What is the best pdf reader you are using?

[jskasia]

Hi there,

Do you know if there is any better PDF reader program than Evince, please share your favorite PDF reader or more.

[inportb]

Yep. Okular is just awesome.

offtopic: w00t 100 posts?

[jskasia]

BTW Okular is based on KDE i have to install 170 MB of some extras packages

[DoktorSeven]

I love xpdf. It's wondefully minimal (and might look ugly to some) but it works brilliantly for my purposes.

[Trail]

My favourite is kpdf...

[Steveway]

I use epdfview. It's as fast as xpdf but it has a nice looking interface.

[peterbrewer]

I'm voting for okular, while it may be qt rather that gtk (I use kubuntu so not a problem for me) it has some really nice features.

Really depends what you need it for.

[Wobedraggled]

Default viewer (Envice), just works. I've also used foxit.

[Canis familiaris]

I use mainly Evince.

[regomodo]

kpdf

[HermanAB]

PDF viewers were problematic many years ago, but at present, all seem to be pretty good. So I don't care anymore. I just go cliecketyclick and whatever happens to open the file is good enough.

[SuperSon!c]

foxit.

[afeasfaerw23231233]

i am using kpdf. evince is a big ram-eater. i opened three to four hundred-page pdf document and it occupied all my 768MB RAM. sometimes kpdf doesn't show chinese characters correctly and i have to use xpdf, though it is not user friendly.
see the thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=619422&highlight=pdf

[cnbiz850]

Maybe off topic, but I tried several pdf viewers and none seems able to reverse colors. When reading something, particularly a long document, I strongly prefer to have a dark background and a lighter foreground. Seems all pdf viewers use white background (which is to shiny for the eyes) and black foreground, and one can not change it. Am I missing something here?

[Dr Small]

epdfview on ArchLinux. I just installed it too; It is super fast :)

[angelsguitar]

I use Evince mainly; works most of the time for me. Also keep a copy of Adobe Reader for Linux (available from the medibuntu repository)to be able to handle pdf's with forms.

[scouser73]

Adobe PDF Reader works for me, I can't comment about the others that have been mentioned.

[Trail]

Maybe off topic, but I tried several pdf viewers and none seems able to reverse colors. When reading something, particularly a long document, I strongly prefer to have a dark background and a lighter foreground. Seems all pdf viewers use white background (which is to shiny for the eyes) and black foreground, and one can not change it. Am I missing something here?
compiz? :)

[SuperSon!c]

Adobe PDF Reader works for me, I can't comment about the others that have been mentioned.

that's the slowest one of the bunch. i would highly recommend trying another.

[funrider]

i mainly use kpdf for their "hand tool". however, when i need to rotate the document then i would use evince since kpdf just doenst have such function.

[inportb]

For KPDF fans -- Okular is just KPDF for KDE4, with more features. On KDE 3.5.x I use KPDF.

[cnbiz850]

compiz? :)

Are you saying that it might be compiz's problem? I doubt it because I run my desktop with no effects.

[Steveway]

Are you saying that it might be compiz's problem? I doubt it because I run my desktop with no effects.

No, he is referring to the negative-plugin wich lets you make windows or the whole screen negative.

[Incense]

Another vote for kpdf

[AndyCooll]

My pdf reader needs are basic, and Evince does the job for me, so I've never had any need to look elsewhere.

:cool:

[original_jamingrit]

I just use xpdf, but hearing about epdfview is making me curious...

[Foster Grant]

Switched back to Adobe Reader because Evince doesn't print (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=461144) properly (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=718101).

[cnbiz850]

No, he is referring to the negative-plugin wich lets you make windows or the whole screen negative.

What is it please? A Compiz plugin? I have no clue. How can I get it?

[Onyros]

Another vote for ePDFview. It's as simple as they come, but it's also as fast as they come.

[init1]

I don't use PDFs very often, but xpdf is fine for me.

[Steveway]

What is it please? A Compiz plugin? I have no clue. How can I get it?

Yup, it should be installed allready.
Install the advanced-configuration-manager and then you can enable it and bind it to a key-combo.

[logos34]

I just noticed something strange about a week ago: since upgrading to Hardy Evince is using a LOT more memory than Adobe reader/acroread! How can that be? I would swear that back in Gutsy it was the other way around, otherwise I would never have switced to evince. For instance, I just opened the very same pdf doc (a 2.6 MB file) in both apps, and gnome system monitor is showing that evince is using 31.1 MB while Adobe is pnly using 17.9!

Ideas anyone?

[cnbiz850]

Yup, it should be installed allready.
Install the advanced-configuration-manager and then you can enable it and bind it to a key-combo.

Hey! What are you guys talking about? I can't find "advanced-configuration-manager" or anything similar in the repository.

[urukrama]

Is there actually a pdf reader other than Acrobat that allows you to easily create bookmarks in pdf files? So far, I've only seen that option in Kpdf, but that only marked the thumnail of the current page with a paperclip, which isn't very handy. I'd like something more along the lines of Acrobat's bookmark system.

I use epdfview now, which is nice and fast, but a bit basic.

[Onyros]

We really need a PDF Reader / Simple editor, something which will let us bookmark, underline, quote PDF's easily.

I've used Foxit Reader, the WIndows version in WINE to comment a few PDF's which were sent my way, but I'd really like a native app.

On the N800 I use Xournal to do that, but I don't like its desktop version. Plus, all it does is put the PDF as a background and we draw on top, there's no text selection there.

[amyst]

Does okular or any reader you know of support good search functionality? When I am searching for a string of text, I want the reader to display ALL the matching strings in the document, so I can jump through the documents instead of having to go through the matching strings sequentially.

[maniacmusician]

Hey! What are you guys talking about? I can't find "advanced-configuration-manager" or anything similar in the repository.
The package is called compizconfig-settings-manager. I believe it would show up in your menu at System > Preferences > Advanced Desktop Effects Settings. That's how it is in Gutsy. I haven't installed Hardy yet, but I'd expect it to be the same.

[Pipps]

Epdf beats Evince by a mile.

Evince is slow and buggy, and has many keyboard shortcut problems.

Epdf just does the job without any fuss whatsoever. Something which Evince is not capable of achieving.

Go for Epdf!