pdf reader: which one?

[Rava]

I recall Foxit. And I also liked it a lot.

Alas, the linux version is no longer maintained.

I wondered why Foxit was dropped, so that was the reason.

[francois]

They just decided that they prefer dealing with the majority of users: windows and apple.

[Rava]

Yeah, that sucks.
Have this sad image of nosedripping David Tennant in the pouring rain.
It sums up my feelings when it comes to the disparity between support for free and open OS like Linux and for the SuckOS like Windoze and not-that-sucky-but-too-expansive Apple.

[Ed_P]

Have this sad image of nosedripping David Tennant in the pouring rain.

I loved him as Dr. Who.

[francois]

Funny, I just realised that Foxitreader app is available for android phones. Android is linux, isn't it?

There is a way: anbox:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-ru ... -on-linux/

[Rava]

^
Yes it is, but I heard it should be a kind of a hard road to go to get an android software running on a regular Linux, but i presume it depends on what programming language was used and what coding style the developers had.
Anyway, one can still use outdated software when it fits your need.

Like I using a very outdated epub reader because it is the one with the slimmest of dependencies that I know of, and I do not need anything more fancy, what fbreader-0.12.10-x86_64-2ponce.xzm (1.79 MB - 2015-02-27) and its self-stripped-down dependency fbreader-0.99.2_deps_qt-4.8.4STRIPPED+liblinebreak-2.1--x86_64.rava.xzm (4.13 MB - 2013-09-12) does is all I need from an epub reader.
And bythe dates of these files you see how outdated they are.
Reminds me, I never tested if it works on 5.0.1 XFCE, only used it in 5.0 as the then newest Porteus. I test it right now.

Added in 6 minutes 19 seconds:
Thanks to my activate-* scripts activating rarely used modules is a thing of seconds:

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root@rava:/Lsfind# activate-fbreader-0.12 
activate-fbreader-0.12 V0.4
activate /mnt/sda5/Porteus_modules/5.0/fbreader-0.99.2_deps_qt-4.8.4STRIPPED+liblinebreak-2.1--x86_64.rava.xzm
Updating shared library links:  /sbin/ldconfig
activate /mnt/sda5/Porteus_modules/5.0/fbreader-0.12.10-x86_64-2ponce.xzm
Updating shared library links:  /sbin/ldconfig
root@rava:/Lsfind# 

and it runs as flawlessly as it did back in 2015.

[rych]

The best pdf viewer for me is qpdfview.
The current version 0.5.0

I agree with that. By the way, could you please share your qpdfview 0.5.0 module or tell where/how to best get it? Thanks

[Rava]

he best pdf viewer for me is qpdfview.
The current version 0.5.0

Does the q in qpdfview stand for QT ? Because when using XFCE that is usually connected with a huge need of dependencies.

My guess was correct, sadly:
https://github.com/bendikro/qpdfview

It depends on libQtCore, libQtGui. It also depends on libQtSvg, libQtSql, libQtDBus, libcups, resp. libz if SVG, SQL, D-Bus, CUPS, resp. SyncTeX support is enabled. It also depends on libmagic if Qt version 4 is used and libmagic support is enabled. The PDF plug-in depends on libQtCore, libQtXml, libQtGui and libpoppler-qt4 or libpoppler-qt5. The PS plug-in depends on libQtCore, libQtGui and libspectre. The DjVu plug-in depends on libQtCore, libQtGui and libdjvulibre. The Fitz plug-in depends on libQtCore, libQtGui and libmupdf.

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I am quite sure a dependency module for XFCE for the qpdfview version 0.5.0 would be much larger than qpdfview itself.

[itrukrakso]

Hi,

By the way, could you please share your qpdfview 0.5.0 module or tell where/how to best get it? Thanks

Thanks for asking, but unfortunately I can't do that for you help.
Based on experience, I think Porteus 3.2 or earlier,
when I searched for 2 hours, some modules were not loaded.
Because the loop devices were limited to 25 (or so), I only build larger modules with programs based on topics.
My modules are around 150-200 MB in size.
This is clearer for me and makes it easier to add new programs based on existing dependencies.
Even if I had a module from qpdfiew, it probably wouldn't work properly in your system because it was included in a snapshot of my OS.
Again to your question:
current version is 0.5.0, I still use 0.4.18 from "sbo"
from Salix there is
https://slackware.nl/slakfinder/index.p ... e=#results
the dependencies on it
https://slackware.nl/slakfinder/show.php?pkg=1406885
That looks very huge, but if you have a larger system, the dependencies will probably be smaller because a lot is already there.

Does the q in qpdfview stand for QT ? Because when using XFCE that is usually connected with a huge need of dependencies.

I am quite sure a dependency module for XFCE for the qpdfview version 0.5.0 would be much larger than qpdfview itself.

Yes, it requires qt and is of course larger due to its dependencies as itself, like many other programs.
The size of the module is relative, depending on what is already installed in the OS.
In addition, different compilations also have different ones dependencies.
Ultimately the size of a module is not important to me, but whether it offers the functions that I need.

[francois]

@rych:

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oot@porteus:/home/guest# getmod -m qpdfview
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  texlive qpdfview 
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 65.7MB of archives.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] 

[rych]

current version is 0.5.0

the official module is supplied in qpdfview (Post by ncmprhnsbl #96288)

[rych]

I have installed and tried many to see which renders the text best. My rating so far is this:
1. PDF-XChange (via Wine) (default for reading)
2. master-pdf-editor-5
3. SumatraPDF (wine)
4. qpdfview (I use this for Latex work, surprisingly pleasant rendition and overall features)
5. ePDFviewer, evince ("Document Viewer") (not smooth enough text rendering)

?) I would like to test PDF4QT and maybe Atril (a fork of evince). Could someone share their modules please? PDF4QT can hopefully be built against Qt5 and not Qt6 -- we haven't made a move to Qt6 yet apparently.

[Rava]

I use this for Latex work

What LaTex setup do you use?

[rych]

What LaTex setup do you use?

We discussed this a while ago in texstudio (Post by rych #87143) and why modules (Post by rych #91761). With regards to pdf viewers, I use qpdfview also because both forward and reverse search are easy and convenient from/to the source in LyX.

[francois]

Follow-up:

1) pdfstudio
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/

I use that pdf software for now. It does a good job.

2) okular
I use it to annotate pdf text files.

3) PDF4QT
I have tried to build it from source, there was some error codes that I did not solved yet.
git building of PDF4QT;QT6 missing.

4) foxitreader
This one is dead for me, it bugs too much.