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Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by xavixavi on Sunday July 27, 2014 @09:47AM (#8092722)
What PDF readers on linux are 'best recommended'? I compared acroread with evince and kpdf in the past and found that acroread was the most parsimonious in use of resources (especially RAM on large documents). Have not repeated the comparison recently, so will be glad to hear about recommendations with more recent experiences with large documents with images.
Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by replax on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:59AM (#8092912)
Personally, i prefer "zathura". besides filling out forms it can do everything, with a very sleek ui and outstanding keybindings (vim-esque). I encourage you to try it :)
Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by nextos on Sunday July 27, 2014 @11:17AM (#8092959)
It's a fantastic piece of software. It can use different backends (mupdf or poppler) and it can also deal with DjVu files.
Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by sho_hn on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:35AM (#8092857)
Just some general info: Evince and Okular (the successor to kpdf) both use poppler under the hood (which is maintained/released by the Okular maintainer), so their performance and behavior will be somewhat similar, though you can make a difference at the app level with things like tiled rendering and smarter prefetching. I'm not on top of how the two compare there, though. Okular also has pluggable backends and there's an in-development mupdf backend around.
Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by falcor84 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @09:59AM (#8092750)
Firefox's builtin pdf.js reader has really matured and I switched to using it as my primary reader. It's even good enough for me to read books since it remembers the location I'm on, even if the browser process dies horribly.
Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by leni536 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:22AM (#8092809)
I use mupdf. It has a quite minimal user interface but it's fast and has really good rendering. It's written by the ghostscript guys.
Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by MegaDeKay on Sunday July 27, 2014 @11:37AM (#8093008)
I also use Okular. It has recently gotten support for keeping multiple documents in tabs rather than separate windows. However, I find it to be slow when searching big documents and slow to render large graphics in a page.
Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by pera on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:34AM (#8092851)
Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by rickisen on Sunday July 27, 2014 @12:04PM (#8093093)
I like apvlv. Very vim like. you can even split with :s and do a lot of cool stuff.
Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by cturner on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:15AM (#8092786)
One that's easy to overlook - just open in google chrome.
Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by fafner on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:21AM (#8092802)
I absolutely dislike the pdf viewer in Chrome. It fails at even the basic things a pdf reader should support. E.g., it lacks a concept of pages. You can't jump to a certain page. You can't even know the total number of pages. It doesn't support the pdf's TOC. For any pdf which contains more than one page it is therefore useless. I can't understand how the Google folks ever thought this was a good idea.

I prefer Okular or Evince for Desktop viewing and pdf.js for in browser viewing. pdf.js is a bit slow when loading the pdf. But the user interface is quite nice in my opinion.

Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by ubercow13 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:03PM (#8093268)
On the other hand its one of the (or the? at least last I checked) only pdf readers on Linux which supports subpixel rendering of text and other vector content, which makes documents much more easily readable in my opinion.