[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 02/24/2010 06:01 PM, daid kahl wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Simple question: Can you please explain your pdf viewer of choice (and
> any configs or 'hacks' I should do)?  I can't find anything I like.
>
> I've tried xpdf, epdfview, evince, kpdf, and acroread.  As I am trying
> to remove kdelibs from my system to reduce overhead, I'm reluctant to go
> for okular, and although I had some brief experience with it, I forget
> my results (still trying to replace kaffeine..that's another post maybe
> for later once I'm done testing).  I had gs programs of sorts for
> awhile, and I forget the results, other than to say the pdf parts aren't
> on my machine anymore for better or worse.

There's also Foxit Reader.  You can find it in the "rion" overlay.

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[Jacob Todd]

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There's app-text/gv, which is very small. There's also page from plan9port.
If you want to try out page, don't install plan9port from portage, it's
horribly out of date. You should download a recent tarball from
http://swtch.com/plan9port.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

[Zeerak Mustafa Waseem]

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:06:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/24/2010 06:01 PM, daid kahl wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Simple question: Can you please explain your pdf viewer of choice (and
> > any configs or 'hacks' I should do)?  I can't find anything I like.
> >
> > I've tried xpdf, epdfview, evince, kpdf, and acroread.  As I am trying
> > to remove kdelibs from my system to reduce overhead, I'm reluctant to go
> > for okular, and although I had some brief experience with it, I forget
> > my results (still trying to replace kaffeine..that's another post maybe
> > for later once I'm done testing).  I had gs programs of sorts for
> > awhile, and I forget the results, other than to say the pdf parts aren't
> > on my machine anymore for better or worse.
> 
> There's also Foxit Reader.  You can find it in the "rion" overlay.
> 
> 

Does Foxit Reader support editing pdf files (By editing I mean making notes in them etc.), I've been having some trouble finding a pdf-reader that allowed that.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what pdf readers (other than okular) do it, I'd be very grateful :-)

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Zeerak Waseem

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

[Willie Wong]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:19:52PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> Does Foxit Reader support editing pdf files (By editing I mean making notes in them etc.), I've been having some trouble finding a pdf-reader that allowed that.
> If anyone has any suggestions as to what pdf readers (other than okular) do it, I'd be very grateful :-)
> 
I don't use a PDF reader for that :)

I manage my PDF documents with Jabref, and I add a comment field to
store general comments about the PDF. For margin-notes I use the
PDF-annotation feature of xournal. 

W

-- 
Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[Willie Wong]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:01:37AM +0900, daid kahl wrote:
> I've tried xpdf, epdfview, evince, kpdf, and acroread. 

> I want something fast for big files, prints well, and has an interface that
> doesn't remind me of pure and natural X.  I don't mind the little page
> overview as a side-tool, but I don't strictly require it.

Speedwise I don't think epdfview/evince/kpdf will be all that much
different. They are all based on the poppler framework just with
different frontends. Poppler is, in turn, based on the xpdf rendering
parts. 

Acroread is, well acroread, and I try to avoid it whenever I can. 

> evince will take an arbitrarily long time to print documents that are long
> or have big figures.

That's odd. I use evince at work (though not on gentoo; work computer
is a heavily customized version of scientific linux) and I don't have
the printing problem. If it weren't for the Gnome dependencies that I
don't want on my laptop, I'd also use evince at home. (Hum, just
checked it out again now, and it looks like the dependency list is
shorter than I remembered it being?)

> The interface for xpdf is pretty lame (especially default printing), but
> it's quick as demons chasing bats out of hell.

But it works. It is my pdf viewer of choice at home. 

One thing I am waiting to see is epdf from the enlightenment
libraries. It is still masked, and is in the enlightenment overlay.
In the sunrise overlay there is a program called apvlv. I have never
tried it myself, but the codebase is small and it has a UI based on
the VIM UI (for better or for worse).

You probably know this already, but gv doesn't work too well a lot of
times.

Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from.

