XCHM is a .chm viewer for UNIX (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), written by Razvan Cojocaru. Success stories of xCHM on Mac OS X have also been received, and apparently xCHM even works if compiled under the Cygwin environment in Windows. (more...)
Adobe® Reader® software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to View and interact with PDF files that contain a wide variety of content types, including drawings, email messages, spreadsheets, videos, and other multimedia elements.
Linux documentation can be found in man pages, info files, HOWTOs and FAQs, and elsewhere. (For example, also the kernel Documentation directory contains a lot of good stuff.) A nice index for the man pages in Fedora Core 2 is found at the superman site. Man pages belonging to programs are usually distributed together with those programs. (more...)
Man is a man pager. It has support for compressed pages (both man pages and cat pages), and for locale ($LANG) and for message catalogs ($LC_MESSAGES). It will format files given explicitly (man ./foo.man.gz). It conforms to FSSTND or FHS, and handles stray cats.
Based on a device-independent version of troff, groff (GNU Troff) is a document processor which reads plain text and formatting commands, produces formatted output from them, and then outputs it to another device. The package is essential for viewing online manual pages.
Simple yet powerful UNIX Manual (man, manpage) Page Editor with preview viewer / browser. Uses Manual Page XML format for easy editing, comes with tutorial and referance guide for newbies. Uses the GTK+ widget set. Features syntax highlighting, complete drag and drop system for easy viewing and editing, crash recovery system, and sample manual page templates.
SiSU is a Unix command line oriented framework for document structuring, publishing and search. Featuring minimalistic markup, multiple standard outputs, a common citation system, and granular search. (more...)
Makeman.pl is a part of MakeMan, a project to provide several frontends, GUI and non-GUI, to an SGML interface to write man pages. makeman.pl, written in Perl, parses an SGML input file and generates valid roff source that can be read by man.
Simplify the creation and deployment of MapReduce programs with IBM MapReduce Tools for Eclipse, a plug-in that can runs on Linux, Windows, or any system that can run Eclipse. It uses the Hadoop open-source MapReduce framework, which enables data-intensive applications to run on large clusters of commodity hardware.
Lout is a document formatting system. The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most laser printers and graphic display devices. Plain text and PDF (starting from version 3.12) output are also available.
Pinfo is an info file viewer similar in use to lynx. It has similar key movements, and gives similar intuition. You just move across info nodes, and select links, follow them... It supports as many colors, as it could. Pinfo also supports viewing of manual pages -- they're colorised like in the midnight commander's viewer, and additionaly they are hypertextualized (i.e. (more...)
The Missing Man Pages Poject (or m2p2) aims to provide the man-pages for various applications for UNIX-like Operating Systems, where the author did not provide an adequate man-page. (more...)
PDF Studio is an easy to use, yet powerful PDF editor tool to review and annotate PDF documents. PDF Studio support most PDF functions including commenting using all types of PDF annotations, filling PDF forms, changing security, highlighting text, assembling, applying headers and watermarks, digitally signing PDFs.
An X based reader for GNU .info files. A standalone version of axinfo. Includes internal support for gzipped .info files, and support for a multiple-directory search path.
Gjots2 is a simple jotter application for your desktop - an outline processor. You can use gjots2 to organise your jottings into a tree structure, adding thoughts and miscellany as you go. You can get it to spit out HTML, XML, postscript, pdf, man etc etc (see the online manual for an example of the HTML conversion). (more...)
Kludge is a program which will convert a user defined markup language (within some stylistic boundaries, of course) to whatever the user has defined the markup language to represent. (more...)
Gscan2pdf is a GUI to produce PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents Only two clicks are required to scan several pages and then save all or a selection as a PDF or DjVu file, including metadata if required. gscan2pdf can control regular or sheet-fed (ADF) scanners with SANE via scanimage or scanadf, and can scan multiple pages at once. (more...)
