apropos pdf | less
apropos pdf | less acroread (1) - Adobe PDF Viewer for viewing PDF files on X Window System. dvipdf (1) - Convert TeX DVI file to PDF using ghostscript and dvips evince-thumbnailer (1) - create png thumbnails from PostScript and PDF documents foomatic-ppdfile (1) - Generate a PPD file for a given printer/driver combo ghostscript (1) - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer) gs (1) - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer) gsnd (1) - Run ghostscript (PostScript and PDF engine) without display pdf2dsc (1) - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document pdf2ps (1) - Ghostscript PDF to PostScript translator pdffonts (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.00) pdfimages (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version 3.00) pdfinfo (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information extractor (version 3.00) pdfopt (1) - Ghostscript PDF Optimizer pdftohtml (1) - program to convert pdf files into html, xml and png images pdftoppm (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Pixmap (PPM) converter (version 3.00) pdftops (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript converter (version 3.00) pdftotext (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.00) ps2ascii (1) - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII ps2pdf (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript ps2pdf12 (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript ps2pdf13 (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript ps2pdf14 (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript ps2pdfwr (1) - Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying CompatibilityLevel, using ghostscript (END)
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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