Cheers, 

W 

-- 
Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

[daid kahl]

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On 25 February 2010 02:46, Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:19:52PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> > Does Foxit Reader support editing pdf files (By editing I mean making
> notes in them etc.), I've been having some trouble finding a pdf-reader that
> allowed that.
> > If anyone has any suggestions as to what pdf readers (other than okular)
> do it, I'd be very grateful :-)
> >
> I don't use a PDF reader for that :)
>
> I manage my PDF documents with Jabref, and I add a comment field to
> store general comments about the PDF. For margin-notes I use the
> PDF-annotation feature of xournal.
>
> W
>
> --
> Willie W. Wong
> wwong@math.princeton.edu


jabref is totally amazing, and I also use that.  I can fully endorse it to
anyone using bibtex sorts of things.

~daid

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Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[daid kahl]

[snips from daid / Willie Wong]
> > evince will take an arbitrarily long time to print documents that are long
> > or have big figures.
>
> That's odd. I use evince at work (though not on gentoo; work computer
> is a heavily customized version of scientific linux) and I don't have
> the printing problem.
[snip]

[also sorry if I used HTML formatting earlier, sometimes it is turned
on for me and I forget]

It could have been this crazy pdf I was printing, which was one of the
first times I was really using evince a lot since other things were
also complaining.  I had pdftk'ed different files, and I think some of
them were like US Letter and others were A4 and others weren't
specified.  Well, I kind of erased that experience from my memory, but
I know almost everything on different OSes didn't like what I'd done,
whatever it was.  So this could be a very bad test case.  There was
something else in my mind from testing it that made me kind of shiver
in a bad way, but I forget.  It should be a good program from what I
know, however.

> > The interface for xpdf is pretty lame (especially default printing), but
> > it's quick as demons chasing bats out of hell.
>
> But it works. It is my pdf viewer of choice at home.
[snip]

I'll check out what I can do for printing from it and maybe making it prettier.

> You probably know this already, but gv doesn't work too well a lot of
> times.

Yeah, I kinda forget, but I assume it wasn't removed from my world for
no reason at all.

> Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from.

We seem to be doing well so far!

~daid

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[Neal Hogan]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:19 PM, daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com> wrote:
> [snips from daid / Willie Wong]

>
>> Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from.
>
> We seem to be doing well so far!

I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too
sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick "gentoo mupdf" google had
a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what
they were talking about.

-Neal

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[Sebastian Beßler]

Am 24.02.2010 21:21, schrieb Neal Hogan:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:19 PM, daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com> wrote:
>> [snips from daid / Willie Wong]
> 
>>
>>> Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from.
>>
>> We seem to be doing well so far!
> 
> I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too
> sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick "gentoo mupdf" google had
> a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what
> they were talking about.
> 
> -Neal
> 

Shao ~ # eix mupdf
* app-text/mupdf
     Available versions:  (~)0.5[1] (~)20090703[2] {+cjk debug jbig jpeg2k}
     Homepage:            http://ccxvii.net/mupdf
     Description:         Lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in
portable C.

[1] "gentoo-china" layman/gentoo-china
[2] "rion" layman/rion

It is not in portage tree but in those two overlays.

Greetings

Sebastian

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-02-24, Sebastian Be?ler <sebastian@darkmetatron.de> wrote:
> Am 24.02.2010 21:21, schrieb Neal Hogan:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:19 PM, daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [snips from daid / Willie Wong]
>> 
>>>
>>>> Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from.
>>>
>>> We seem to be doing well so far!
>> 
>> I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too
>> sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick "gentoo mupdf" google had
>> a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what
>> they were talking about.
>
> Shao ~ # eix mupdf
> * app-text/mupdf
>      Available versions:  (~)0.5[1] (~)20090703[2] {+cjk debug jbig jpeg2k}
>      Homepage:            http://ccxvii.net/mupdf
>      Description:         Lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in
> portable C.
>
> [1] "gentoo-china" layman/gentoo-china
> [2] "rion" layman/rion
>
> It is not in portage tree but in those two overlays.

