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syn0ptik Apprentice
Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Posts: 267
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 6:43 am Post subject: suggest pdf viewer |
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Hi all,
Could someone suggest me pdf viewer?
I installs mupdf, but not so comfortable.
No buttons, no scrollbar, just views the pdf file. |
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The Doctor Moderator
Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 7:16 am Post subject: |
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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 _________________ First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box. |
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i92guboj Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 10315 Location: Córdoba (Spain)
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 7:18 am Post subject: |
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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. |
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franzf Advocate
Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 7:20 am Post subject: |
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I am missing mupdf and especially () llpp there, which I am using... |
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charles17 Advocate
Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3664
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:31 am Post subject: |
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Also app-text/apvlv missing. |
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mreff555 Apprentice
Joined: 10 Mar 2011 Posts: 231 Location: Philadelphia
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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Ant P. Watchman
Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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I use the one built into Firefox. |
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mike155 Advocate
Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 4438 Location: Frankfurt, Germany
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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I like qpdfview. |
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fturco Veteran
Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 1181 Location: Italy
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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I also use qpdfview because it's nice and doesn't need GNOME/KDE dependencies. But sometimes I just open PDFs with Firefox. |
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N8Fear Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Apr 2013 Posts: 140 Location: Berlin (Germany)
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Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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I used evince and okular in the past, but now I'm quite happy with zathura (vim keybindings ftw). |
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jimmij Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 Dec 2008 Posts: 139
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Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:44 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.
Libera temet ex inferis. |
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Leio Developer
Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 494 Location: Estonia
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 6:10 am Post subject: |
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i92guboj wrote: | 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. |
No reason to mask >=3.0, as 3.x can have minimal dependencies too. Though GtkHeaderBar outside GNOME3 can be untasteful for some. 2.x will be removed soon enough. evince 3.x supports many advanced PDF features you might want, such as annotations. _________________ GNOME team lead; GStreamer; MIPS/ARM64 |
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