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Some of the features: * You can middle click on a reference/figure to go to the reference/figure (even if the PDF doesn't have links) * You can middle click o

Some of the features: * You can middle click on a reference/figure to go to the reference/figure (even if the PDF doesn't have links) * You can middle click on a paper name in references to directly search it on google scholar * Searchable table of contents * You can mark locations by character symbols (vim style) Currently only the Windows build is available. Mac and Linux builds coming soon.

joiguru 5y ago
I am a researcher, and this seems incredibly useful for me. Will definitely give this a try when Linux builds are available. One feature request that I would suggest is synctex support. I can see this to be being useful when writing a paper using LaTeX as well.
- hexomancer 5y ago
  Thanks! I do use this for LaTeX myself and synctex support is on my to-do list.
sn41 5y ago
Thanks a lot for your effort. Especially the last feature. I had personally made some modifications to mupdf on my machine for doing this, and add annotations using shortcut keys. But MacOS Catalina somehow screwed up my GL, and it renders the page very oddly, so it no longer works. This reader seems great.
gluegadget 5y ago
Does the name mean 31?
- hexomancer 5y ago
  yes.
vzaliva 5y ago
Can't wait to try as soon as Lunux built is available.
jszymborski 5y ago
This was the sort of stuff that Readcube did that I was amazed by, but this being open and lighter makes it far cooler.
LeifCarrotson 5y ago
This is great! I love the keyboard-based navigation, and the portals are particularly wonderful, almost making me want to turn my documentation monitor back from vertical to horizontal aspect ratio. A few questions/feature requests/comments: Is there a way to link to a page/mark/bookmark/figure from outside the document? Can we export the marks/bookmarks/document state to a plaintext-compatible file? And please add a dark mode, full-screen white is just painful after a while. Also, I'm not sure I understand the distinction between marks and bookmarks; are marks single-character only? And can you not jump straight to a bookmark, only bringing up and searching the bookmarks context menu? I'm an electrical engineer, constantly referencing PDF-based datasheets, application notes, whitepapers, and reference manuals like [this one] or [this other one]. They're similar to the more academic papers that this seems to be targeted towards, and suffer from many of the same problems. The current practice in the industry to make effective use of these PDFs is approximately summed up as "just be really smart and keep track of it all in your head." If you're unusually kind to your coworkers, your co-contributors, and (especially) your future self who haven't recently spent the same hours exhaustively reading these documents you'll mention in a comment in your SPI initialization code to "Set bit 13, CRCEN, before turning on bit 6, SPE, see ref manual page 808" or in your schematic that your PCB needs to "Route for additional 4.7 uF point of load capacitance within 25mm/nH/mOhm, see datasheet page 69". I see that it can be run from the command line with the file name as an argument, but it doesn't respond to anything beyond argv[1], and the whole point is to be to deep-link inside the file. Ideally, I'd love to see a protocol handler like mailto: or winmerge: so that one could embed links inside PDFs. With that, a user looking at a readme document or code comment could jump to "sioyek://../docs/rm0377*.pdf?808gg" or ".pdf?gb=SPI_CR1". I also see that it seems to store marks and other persistent data in the "test.db" SQLite file, I'd much rather see this as a JSON/XML/plaintext file (or at least exportable as such) so that I can add it to a project version control repository, allowing me to share my state with others and get it back later. Regarding dark mode, I understand that some figures, background images, watermarks etc. will make this more difficult. But the most common case of black text on a white background is solved for me in the Firefox PDF viewer with a bookmarklet containing `javascript:(function(){viewer.style = 'filter: grayscale(1) invert(1) sepia(1) contrast(75%)';})()`. Foxit likewise has a night mode. [this one]: https://www.st.com/resource/en/reference_manual/rm0377-ultralowpower-stm32l0x1-advanced-armbased-32bit-mcus-stmicroelectronics.pdf https://www.st.com/resource/en/reference_manual/rm0377-ultra... [this other one]: https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX77650-MAX77651.pdf https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX77650-MAX776...
soferio 5y ago
Liquidtext is a commercial multiplatform app with some similar and interesting functionality.
gota 5y ago
The "portal" feature is so much exactly what I've been ranting IRL about wanting in a pdf reader that I'm worried you've been stalking me Seriously, though - thanks and congrats
barlog 5y ago
Awesome product!! // There is a typo on index.html line 177. https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek-website/blob/3d1b6323a687b8098291ac5aed0c8f5b692dc245/index.html#L177 https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek-website/blob/3d1b6323a687b809...
- hexomancer 5y ago
  Fixed. Thanks.

