Alternative to Adobe Reader

hi

I'm looking for alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader, a slim free PDF Reader with browser plugin, for seamonkey or firefox.
 
The browser plugin isn't necessary, you can set Firefox or other browsers to display PDF files with the viewer when it asks what application to use. The only difference is it will be in a separate window.
 
xpdf is better than epdfview.
I had some technical pdfs that epdfview wasn't rendering correctly.
xpdf was rendering them much better
 
sramaswamy said:
Hi wblock,

Could you please tell us how you compiled graphics/mupdf?

All I did was comment out the BROKEN= does not build line in the Makefile, just to see what the error was... but it built and worked. Of course it could be dangerous/unsafe/problematic because it was marked broken in the first place.
 
killasmurf86 said:
xpdf is better than epdfview.
I hag some technical pdfs that epdfview wasn't rendering correctly.
xpdf was rendering them much better

Actually Xpdf is one of the buggiest peaces of the software with many different patches floating all around Internet. The only advantage of Xpdf over epdfview is PDF rendering library which is the heart of any PDF viewer. I share your opinion that Xpdf rendering library is far better than Poppler used by Epdfview and few other PDF viewers (mostly Gnome related). I think that Okular is using Poppler as a rendering library just like epdfview so it is the same thing under the hood.

The best PDF rendering library by ten miles (open and close source included) is the one used by SumatraPDF viewer originally written for Windows. The library and a supper light PDF viewers are ported to Unix under the name mupdf. If you are a typical desktop users and expect more than just to see PDF documents mupdf might be little bit of shocker to you but if you are real Unix geek you will love it.

As of the plug in for the browser that is really silly question. Depends on the browser you have to chose default PDF viewer among options or sometime even to write your own script to lunch PDF viewer (XXXterm).


P.S. I just noticed that mupdf is apparently broken on FreeBSD. Sorry, I use OpenBSD so I made recommendation based on my experience.
 
We're far from the original question now, but fot completeness sake I'll provide this link to the pr that describes the breakage, which apparently is i386-specific.
 
OH said:
We're far from the original question now, but fot completeness sake I'll provide this link to the pr that describes the breakage, which apparently is i386-specific.

There's a patch for version 0.7 in there, too. But the 0.6 port works here, and I'm running i386...
 
mupdf is updated to v0.7, so I checked it.... well, there is no search... that's a HUGE minus; also xpdf search seems to only support ascii strings :(
 
Hi killasmurf86

You can actually search the document by pressing / followed by the search text! Please read the manual at http://mupdf.com/ for more features. It is by far the best PDF reader I have found for the XFCE desktop environment as it has no QT4/GNOME or other unnecessary dependencies.
 
This is pretty old thread, but anyway I wanted to share....

I've tried graphics/zathura and I quite like it....

I totally love it, when I'm working with TeXLive.
When I open pdf in zathura and then rebuild pdf, zathura will detect changes and update display :)
It's totally great :)
 
gnome has inbuilt tool called document viewer. It is slim and good tool. The only option I miss is a pdf editor as some stupid government website requires to send reports in PDF format. pdfedit just sucks x(
 
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