switch back to browsing the document.
Working with Bookmarks and Annotations
With Okular, you can review a document by highlighting certain text
parts or adding annotations or bookmarks that Okular then attaches to
the file in form of metadata. Note that the annotations and markers
you add are not stored within the document, so you cannot print them
or pass them on to other users.
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To add a bookmark for a page, click the page in the sidebar or in the
main display field and press Ctrl+B. The page is added to the
list on the left sidebar. Right-click
the bookmark entry to access a context menu for going to this
bookmark or renaming, or removing it.
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To create an annotation for a page, press F6 and
select one of the annotation tools from the toolbar that appears. The
annotation is added to the list of and is
flagged with the login name of the user who created it. Use the icons
at the bottom of the sidebar to group the annotations by page, by
author or to show the annotations for the current page only.
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To open a pop-up note and add text for an annotation (or to remove an
annotation), right-click the annotation entry in the
list and select the respective menu item.
The annotations or markers you added are automatically attached to
the file, you do not need to save them.
Using Acrobat Reader
If Acrobat Reader is not installed by default, install the
acroread package with YaST. To start Acrobat
reader, press Alt+F2 and enter acroread or start the program
from the main menu. Click , locate the desired PDF file and
click to view the file.
