Free pdf Readers

If you do not already have an application that can read (and print) the universal Portable Document Format (pdf) files you can get a free Reader from sites such as those listed below. You will probably need a reader that can handle files generated by version 3 of Acrobat.

Free pdf Reader for RISC OS

• !PDF — A pdf reader for RISC OS/Acorn computers (version 0.73a)
  

• !Pdf — A later version pdf reader for RISC OS/Acorn computers (version 0.92)
  

   

Free pdf Readers for Other platforms

Adobe Acrobat Free Reader — pdf readers for many computers including Macintosh, Windows 3.1 & 95/98, NT, Linux, OS2, Unix (various)

• Adobe Acrobat Viewer (for Java)
  

xpdf: a PDF viewer for X — pdf readers for X windows on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

RiScript

RiScript from Cerilica is an excellent commercial application which reads PostScript (PoScript) and Portable Document Format (pdf) files. However the main reason a RISC OS user may want to own it is its ability to take PoScript or pdf files and output them as pdf, PoScript or Drawfile format. This makes high quality pdf publishing for web or paper very easy.

Visit Cerilica to find out more about RiScript.

There is a free alternative for this kind of publishing (pdf for web and paper) using GhostScript. I may add information about Ghostscript for RISC OS to this site later.