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Dogs1985

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lightweight pdf view?

can anyone tell me which pdf view is best, fast, and also lightweight.

mikesd

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Registered: 2008-02-01

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

I normally use xpdf or epdfview. They are both lightweight and fast enough for me. epdfview depends on gtk but not gnome which suits me. At the moment I am using epdfview.

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Dogs1985

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

because i'm using fluxbox. epdfview? i try first.

sHyLoCk

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

Check out the wiki for more lightweight applications.

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bernarcher

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

Very fast, lightweight and vi-like controlled via keyboard: apvlv

Last edited by bernarcher (2009-09-16 06:18:35)

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mikesd

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

Very fast, lightweight and vi-like controlled via keyboard: apvlv

apvlv looks interesting. Will have a play with it. Haven't heard of it before.

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orschiro

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

I recommend evince-gtk from the AUR. The default pdfviewer from Gnome without any Gnome dependencies. Simply great.

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alterecco

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

I second apvlv. Since using it I now find pdf's tolerable to read.
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zowki

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

I use xpdf, it has very few dependencies and is light.

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andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

Does any of them save the page you were when you closed the app? (eg. I was reading page 20 of a paper, I closed it to do something else, and then, when I open this paper again, it opens already on page 20). This is the reason I'm stuck with evince.

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muunleit

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 234

Re: lightweight pdf view?

+1 for xpdf, it can look nicer than default, if you do a little configuration on it.

.Xresources

xpdf*shadowThickness : 1
xpdf*initialZoom : width
xpdf*foreground : #2e3436
xpdf*background : #eeeeec

and take a look in the .xdfrc

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lmsguerr

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Registered: 2008-05-20

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

You could also try Foxit Reader for linux. It doesn't have any dependencies... but i think it is a bit slow on load though!

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arunix

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

What About "evince"?

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andre.ramaciotti

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

*ahem*, lightweight...

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skottish

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

*ahem*, lightweight...

evince itself is lightweight. Stripping the Gnome dependencies is all that's needed.

andre.ramaciotti

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Re: lightweight pdf view?

Sorry, I forgotten that there is a lighter version of it.

The last time I tried, evince-gtk took so long to compile that I ^C it. It was an old computer, though. I'll try it again one of these days.

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