suggest pdf viewer

syn0ptik · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Posts: 267

Hi all,

Could someone suggest me pdf viewer?
I installs mupdf, but not so comfortable.
No buttons, no scrollbar, just views the pdf file.

The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

I'd say that depends on what you need. If your a KDE user or are okay with KDE apps, okular is an excellent. If you want a lightweight application app-text/qpdfview is fairly nice.

If you need to read things like mathematical documents or other such complex things you may need the full power of the proprietary setup from adobe. In that case, use acroread.

There is actually some information on the wiki
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i92guboj · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 7:18 am Post subject:

Over the years, I've found that evince is a good compromise.

I don't use gnome but that's ok because evince has not too many dependencies. Oh, of course you have to mask >=3.0 and use the 2.x branch.

franzf · Advocate Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565

charles17 · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3664

Also app-text/apvlv missing.

mreff555 · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 4:22 pm Post subject:

I actually use both mupdf and adobe acrobat's linux port.
Normally I subscribe to the theory of one program for one job, and prefer to steer clear of for profit software, but the fact is Acrobat has a lot more features than the others which I occasionally need. If you just need a simple minimal PDF reader mupdf is great.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

I use the one built into Firefox.

mike155 · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 1:48 pm Post subject:

I like qpdfview.

fturco · Veteran Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 1181 Location: Italy

I also use qpdfview because it's nice and doesn't need GNOME/KDE dependencies. But sometimes I just open PDFs with Firefox.

N8Fear · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 9:52 pm Post subject:

I used evince and okular in the past, but now I'm quite happy with zathura (vim keybindings ftw).

jimmij · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Dec 2008 Posts: 139

xpdf
Since the day when it was removed from the portage tree I've tried probably everything, but at the end I had to create my own overlay just for this one single package. :roll:

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