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Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by naner on Sunday July 27, 2014 @12:12PM (#8093124)
Your primary choices in renderers are the following:

    - XPDF - the OG *nix PDF renderer.

    - Poppler (fork of xpdf). Probably most featureful,
      different features supported among different 
      implementations (e.g. Evince and Okular appear to 
      behave differently and have different feature sets).

    - Mupdf, newer code base, made by Ghostscript team. Only 
      supports rendering PDFs and XPS. No fancy javascript 
      or form support.

    - PDF.js via Mozilla browsers.

    - PDFium via Chrome-based browsers.
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Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by abrowne on Sunday July 27, 2014 @05:52PM (#8094099)
PDF.js is not limited to Firefox. Here's a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc...
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Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by skymt on Sunday July 27, 2014 @03:23PM (#8093689)
MuPDF claims to support forms and JavaScript as of version 1.2.
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