Subhash For Linux Users If you are using Linux, please read the article for installation instructions. February 2009 saw the release of a new office productivity application called. This was originally planned as a technology demonstrator for the PDF viewer component of our Java PDF library. However, Free PDF Reader was released as a full-fledged product. Free PDF Reader, as the name indicates, is a free PDF reader application. It can also print PDF documents and export PDF pages to several image formats.
Free PDF Reader was packaged as a portable application, that is, it did not have an installer. You can carry it around in a USB flash drive and run it on any Windows, Linux, or Mac computer that has latest Java Runtime Environment from Sun (Unfortunately, OpenJDK is not supported.) The runtime environment can be downloaded from. Getting Started To start using Free PDF Reader in Windows, you need to: • Get the. • Extract the contents of the download file to a convenient location on your hard disk. • Open the folder location in Windows Explorer. • Right-click the FreePDFReader.jar file to display its shortcut (context) menu.
• Select the Open with option on the shorcut menu and then select Choose Program. • In the Open with dialog that opens next, select Browse button. This will display a Open With dialog box. • Navigate to the folder where Sun Java runtime is installed. On my computer, I would go to C: Program Files Java jre1.6.0_06 bin.
• In the bin folder, select javaw.exe and click on Open. • Back in the Open With dialog, click on OK. The FreePDFReader.jar will then be loaded and executed by the Sun Java Platform SE binary (javaw.exe) and Free PDF Reader will be displayed. Tip: If you set javaw.exe as the default application for the 'jar' file type, then you will be able to simply click the FreePDFReader.jar file to launch Free PDF Reader. Alternatively, you can create a shortcut or use the Run dialog box in the Start menu with a command similar to: 'C: Program Files Java jre1.6.0_06 bin javaw.exe' -jar 'c: freepdfreader FreePDFReader.jar' If you try this option, please replace the paths of javaw.exe path and FreePDFReader.jar with the correct locations from your computer. You need to use quotation marks if the paths contain spaces. Set Free PDF Reader As Your Default PDF Reader If you wish to make Free PDF Reader as your default PDF viewer in Windows, follow these steps.
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(I have used Windows XP as the example. Add ins available for excel for mac 2011. I have assumed that the extension 'PDF' is already registered as a known file type and is associated with some other application, say, Adobe Reader.) Please get the help of a Windows expert if these steps seem complicated.) • Open Folder Options applet from the Control Panel. • Select File Types tab.
• Under column Extensions, select PDF and click on the Advanced button below. • In the Edit File Type dialog that opens, click on the New button. • In the New Action dialog box, enter Open with Free PDF Reader in the Action text box and enter 'C: Program Files Java jre1.6.0_06 bin javaw.exe' -jar 'c: freepdfreader FreePDFReader.jar' '%1' in the Application used to perform action: text box. PLEASE REPLACE PATH OF javaw.exe AND FreePDFReader.jar WITH CORRECT PATHS FROM YOUR COMPUTER. • Click on OK to return to Edit File Type dialog. • Click on Set Default button if you want to make Free PDF Reader as the default PDF viewer. If you do not select this option, then Free PDF Reader will be available as an additional option on the Windows Explorer shortcut menu for PDF files.