PDF Viewer of the Year

jeremy · 01-02-2022, 05:53 PM

A newer category.

--jeremy

rempas · 01-03-2022, 08:01 AM

Zathura

teckk · 01-03-2022, 09:22 AM

Trying to make software myself this year. Forcing myself to use my own stuff, forcing myself to learn. Either make it or do without.

I'm using my own.
One is gtk3 with cairo and poppler.

Second one is Qt5 using pdfwidgets from webengine. It's a lighter version of xpdf.

From those on the list I like xpdf the best. But it's still too heavy.

I tried zathura, it would not respond to the config file.

YesItsMe · 01-03-2022, 03:53 PM

Although it can't do certain things, I'm still happy with MuPDF.

ondoho · 01-04-2022, 10:17 AM

Something was wrong with mupdf ~1 year ago, switched to qpdfview and evince.

teckk · 01-04-2022, 11:04 AM

If anyone is interested, (Maybe no one), I looked up something that I saw a while back.

This works. Build it if you want. If you have problems, make a separate thread.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtpdf-pdfviewer-example.html

It will turn out like this. Not necessarily the color. I have a dark theme.

It is something to build upon.

Code:

curl -F'file=@pdfreadex.png' https://0x0.st
https://0x0.st/ozcY.png

https://0x0.st/ozcY.png

AkileoSlackware · 01-04-2022, 08:37 PM

How about MasterPDFEditor?

teckk · 01-05-2022, 07:40 AM

Master pdf editor

https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/

Depends
gcc-libs, glibc, qt5-base, qt5-svg, sane

i686
http://code-industry.net/public/mast...89_i386.tar.gz
x86_64
http://code-industry.net/public/mast...5.amd64.tar.gz

More recent version.

x86_64
https://code-industry.net/public/mas....x86_64.tar.gz
Depends
libgl, nspr, nss, qt5-base, qt5-svg, sane

Lucio Chiappetti · 01-05-2022, 03:28 PM

Used to acrobat reader, which I installed even when not obvious, I recently discovered atril and greatly prefer it to evince

superurmel · 01-07-2022, 03:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YesItsMe

Although it can't do certain things, I'm still happy with MuPDF.

Can't complain either. Just shows the desired PDF File. KISS-"style".

teckk · 01-07-2022, 06:41 AM

For anyone who is wanting to experiment. Here is another lighter, very functional pdf viewer, if you already have qt installed. qpdfview. Most probably in your repo.

Here is the source.
https://launchpad.net/qpdfview/trunk...-0.4.18.tar.gz

To model.h in the source tree add

Code:

#include <QPainterPath>

Everything is in the tree. It needs libcups libsynctex poppler-qt5 qt5-svg

Read the README

I compiled that with

Code:

qmake CONFIG+="without_ps without_djvu without_image" qpdfview.pro
make

I like it. It's a nice little pdf reader.

Mike_Walsh · 01-08-2022, 11:40 AM

Qpdfview, when I simply want to view PDFs. But I've also been playing around with Qoppa Software's PDFStudioViewer, if I want to do any annotating/editing....

(Yeah, PDFStudioViewer IS big. But with 6TB+ and 32GB DDR4, size/space really isn't a consideration...)

https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/

And the Whinedoze version of Foxit Reader runs OK under WINE, most of the time. Occasionally throws a wobbly, but it behaves itself 95% of the time. Their Linux version is laughable.

Mike.

shastenm76 · 01-08-2022, 10:05 PM

zathura is the best tbh