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bokiscout

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Registered: 2015-09-27

Posts: 24

[SOLVED] pdf viewer

Hi, I'm looking into light weight and fast pdf viewer suitable for slow hardware that can do this:

- to select text by using the mouse
- to change the background color around the document (not he color of the documents it self)
- to show pages in a continuous view (not only one page at a time, but multiple. Each page is bellow the previous one)

And that's all I need, nothing extra will be required.

Apparently qpdfview, which I'm using on the primary machine, have all this features but I'm looking into even lighter replacement for my slow lap-top.

I don't have quite a lot of spare tame to play around with multiple software so if you know some that satisfy my requirements I will appreciate.

Last edited by bokiscout (2016-01-11 14:14:13)

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ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,634

Re: [SOLVED] pdf viewer

I don't know how lightweight it is in comparison with qpdfview, but perhaps zathura might be worth a try.

It certainly fullfils the second and third requirements, whereas for the first one, you can do rectangular selections, and it copies all the text inside that selection to the clipboard.
It also has vim-like keybindings (hjkl, `:` to run command/open documents), but you can also use arrow keys and mouse to scroll/zoom your way through if you don't like vim.

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bokiscout

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Registered: 2015-09-27

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] pdf viewer

@ayekat: Thank You,  zuthara is exactly what I was looking for.

Edit: I'm marking it as solved.

Last edited by bokiscout (2016-01-11 14:13:35)

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