[SOLVED] light weight viewer for pdf file

Joseph_sys · Last edited by Joseph_sys on Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:21 am; edited 1 time in total

I was always using xpdf but it seems to me nobody maintain it anymore, before the package was masked but now it will be remove.

rsa4046 · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:53 pm Post subject:

If you're a vim user, there is apvlv, has mostly poppler and gtk+ dependencies. I think it is pretty light. Evince is not bad, if you have some gnome libs already installed.

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Joseph_sys · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:57 pm Post subject:

nordic bro · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 585

it's pretty spartan but I just use emacs

so if you already have emacs you woulnd't need to add another pkg although I never need to do anything fancy w/pdf like bookmarking or anything so it might be too simplistic for your needs. its "docview" menu in emacs has a print but I've never tried it.

Joseph_sys · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:08 pm Post subject:

I don't have emacs, installed so adding it just to view and print pdf files might not be practical.
xpdf is perfect but has no maintainers :-/
Most of the time I need to search document print it, resize it (nothing fancy). I would like to see simple menu on the screen as well.

Hypnos · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:56 am Post subject:

I use evince with the GNOME-related USE flags deactivated -- works fine. Just as light as xpdf, and works better than it ever did for heavy documents and presentations.
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Joseph_sys · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:21 am Post subject:

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How about updating the package instead of removing it?
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/index.html tells that the newest xpdf is 3.03 but in portage last is 3.02, and according to http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/CHANGES many fixes have been implemented since 3.02.
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yngwin · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:18 pm Post subject:

It would still need somebody willing to maintain it.
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smartass · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:27 pm Post subject:

Lightweight ? app-text/zathura ... vim-like UI, is fast, has search, fullscreen, just a 116K binary.
Do you need more ?

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yngwin · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:13 am Post subject:

If you want a light-weight PDF viewer with a nice GUI, then look at app-text/epdfview (GTK+) or app-text/qpdfview (Qt).
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lost-distance · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 73

Thanks for the suggestions.

I have used epdfview for years, but it is becoming ever less reliable, as noted in this thread. For example, it is very slow to page through some files, and more recently the content simply disappears when I try to zoom within other files.

I would like to investigate qpdfview, but it is currently marked as unstable for amd64, and it uses the Qt toolkit which is otherwise absent on my system (not a fatal problem, just annoying).

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Hypnos · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: Evince without GNOME

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does this one count???

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