pdf reader: which one?

[Rava]

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.

Do you have modules for both?

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bundles

doesn't list any.

[francois]

okular:
getmod -m okular-21.12.1-x86_64-1

pdfstudio:
Download:
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/download/
which will provide the following file
/home/guest/Downloads/PDFStudio_linux64.sh
Change permission to executable file
cd /home/guest/Downloads/PDFStudio_linux64.sh
. /home/guest/Downloads/PDFStudio_linux64.sh
Follow the instructions this will install pdf. It will install a link to the desktop if you want.

If not the software is in /opt. There is a pdfstudio.desktop file. Maybe you can make a module from /opt/pdfstudio2023/

[Rava]

okular:
getmod -m okular-21.12.1-x86_64-1

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root@rava:/2/tmp/TEMP4xzm# TMP=/2/tmp/TEMP4xzm slapt-mod -m okular-21.12.1-x86_64-1
Reading Package Lists...Done
Suggested packages:
  alsa-lib bzip2 elfutils eudev expat gcc libffi libjpeg-turbo libpng pcre xz 
  zlib brotli cairo cdparanoia elfutils fontconfig freetype fribidi graphite2 
  harfbuzz libX11 libXau libXdmcp libXext libXrender libXv libdrm libglvnd 
  libgudev libogg libtheora libunwind libvisual libvorbis libxcb libxml2 mesa 
  opus orc pango pixman wayland 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  chmlib ebook-tools ghostscript python2 graphene gstreamer gst-plugins-base 
  hunspell jasper judy mariadb openal-soft speech-dispatcher qt5 kconfig 
  kcoreaddons kactivities karchive polkit-qt-1 kauth kcodecs kguiaddons ki18n 
  kwidgetsaddons kconfigwidgets kwindowsystem kcrash kdbusaddons kglobalaccel 
  kitemviews kiconthemes kxmlgui kbookmarks kcompletion kdoctools kjobwidgets 
  libdbusmenu-qt knotifications kservice aspell sonnet ktextwidgets kwallet 
  solid kio kdegraphics-mobipocket kjs kparts phonon khtml kpty libkexiv2 
  libspectre purpose threadweaver okular 
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 56 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 181.5MB of archives.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] 

181.5MB just for okular-21.12.1-x86_64-1. That's a bit too much.

I try pdfstudio.

[francois]

okular works with kde usually. As I am on hdd. I do not mind so much. It could be left in the optional folder.

[Rava]

okular works with kde usually.

Is there a program that comes next to what okular does when thinking of XFCE as DE?

Or maybe even more explicit asked:
What would you go for with a more restricted system (concerning RAM and storage space) when XFCE would be your DE?

[francois]

master-PDF editor 5 module offered by gomway
New Working Modules and Custom Porteus ISOs

[francois]

@gomway:
Thanks for these numerous modules. This is a great contribution for the porteus lovers.

[francois]

Follow-up:
pdfstudio is very satisfying. I recommend it.

[Rava]

pdfstudio is very satisfying. I recommend it.

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root@rava:/8/tmp# TMP=//8/tmp slapt-mod  -M pdfstudio
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  zulu-openjdk8 pdfstudio 
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 212.1MB of archives.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] 

But 212 MB is quite large.
and would these 2 packages are all that is needed to get it running in XFCE?

and which pdfstudio would that above command install?

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root@rava:/8/tmp# slapt-mod -s pdfstudio
pdfstudio-2020.4.0-x86_64-1salix15.0  (PDF editor)
pdfstudioviewer-2020.4.0-x86_64-1salix15.0  (PDF reader)

pdfstudio (most likely) or pdfstudioviewer (less likely so)

[rych]

pdfstudio is very satisfying

Did you happen to build a module out of it? I hesitate to run PDFStudio_linux64.sh: does it have an option of installing into a separate folder without polluting too much the system folders and therefore my /changes?

212 MB is quite large

Well, that's Java. Java UI is also going to be somewhat unusual

[M. Eerie]

Did you know that Firefox can be used as a standalone PDF reader/editor

I've tested and it works great. It's almost perfect, I would say


Do note that the latest version of the pdf.js module in Firefox allows adding objects to PDF documents.

[Rava]

Did you know that Firefox can be used as a standalone PDF reader/editor

I've tested and it works great. It's almost perfect, I would say


Do note that the latest version of the pdf.js module in Firefox allows adding objects to PDF documents.

Can the same be said with Palemoon?

[M. Eerie]

I don't know...

Taking a look at the script, the author generates a new profile in which includes 2 files:
* path/to/profile/chrome/userChrome.css to hide the menus and most of the user interface, and
* path/to/profile/user.js to force the homepage to be $HOME/.config/ff-pdf/startpage.html

Other than that, all it does is create a script that launches a Firefox instance with that profile and a companion ".desktop" launcher.

All of the above is easily reproducible, but if you want to know, you will have to test on your own if the pdf.js module included in Palemoon (if it exists) is the same they use in Firefox.

[Rava]

This does exist:
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/pdf-js-for-seamonkey/
Does the screenshot from the above URL look like how it looks like in FireFox?

[francois]

Personaly, I went with PDFStudio_linux64.sh

It works well.

I will try to install the pdfstudio editor as mentioned by rava.