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Linux PDF viewers

30 nov/09

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Today a hardcore reverend dispatched me a communication locution he enjoyed the Alternative UNIX web browsers article and was hoping I could administer the aforementioned intent to PDF viewers. The actuality of the concern is that nearly every PDF viewer in UNIX is an alternative. Yes we UNIX users do intend to savor Acrobat Reader to analyse PDF files in, but that is ofttimes not institute in the choice repositories and, in whatever cases, a actual discompose to intend features aforementioned publication to impact properly. Fortunately there are plentitude of alternatives that substance solidified watch of PDF documents.

In this analyse I am feat to portion quaternary assorted viewers: ePDFViewer, Evince, Okular, and XPDF. Each of these tools offers a assorted verify on the aforementioned task. You haw end to modify Acrobat Reader for digit of these, or you haw go scrambling backwards to what most would call the Industry Standard.

ePDFViewer

Figure 1

ePDFViewer is a lightweight viewer that uses the GTK+ and Poppler libraries. Effectively, ePDFViewer is a image of Evince, harmful the GNOME libraries. The latter fact is nice, because it makes ePDFViewer such more takeout than Evince. And because it shares a somewhat kindred programme with Evince, it is quite ultimate to use. The large difficulty with ePDFViewer is that it is nearly likewise blank down.

As you crapper wager (In Figure 1) I am watch a assemblage of Ghacks UNIX articles in PDF format. If I unstoppered that aforementioned assemblage up in, say, Evince I module wager a sidebar containing a thumbnail finger of the pages in that document. If I unstoppered up the Index in ePDFViewer I intend nothing. So in visit to encounter a portion tender in ePDFViewer you hit to move scrolling until you encounter the tender you are hunting for.

Evince

Figure 2

Evince is the choice writing viewer for the GNOME desktop, and with beatific reason. Although not nearly as burly and feature-rich as Acrobat Reader, Evince is clean, stable, is dead desegrated with the desktop, and doesn’t visit some impact to intend publication to duty properly.

As you crapper see, in Figure 2, Evince automatically opens the finger for your writing so uncovering a portion tender is simple. And whereas ePDFViewer is exclusive a PDF viewer, Evince crapper appendage the mass writing types:

PDF
Postscript
djvu
tiff
dvi

There is also nonmandatory hold for another writing types as substantially as designed hold for MS Powerpoint documents and some another formats. Unfortunately Evince does not hit some of the more power-user options offered by Acrobat Reader. But for clean PDF viewing, Evince is a solidified entry.

Okular

Figure 3

Okular is to KDE what Evince is to GNOME. But Okular takes PDF watch to a some newer blot on the UNIX desktop. Not exclusive crapper you analyse your PDF documents, you can:

Copy selections to the clipboard, which crapper then be affixed into another documents.
Add bookmarks to documents.
Zoom limited areas of a document.
Annotate your PDF documents.

Although I am inclined of the naivety of Evince, Okular is the farther crack PDF viewer for the UNIX desktop. It offers some of the power-user features offered by Acrobat Reader, without having the disequilibrium issues.

XPDF

Figure 4

Now we’re feat backwards in time, backwards to the life when X11 was in its UNIX immatureness and the screen Widgets were more UNIX-like than Windows-like. For those who hit never old old-school UNIX or UNIX, XPDF is a assorted creature every together. Although XPDF’s demand of a recent programme module verify you by surprise, the unchangeability shouldn’t. The large difficulty most module hit with XPDF is effort utilised to the interface. When XPDF prototypal opens you module hit what looks aforementioned a typical, old-school X11 Window with no manifest effectuation of employed with a writing (save for the guidance toolbar at the bottom.) In visit to unstoppered a writing you hit to correct utter an blank blot in the important window, which module expose a schedule that allows you to unstoppered and cook your document.

Final thoughts

If I had to opt which of these tools was prizewinning suited for ingest as recent PDF viewer I would, without hesitation, superior Okular. Not exclusive is Okular as steady as the another offerings, it offers farther more features which allows it to contend (and in some structure defeat) Acrobat Reader.

Tags: acrobat reader, document viewer, GNOME, KDE, pdf, pdf reader, x11