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I think this project deserves a lot more attention. There aren't decent PDF tools for Linux and this is also based on web standards which is awesome. The comb
by burtonator 9y ago
I think this project deserves a lot more attention.
There aren't decent PDF tools for Linux and this is also based on web standards which is awesome.
The combination of older/robust technology like PDF but with modern web standards is really compelling.
- krastanov 9y agoIn my experience Evince (the PDF reader in Gnome) works much better than PDF.js (and is faster, has smaller footprint, supports more advanced PDF feature, etc).
- fithisux 9y agoI totally agree.
- kencausey 9y agoI personally quite like MuPDF for its simplicity but mostly I'm simply viewing a document, it doesn't support forms or probably a number of other PDF features.
- seba_dos1 9y agoWhat's wrong with Okular? I like having PDF.js in my browser for quick previews and I find it way more preferable than what Chrome does with its plugin, but on the desktop I wouldn't really choose PDF.js over Okular.
- megous 9y agoThere are decent tools for PDF. (La)TeX being one, poppler being another, qpdf being yet another that I used and found very useful for manipulating PDFs, like removal of useless watermarks. There are plenty of other tools that can work with PDFs, like inkscape, libreoffice, ImageMagick,...
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- tathougies 9y agoThere aren't decent PDF tools for linux? I've always found the opposite.