I just built mupdf 0.5 from sources (after emerging ftjam), and
mupdf segfaulted a few pages into the first document I opened.
That and the inability to search are going to make it a
non-starter for me.

It is small and fast, though.

-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! It's some people
                                  at               inside the wall!  This is
                               visi.com            better than mopping!

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[Willie Wong]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote:
> I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too
> sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick "gentoo mupdf" google had
> a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what
> they were talking about.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/280469

I hope it at least makes into sunrise. There is a version or two in
the gentoo-china overlay, but they are old and have security
vulnerabilities. 

W
-- 
Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

I cannot use mupdf at all.
I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay.

But, when it comes up it displays the first page but I cannot
do anything else.
There is no menu, it doesn't respond to the mouse or the PgUp/PgDn
keys. So I can only view the very first page or exit.
No search, no printing ...

What am I missing?
Helmut.


On 24 Feb, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote:
>> I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too
>> sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick "gentoo mupdf" google had
>> a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what
>> they were talking about.
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/280469
> 
> I hope it at least makes into sunrise. There is a version or two in
> the gentoo-china overlay, but they are old and have security
> vulnerabilities. 
> 
> W

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[Stroller]

The quoted stated "vi-like bindings", so I would advise you to state  
that you've tried the j & k keys for up & down.

If the previous poster has bottom-posted, your top-posting makes the  
quuoted *particularly* difficult to read. I hope you will follow the  
conventions of the previous poster in the future.

Stroller.



On 25 Feb 2010, at 08:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> ...
> I cannot use mupdf at all.
> I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay.
>
> But, when it comes up it displays the first page but I cannot
> do anything else.
> There is no menu, it doesn't respond to the mouse or the PgUp/PgDn
> keys. So I can only view the very first page or exit.
> No search, no printing ...
>
>>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote:
>

>> I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too
>> sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick "gentoo mupdf" google  
>> had
>> a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what
>> they were talking about.

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[Neal Hogan]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I cannot use mupdf at all.
> I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay.
>
> But, when it comes up it displays the first page but I cannot
> do anything else.
> There is no menu, it doesn't respond to the mouse or the PgUp/PgDn
> keys. So I can only view the very first page or exit.
> No search, no printing ...
>
> What am I missing?

The documentation?

> Helmut.
>
>
> On 24 Feb, Willie Wong wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote:
>>> I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too
>>> sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick "gentoo mupdf" google had
>>> a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what
>>> they were talking about.
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/280469
>>
>> I hope it at least makes into sunrise. There is a version or two in
>> the gentoo-china overlay, but they are old and have security
>> vulnerabilities.
>>
>> W
>
> --
> Helmut Jarausch
>
> Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> RWTH - Aachen University
> D 52056 Aachen, Germany
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[Helmut Jarausch]

Thanks to 'Stroller' and Willie
I couldn't just believe in such an archaic user interface.
Helmut.

On 25 Feb, Stroller wrote:
> The quoted stated "vi-like bindings", so I would advise you to state  
> that you've tried the j & k keys for up & down.
> 
 

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

[Mick]

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On Thursday 25 February 2010 12:45:34 Neal Hogan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Helmut Jarausch
> 
> <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I cannot use mupdf at all.
> > I've emerged mupdf-938 after adding it to my local overlay.
> >
> > But, when it comes up it displays the first page but I cannot
> > do anything else.
> > There is no menu, it doesn't respond to the mouse or the PgUp/PgDn
> > keys. So I can only view the very first page or exit.
> > No search, no printing ...
> >
> > What am I missing?
> 
> The documentation?

http://ccxvii.net/mupdf/

Look at the bottom of the page under "Manual".
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-02-25, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> What am I missing?
>> 
>> The documentation?
>
> http://ccxvii.net/mupdf/
>
> Look at the bottom of the page under "Manual".

I had the same problem: I expected there to be some usage
documentation in the source tarball.  There isn't (at least any
that I could find).  Eventually I went back to the web site...

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                                  at               ITEM instead?
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