Free PDF Reader

© 2002-2009 Gnostice Information Technologies Private Limited

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Getting Started
  3. Known Issues

Introduction

Gnostice Free PDF Reader is a portable, fast and low-footprint PDF reader/printer application. Free PDF Reader is powered by the PDF Reader component from the latest and greatest version of Gnostice PDFOne for the Java™ platform, a PDF component suite targeted at Java developers for accomplishing PDF-related tasks. Free PDF Reader will be updated along with future releases of Gnostice PDFOne for Java platform.

This README file contains late-breaking information that may not be contained anywhere else. We strongly recommend that you read this README file before you get started.

Getting Started

Extract contents of the downloaded zip file (freepdferader.zip) to a convenient location. Check that the following files have been extracted.

  1. FreePDFReader.jar
  2. readme.html
  3. license.html
  4. history.html
  5. pdfonejfont.dll
  6. libpdfonejfont.so
  7. libpdfonejfont_x64.so
  8. libpdfonejfont.jnilib

To start the application, double-click FreePDFReader.jar. If the application does not start, the reason could be that you have not installed Java Runtime Environment or because the .jar file type in your computer is not associated with javaw.exe. For more information, please read the article Free PDF Reader - A Portable PDF Reader for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Known Issues

The following features are not supported:

Note: Free PDF Reader uses a FreeType Library for accurate rendering of fonts. Currently, Free PDF Reader uses FreeType binaries for Windows (32-bit & 64-bit DLLs), Linux (32-bit & 64-bit .so) and Mac (.jnilib). These binaries should be in the same directory as FreePDFReader.jar.


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