Comments on: Linux PDF viewers

By: pat toche

pat toche — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:06:17 +0000

okular is awful on my system, cropping my pdflatex articles too much and inconsistently, so I was googling for an alternative, but I’m amazed at how everyone seems satisfied by it. The same pdf looks absolutely normal in evince, xpdf, gv, foxit, acrobat, pdfxchange, to name but a few I’ve tried on both linux and windows… I think I’m going for evince.

By: Happy linux user

Happy linux user — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:06:35 +0000

Zathura – thank you ever so much – Marcus Wanner, you saved my day!

(Been using xpdf for way too long – since ’99 actually, thought it was the least bad pdf viewer – I mean, evince, apvlv, okular – come on already!)

By: Marcus Wanner

Marcus Wanner — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:19:21 +0000

Don’t forget zathura. Very light; stays out of your way.

By: James Blunt

James Blunt — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:57:04 +0000

And why can none of them zoom in more than 400% ?!?

Acrobat has no problem zooming to 1600% and greater.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:54:13 +0000

As far as I can tell, none of these readers support annotations. PDFedit (http://pdfedit.petricek.net/en/index.html) is somewhat inconvenient to use as a PDF reader, but it allows you to read, manipulate, and add annotations.

By: What has happened to PDF viewers?????? - openSUSE Forums

What has happened to PDF viewers?????? - openSUSE Forums — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:22:41 +0000

[...] In truth, from what I saw reference to sometime back on the openSUSE mailing lists, acrocread is very close to being completely removed from the openSUSE distribution as a Novell packaged rpm, as the replacements (okular and evince) in the openSUSE community are considered by some to be more than adequate. I only ever use it with Windows/Vista environments. Okular is my preferred pdf reading app. Linux PDF viewers [...]

By: Jack Shaftoe

Jack Shaftoe — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:39:00 +0000

There is no good pdf viewer.

I have tried now epdfview, xpdf, kpdf, evince, foxit, acrobat on a debian lenny 2 GB ram dual core computer with a nvidia 7600 graphics card.

They are all slow during scrolling. No way reading a book or big manual. Try loading a pdf with 20 or better 100 pages, perhaps reduce the height to even scroll over a single page of the document.

Fast switching of pages and scrolling like reading a book is not possible. PDF sucks!

I had to pay 50 bucks to get a printed version of the pdf, just because using the computer is to slow to get things done in time.

By: Nikos Karagiannakis

Nikos Karagiannakis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:15:28 +0000

If only Okular could print odd or even pages separately.

By: Don Birdsall

Don Birdsall — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:38:12 +0000

Another pdf reader that should be included in this collection is the Foxit Reader. It can be downloaded from Foxit’s page at http://www.foxitsoftware.com. I preferred it to the Adobe product back in my Windows days and continue to use it in GNU/Linux.

By: Programe de vizualizare PDF | Cunoastere

Programe de vizualizare PDF | Cunoastere — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:34:48 +0000

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By: Johny

Johny — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:47:20 +0000

I use PDFs a lot for work. I agree with all your comments, Okular is far best (even better than Acroread, imo).

Evince is good as well, and I use it a lot as well.

Evenice problem: Some document fonts are not correctly rendered. That is related to the libraries it uses; for those documents, I typically use Acroread, which always works.

Okular problem: I like the annotations bit, but unfortunately, I do not yet know on how to save a PDF with the annotations made — I wished that would be more obvious.

Acroread problem: I do not like the interface that much; I like to press “/” to search and get a search box at the bottom of the screen.

By: Linux PDF viewers - Raymond.CC Forum

Linux PDF viewers - Raymond.CC Forum — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:57:41 +0000

[...] for one of these, or you may go scrambling back to what most would call the Industry Standard. http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/30/linux-pdf-viewers/ A [...]

By: Ronen

Ronen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:10:01 +0000

as a Kubuntu user, i really love Okular and i agree with Jack’s comments about it’s abilities. As a long time user of Foxit Reader on Windows, i tried to use it on Kubuntu (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/) but i found it immature. It is another option to the apps described here, though.