The command-line programs pdfopen and pdfclose allow you to control the X Window System version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader from the command line or from within a (shell) script. Supports Acrobat Reader 5.0.10 and 7.0 for Linux.

This version derives from one written by Fabrice Popineau for Microsoft operating systems.

The authors are Jim Diamond, Taco Hoekwater and Fabrice Popineau.