topic title: Alternatives to ePDF viewer?
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santotomas
Joined: 25 Aug 2014
#1
Recently I've been hunting for alternatives to ePDF viewer as it leaves much to be desired. I can hardly view the pages in a stable fashion. Nothing like I once had with Adobe Reader.
To make my own PDF's I normally just use OpenOffice aka as LibreOffice on my Linux machine. Then I just use the export to PDF option in my text document. It's been working out very well.
But, in order to view, edit or interact with any PDF file I get off the web, I find ePDF has many shortcomings.

Anyway, I read an article here:

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It reviews Evince and Okular, basically. Do you recommend either one of these as an alternative to ePDF?

I have ANTIX 13.2 and I do not use Gnome nor KDE as desktops; I steer clear of those.

Please advise and if you have any better alternatives that I can install, please also let me know.
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
qpdfview
mupdf
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#3
I personally like evince, and its generally the pdf reader I install. qpdfview is pretty good too.
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fatmac
Joined: 26 Jul 2012
#4
For viewing/reading .pdf, I tend to use xpdf, it lets me turn a page through 90 degrees, which I find useful, (for reading on a netbook).
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Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#5
dolphin_oracle wrote:I personally like evince, and its generally the pdf reader I install. qpdfview is pretty good too.

+1
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#6
As a self teaching exercise that does not require using a mouse and has plugins
and is lightweight.

Well, I played with
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Took me a little learning on how to operate it. Like I said. A self teaching install.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#7
santotomas wrote:But, in order to view, edit or interact with any PDF file I get off the web, I find ePDF has many shortcomings.
[...]
Please advise and if you have any better alternatives that I can install, please also let me know.
Read only
Try Foxit Reader for Linux
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Interact (manipulate, edit, etc)
Try Master PDF Editor for Linux
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santotomas
Joined: 25 Aug 2014
#8
Many thanks to all of you for your list of suggestions. I'm going to check every one out to see which ones suit my needs.
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Eperbab
Joined: 10 Dec 2012
#9
I mainly use okular besides xpdf, atril, qpdfview, evince, and master pdf editor.