You are not logged in.
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
Pages: 1
#1 2010-04-20 15:02:02
- manouchk
- Member
- Registered: 2008-07-29
- Posts: 306
good pdf reader 2010
Hi,
Id'like to know a good pdf reader. I'm looking in particular for a fast pdf reader with some possibilities like copying text and images.
I have compal cl 56 1.5 GHz dothan RAM 1 giga
Test on a 437,7k pdf file (3 pages)
okular have all features but is incredibly slow to load initially and each pages!
load pdf 10 s load pages
evince-gtk does not have all features load pdf 21s load pages 0 s
If I open a pdf created of 577KB created by openoffice loading is much faster about 1 second which okay!
Why is that?
Offline
#2 2010-04-20 15:39:54
- jwhendy
- Member
- Registered: 2010-04-01
- Posts: 621
Re: good pdf reader 2010
You can find a lot of info out there with google! Try out a bunch and see what you like best in the end!
- Linux.com: http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/58592
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PD … _.2F_Linux
- ghacks.net: http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/30/linux-pdf-viewers/
Anyway, there's some more reading. I use Evince... more or less because I'm used to it. I have had problems printing every once in a while, and I hate that it's default is not to display continuously (requiring a pg dn at a page break).
For editing (annotating and misc) I have used either pdfEdit or gimp.
Good luck!
Offline
#4 2010-04-21 05:32:35
- muunleit
- Member
- From: Germany
- Registered: 2008-02-23
- Posts: 234
Re: good pdf reader 2010
Foxitreader from AUR is fast!
"The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven" -- John Milton
Offline
#5 2010-04-21 05:55:41
- tomk
- Forum Fellow
- From: Ireland
- Registered: 2004-07-21
- Posts: 9,839
Re: good pdf reader 2010
epdfview works for me, and is fast enough for my purposes.
Offline
#6 2010-04-21 07:29:14
- Ogion
- Member
- From: Germany
- Registered: 2007-12-11
- Posts: 367
Re: good pdf reader 2010
My vote goes to zathura too.
Ogion
(my-dotfiles)
"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
"Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity." - Immanuel Kant
Offline
#8 2010-04-21 09:30:39
- smakked
- Member
- From: Gold Coast , Australia
- Registered: 2008-08-14
- Posts: 420
Re: good pdf reader 2010
xpdf is all i use
Certified Android Junkie
Arch 64
Offline
#9 2010-04-21 10:18:34
- Hund
- Member
- From: Sweden
- Registered: 2010-03-22
- Posts: 479
- Website
Offline
#10 2010-04-21 15:44:47
- n0dix
- Member
- Registered: 2009-09-22
- Posts: 956
Re: good pdf reader 2010
I second xpdf.
Offline
#11 2010-04-21 15:57:03
- lifeafter2am
- Member
- From: 127.0.0.1
- Registered: 2009-06-10
- Posts: 1,332
Re: good pdf reader 2010
Another vote for Zathura. I recently switched from xpdf, and couldn't be happier.
#binarii @ irc.binarii.net
Matrix Server: https://matrix.binarii.net
-------------
Allan -> ArchBang is not supported because it is stupid.
Offline
#13 2010-04-24 06:29:33
- der_joachim
- Member
- From: the Netherlands
- Registered: 2008-12-17
- Posts: 143
- Website
Re: good pdf reader 2010
+1 for epdfviewer. It is not perfect, but works well for me.
Geek, runner, motorcyclist and professional know-it-all
Offline
#14 2010-04-24 09:45:34
- dptkby
- Member
- Registered: 2009-07-02
- Posts: 64
Re: good pdf reader 2010
there's mupdf. It's very fast, but currently has no features like selecting and copying. It renders, and you can zoom & scroll.
... although the AUR package seems to need updating, apparently the project has moved to http://mupdf.com and last time I tried to build it it didn't work. Of course, pointing this out to the maintainer would probably be a good idea...
Offline
#15 2010-04-24 11:34:28
- SYSTEMEDIC
- Member
- From: Izmir
- Registered: 2010-03-10
- Posts: 24
- Website
Offline
#16 2010-04-24 12:24:48
- Ultraman
- Member
- Registered: 2009-12-24
- Posts: 242
Re: good pdf reader 2010
mupdf for simple reading. love it. Best rendering after xpdf.
When I need more functionality I go to epdfview, but it's rendering isn't that spectacular.
Last edited by Ultraman (2010-04-24 12:25:28)
Offline
#17 2010-04-24 15:03:41
- gtfernandezm
- Member
- From: Eliot, ME
- Registered: 2010-04-06
- Posts: 38
Re: good pdf reader 2010
I just looked at zathura, I had been using xpdf, but wasnt' incredibly impressed. Zathura looks perfect, well rounded program which really adheres to the KISS aesthetic I have been going for on this system. It fits perfectly on my text based system, and is a great partner to uzbl. Glad I don't have to go for a real gui app for pdfs, I was thinking I might.
Offline
#18 2010-04-24 19:27:06
- lagagnon
- Member
- From: an Island in the Pacific...
- Registered: 2009-12-10
- Posts: 1,087
- Website
Re: good pdf reader 2010
I recently discovered epdfView to be very slow on certain pdf files with lots of colour, especially a Gigbyte motherboard manual of 125 pages in length I recently downloaded. xpdf is faster by at least 5-10x in rendering the pages.
Philosophy is looking for a black cat in a dark room. Metaphysics is looking for a black cat in a dark room that isn't there. Religion is looking for a black cat in a dark room that isn't there and shouting "I found it!". Science is looking for a black cat in a dark room with a flashlight.
Offline
#19 2010-04-24 20:32:46
- skottish
- Forum Fellow
- From: Here
- Registered: 2006-06-16
- Posts: 7,942
Re: good pdf reader 2010
One really cool thing about zathura is neldoreth is accessible to discuss bugs, feature requests, patches, and suggestions here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80458
This is a happy thing.
Offline
Pages: 1