joiguru 5y ago

I am a researcher, and this seems incredibly useful for me. Will definitely give this a try when Linux builds are available. One feature request that I would suggest is synctex support. I can see this to be being useful when writing a paper using LaTeX as well.

hexomancer 5y ago
Thanks! I do use this for LaTeX myself and synctex support is on my to-do list.

sn41 5y ago

Thanks a lot for your effort. Especially the last feature. I had personally made some modifications to mupdf on my machine for doing this, and add annotations using shortcut keys. But MacOS Catalina somehow screwed up my GL, and it renders the page very oddly, so it no longer works. This reader seems great.

gluegadget 5y ago

Does the name mean 31?

hexomancer 5y ago
yes.

vzaliva 5y ago

Can't wait to try as soon as Lunux built is available.

jszymborski 5y ago

This was the sort of stuff that Readcube did that I was amazed by, but this being open and lighter makes it far cooler.

LeifCarrotson 5y ago

This is great! I love the keyboard-based navigation, and the portals are particularly wonderful, almost making me want to turn my documentation monitor back from vertical to horizontal aspect ratio. A few questions/feature requests/comments: Is there a way to link to a page/mark/bookmark/figure from outside the document? Can we export the marks/bookmarks/document state to a plaintext-compatible file? And please add a dark mode, full-screen white is just painful after a while. Also, I'm not sure I understand the distinction between marks and bookmarks; are marks single-character only? And can you not jump straight to a bookmark, only bringing up and searching the bookmarks context menu? I'm an electrical engineer, constantly referencing PDF-based datasheets, application notes, whitepapers, and reference manuals like [this one] or [this other one]. They're similar to the more academic papers that this seems to be targeted towards, and suffer from many of the same problems. The current practice in the industry to make effective use of these PDFs is approximately summed up as "just be really smart and keep track of it all in your head." If you're unusually kind to your coworkers, your co-contributors, and (especially) your future self who haven't recently spent the same hours exhaustively reading these documents you'll mention in a comment in your SPI initialization code to "Set bit 13, CRCEN, before turning on bit 6, SPE, see ref manual page 808" or in your schematic that your PCB needs to "Route for additional 4.7 uF point of load capacitance within 25mm/nH/mOhm, see datasheet page 69". I see that it can be run from the command line with the file name as an argument, but it doesn't respond to anything beyond argv[1], and the whole point is to be to deep-link inside the file. Ideally, I'd love to see a protocol handler like mailto: or winmerge: so that one could embed links inside PDFs. With that, a user looking at a readme document or code comment could jump to "sioyek://../docs/rm0377*.pdf?808gg" or ".pdf?gb=SPI_CR1". I also see that it seems to store marks and other persistent data in the "test.db" SQLite file, I'd much rather see this as a JSON/XML/plaintext file (or at least exportable as such) so that I can add it to a project version control repository, allowing me to share my state with others and get it back later. Regarding dark mode, I understand that some figures, background images, watermarks etc. will make this more difficult. But the most common case of black text on a white background is solved for me in the Firefox PDF viewer with a bookmarklet containing `javascript:(function(){viewer.style = 'filter: grayscale(1) invert(1) sepia(1) contrast(75%)';})()`. Foxit likewise has a night mode. [this one]: https://www.st.com/resource/en/reference_manual/rm0377-ultralowpower-stm32l0x1-advanced-armbased-32bit-mcus-stmicroelectronics.pdf https://www.st.com/resource/en/reference_manual/rm0377-ultra... [this other one]: https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX77650-MAX77651.pdf https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX77650-MAX776...

soferio 5y ago

Liquidtext is a commercial multiplatform app with some similar and interesting functionality.

gota 5y ago

The "portal" feature is so much exactly what I've been ranting IRL about wanting in a pdf reader that I'm worried you've been stalking me Seriously, though - thanks and congrats

barlog 5y ago

Awesome product!! // There is a typo on index.html line 177. https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek-website/blob/3d1b6323a687b8098291ac5aed0c8f5b692dc245/index.html#L177 https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek-website/blob/3d1b6323a687b809...

hexomancer 5y ago
Fixed. Thanks.