📅 2014-Aug-22 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ fbgs, fbi, pdf, ps, viewer ⬩ 📚 Archive
Framebuffer Ghostscript Viewer (fbgs) can be used to view PostScript (PS) and PDF files at the terminal. However, it only works with real terminals (/dev/tty
) and not with pseudo terminals (/dev/pts
).
fbgs ships along with the fbi package. So, to install it:
$ sudo apt install fbi
To be enable use of the program by any user, the username must be added to video
group:
$ sudo adduser joe video
To view a PDF file:
$ fbgs foo.pdf
Tried with: FBI 2.07-11 and Ubuntu 14.04