Xpdf

Please note that this application page is referring to the old CentOS software stack which is obsolete and does not work any more with the new Ubuntu setup. You can find an overview on the Ubuntu software stack on this wiki page.

Category

PDF, Visualization

Description

Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Available versions (Euler, old software stack)

Legacy versions	Supported versions	New versions
	3.03

Please note that this page refers to installations from the old software stack. There are two software stacks on Euler. Newer versions of software are found in the new software stack.

Environment modules (Euler, old software stack)

Version	Module load command	Additional modules loaded automatically
3.03	module load xpdf/3.03

Please note that this page refers to installations from the old software stack. There are two software stacks on Euler. Newer versions of software are found in the new software stack.

Interactive session

In order to run xpdf on the Euler cluster, you need to connect with SSH, having X11 forwarding enabled. After logging in to Euler, you can start xpdf with the command xpdf

module load xpdf/3.03
xpdf my_document.pdf

If you would like to use the shell for some other purpose, then you can also start xpdf in the background.

Example

As an example for opening a PDF document on the cluster, we are having a look at the BOT of IT services.

Xpdf example for displayng a PDF document on the Euler cluster. Please click on the picture to see a larger version

License information

GPLv2

Links

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf