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Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by skavi on Saturday May 07, 2022 @10:39AM (#31294852)
This is a nice app, and the best pdf viewer i could find for windows. that said, the scrolling behavior sucks on both windows and a debian build i tried it on.
Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by rg111 on Saturday May 07, 2022 @11:49AM (#31295518)
> the best pdf viewer i could find for windows

I haven’t used Windows for at least half a decade, but I remember using Sumatra PDF, and thought that was the best pdf viewer for windows.

It's free, extremely light -weight and feature rich. And reads a lot formats- epub, mobi, cbr, you name it.

You should definitely try Sumatra PDF.

Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by zuminator on Saturday May 07, 2022 @09:07PM (#31300292)
I use Sumatra frequently, and while it's great at what it does, there's a lot it doesn't do. It's strictly a viewer only, so it doesn't even have rudimentary annotations like highlights or underlines. As an epub/mobi reader it's even more lacking. It won't allow you to search for or copy words, despite being able to do so with pdfs. Also, there are some azw3 that are effectively mobi, but Sumatra won't load them unless you rename them with the mobi extension.
Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by golemarms on Sunday May 08, 2022 @10:41AM (#31304484)
>It's strictly a viewer only, so it doesn't even have rudimentary annotations like highlights or underlines

SumatraPDF supports basic annotations as of version 3.3 https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Editing-annotations

Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by zuminator on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:15AM (#31406634)
Only for PDFs, not for the text based document formats. But yes, you're 100% correct!
Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by GreeningRun on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:38PM (#31296721)
Can't be agree more I use Sumatra every day
Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by Multicomp on Saturday May 07, 2022 @10:24PM (#31300657)
I moved from Sumatra to okular because the latter has more features and is not perceptibly slower.
Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by marcodiego on Saturday May 07, 2022 @05:48PM (#31298904)
Not multi-platform, unfortunately.
Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by MegaDeKay on Saturday May 07, 2022 @04:44PM (#31298394)
What is wrong with the scrolling behavior? It seems fine to me. I just tried it on Arch: scrolling with Page Down and during Find is instant and works exactly like I would expect. I like that you can configure the Page Up/Down overlap for scrolling as well.
Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by skavi on Saturday May 07, 2022 @06:59PM (#31299429)
Sorry, I should have specified touchpad scrolling. (two finger drag)
Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by Tmpod on Saturday May 07, 2022 @07:31PM (#31299662)
Works excellently well from my experience, even on a 144Hz display
Re:Okular – Universal document viewer by skavi on Monday May 09, 2022 @07:47PM (#31321430)
The machines I’ve tried it on were a Dell Latitude with a Windows Precision touchpad and a friend’s Dell XPS 13 running debian.

In fact in the second case, I recommended the app, and my friend rejected because he felt the touchpad scrolling was off.