Best pdf reader for Linux

adrian2009 · 04-08-2010, 02:49 PM

I recently opened one not so large pdf document (~44 Mb) with Okular, and it behaved really slow. I saw in top that it was leaking 99.9% of my CPU so i had to shut it down, and i came to idea to start a topic like this.

What in your opinion is the best pdf reader for linux - the fastest, the most advanced, the most user friendly, the most "hardware friendly", etc. etc.

bret381 · 04-08-2010, 02:53 PM

I used Document Viewer or xpf for a while. Adobe released acrobat reader for linux, so I'm using it now. You can download it here:

http://get.adobe.com/reader/

MTK358 · 04-08-2010, 03:24 PM

I used Evince before, now I mostly use Okular.

I don't see any point for using crappy proprietary software (Acrobat Reader) if a great Linux alternative exists.

craigevil · 04-08-2010, 11:16 PM

Okular works just fine for me, but I do not use kde. Instead I use lxde and use the apps that work for me.

I only have a few kde apps installed, k3b, okular, k9copy, smplayer, and a few kde games. Same goes for gnome apps, gdm, gparted, gedit, gnome-mplayer, gvim.

Aquarius_Girl · 04-09-2010, 05:06 AM

I used Adobe reader for huge documents but found it to be slow !

Then I used Evince , it's much faster !

Super TWiT · 04-11-2010, 07:18 PM

I use evince as it is the only pdf reader I have seen so far that on Linux that automatically remembers the last page you were on for a pdf document. That is really important if you read long documents. (Use evince-gtk to have envice without gnome dependencies) It is fairly lightweight too.

MTK358 · 04-11-2010, 07:20 PM

Okular remembers where you last were, too.