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Do people still use Adobe reader nowadays? Last time that I tried it in my school's library it took half a minute to load and render my document, and after that
by AnaniasAnanas 8y ago
Do people still use Adobe reader nowadays? Last time that I tried it in my school's library it took half a minute to load and render my document, and after that the whole UI was unresponsive.
I had a much better experience with Sumatra on windows and Zathura on Linux where my documents open almost instantly.
- mistrial9 8y ago.. tried Zathura on LUbuntu just now for the first time ; appears to be a VIM for documents viewing or something.. no interest in Zathura here!
- AnaniasAnanas 8y agoWhat do you use? I also had good experiences with Okular in the past but I have not tried it in ages. Before moving to zathura I used xpdf and evince but I was not satisfied by them (not to mention that they do not support postscript and djvu). Zathura does have some vim keybinds but other than that I can't see any similarities.
- kvakil 8y agoand just like that, you've convinced me to install it. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. :)
- schoen 8y agoI was also convinced to install it, although after trying it, it looks more like less for PDFs than vim for PDFs (as many of the commands search or scroll in complex ways, but none of them modify the PDF). Still, it's interesting to have something like less for PDFs!
- jgtrosh 8y agoIMO mupdf is the real less for PDFs. It is so lightweight and straightforward it makes everything else seem terribly bloated.
- omaranto 8y agoZathura can use mupdf as its PDF renderer (it can also use poppler). I like using the mupdf library through Zathura rather than using the mupdf application, because Zathura has plugins for other file formats too, like PostScript and DJVU, and that way I learn a single set of keystrokes to view all sorts of documents.
- feanaro 8y agoYou almost make it sound like a bad thing.
- dbrgn 8y agoMaybe try mupdf instead?
- xvilka 8y agoLibpoppler has poor support for PDF Forms (especially Unicode[1][2]), embedded animation and 3D extensions. In my opinion these areas are very important in real world document exchange to be ignored (as it is a case for PDF FOSS tools). [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17913 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17913 [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/463 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/463
- AnaniasAnanas 8y agoI have never seen anyone use any of these features in the real world. I presume that embedded animation and 3D extensions are used in art-related fields? If so that would explain my ignorance.
- burfog 8y agoThe PDF used to apply for the BSA's Eagle Scout rank needs that stuff. I believe the reason is related to expandable text fields that might need to insert pages into the document. None of the non-Adobe viewers can handle it.
- xvilka 8y agoArt and engineering.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoI have to use Reader to fill out my state tax forms because they use some modern JavaScript driven system to auto fill that no other reader can handle.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoWe had the same situation in the UK until recently, thankfully the new API-based system has opened it up to other platforms (eg Xero) and works very well.
- kccqzy 8y ago
- madshiva 8y agoOur Security "leader" don't want service now because of brexit... we still use Adobe Reader, not updated. I want die.