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Personally I prefer the minimalist UI of Evince. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince

hedora 4y ago
Same here, but I find that Gnome is a tire fire of usability (post gnome 2) and technical (e.g., fractional scaling) mistakes. For whatever reason, Evince didn't work right for me on the first try under KDE, so I switched to okular, and never looked back. KDE was preloaded on my laptop, and it's tolerable. I used to use gnome stuff under minimalist window managers, but that's getting harder and harder on laptops, due to strange hardware integrations with desktop environments. Sometimes I think the year of the linux desktop was 2003. High dpi displays just worked. So did networking stuff and suspend resume. Anyway, I'll end my rant by pouring one out (each) for xpdf and evince.
limoce 4y ago
I'm using Okular and I just configured Okular to hide most panels and only leave the scroll bar on the window so I think it's minimalist as well. I will use Ctrl+M to toggle the menu bar when I need other functionalities.
tasuki 4y ago
As a Gnome user, I've been using Evince for a long time. Yesterday, tried to open a 30mb 20-page file, and it crawled. The pages would get rendered very slow and rerender on scroll. I typed "fast linux pdf viewer" into a search engine and quickly landed at Okular, which has a setting to prerender everything and keep it in memory. It flies!
- adrian_b 4y ago
  I have tried most PDF viewers available on Linux. MuPDF is by far the fastest, much faster than Okular or Evince, both at rendering pages and at navigation through the document (also the keyboard-shortcut-based user interface of MuPDF is much faster than the more typical GUI of the other PDF readers). MuPDF has various limitations and sometimes I find certain PDF files that it cannot render, so it cannot be used as the only PDF viewer. Nevertheless, using MuPDF to handle the common cases of quickly opening, searching and reading PDF files, together with a fall-back more complete PDF reader, e.g. Okular, seems the best option on Linux.
  - tasuki 4y ago
    Wow. It was in my repositories, has no silly interface buttons, and has a very short and useful man page. And indeed it's fast. I'm sold! Now, I'd like to see double (facing) pages. And it seems MuPDF can't do that. So I'm stuck with Okular, which is sad, as it's the only reason for me to have QT installed...

Same here, but I find that Gnome is a tire fire of usability (post gnome 2) and technical (e.g., fractional scaling) mistakes. For whatever reason, Evince didn't work right for me on the first try under KDE, so I switched to okular, and never looked back. KDE was preloaded on my laptop, and it's tolerable. I used to use gnome stuff under minimalist window managers, but that's getting harder and harder on laptops, due to strange hardware integrations with desktop environments. Sometimes I think the year of the linux desktop was 2003. High dpi displays just worked. So did networking stuff and suspend resume. Anyway, I'll end my rant by pouring one out (each) for xpdf and evince.

limoce 4y ago

I'm using Okular and I just configured Okular to hide most panels and only leave the scroll bar on the window so I think it's minimalist as well. I will use Ctrl+M to toggle the menu bar when I need other functionalities.

tasuki 4y ago

As a Gnome user, I've been using Evince for a long time. Yesterday, tried to open a 30mb 20-page file, and it crawled. The pages would get rendered very slow and rerender on scroll. I typed "fast linux pdf viewer" into a search engine and quickly landed at Okular, which has a setting to prerender everything and keep it in memory. It flies!

adrian_b 4y ago
I have tried most PDF viewers available on Linux. MuPDF is by far the fastest, much faster than Okular or Evince, both at rendering pages and at navigation through the document (also the keyboard-shortcut-based user interface of MuPDF is much faster than the more typical GUI of the other PDF readers). MuPDF has various limitations and sometimes I find certain PDF files that it cannot render, so it cannot be used as the only PDF viewer. Nevertheless, using MuPDF to handle the common cases of quickly opening, searching and reading PDF files, together with a fall-back more complete PDF reader, e.g. Okular, seems the best option on Linux.
- tasuki 4y ago
  Wow. It was in my repositories, has no silly interface buttons, and has a very short and useful man page. And indeed it's fast. I'm sold! Now, I'd like to see double (facing) pages. And it seems MuPDF can't do that. So I'm stuck with Okular, which is sad, as it's the only reason for me to have QT installed...