GREEN - A light weight PDF reader

NAME

green - a lightweight PDF reader for the Framebuffer using libpoppler

SYNOPSIS

green [options] <PDF file 1> [PDF file 2] ...

DESCRIPTION

green is meant to be a light PDF reader for the Linux Framebuffer. However, it can also be used inside a graphical X11 Session like GNOME or MATE.

green features:

• uses libpoppler for PDF reading
• uses SDL to support various frontends (including framebuffer)
• multiple documents
• single page mode
• fit width, height or page
• zooming
• goto page
• search function
• scheme support

OPTIONS

-fit= with one of none, width, height or page tp select the program wide page fitting mode. -width= with an integer greate equal zero (in pixels) to specify the startup width of the window. -height= with an integer greate equal zero (in pixels) to specify the startup height of the window. -fullscreen= startup in fullscreen mode. -nofullscreen= startup in window mode. -config= with a file name of a configuration file. -scheme= with an <id list> (see below) to select a different scheme.

PROGRAM OPERATION

<TAB> - Go to the next open document.
<F<n>> - Go to the n-th document.
ESC - Escape current input mode.
q - Quit

NAVIGATION INSIDE A DOCUMENT

<h, left arrow> - Scroll left.
<l, right arrow> - Scroll right.
<j, down arrow> - Scroll down.
<k, up arrow> - Scroll up.
<pg up> - Go to previous page.
<pg dn> - Go to next page.
<g<n>RETURN> - Go to page n.
<+,-> - Zoom in, Zoom out.
c - close document.

FITTING

fn - disable page fitting mode. fw - fit page width. fh - fit page height. fp - fit whole page.

SEARCHING

s<X><RETURN> - Start search for string X. n - Show next result.

OTHER STUFF

When starting green in Framebuffer console you might see an error regarding the mouse. If you don't need mouse in the console:

SDL_NOMOUSE=1 ./green 

Should work around the problem. Other wise you should be able to use the mouse in the Framebuffer as none root user. On Debian based distributions:

Create new file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-input.rules:

# file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-input.rules
KERNEL=="mice", NAME="input/%k", MODE="664", GROUP="input"
KERNEL=="mouse*", NAME="input/%k", MODE="664", GROUP="input"

Then issue:

groupadd input
usermod -a -G input [your_username]

Restart your computer and you should be able to use the mouse with SDL.

FILES

$(HOME)/.green.conf
Per user configuration file.

/usr/local/etc/green.conf
The system wide configuration file.

AUTHOR

The Green source code may be downloaded from http://github.com/schandinat/green/.
Green is Licensed under GNU GPL version 3.
This man page was written for the Debian GNU / Linux System by Oz Nahum nahumoz@gmail.com.