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Surprised not to see Xpdf on this list. I actually used it until fairly recently as I just wanted a simple, no-frills PDF viewer (I now use Zathura instead).
by NoboruWataya 3y ago
Surprised not to see Xpdf on this list. I actually used it until fairly recently as I just wanted a simple, no-frills PDF viewer (I now use Zathura instead).
- philsnow 3y agoI loved Xpdf, it was part of my weird "tex->pdf REPL", which was just % xpdf -remote work output.pdf & [1] % inotifywait --monitor ... | \ while read; do \ make && xpdf -remote work -reload done At the time, xpdf was the only PDF reader that wouldn't eagerly try to re-read the PDF file the instant it noticed a change. ps2pdf / latexpdf etc don't write the file atomically, so other PDF readers would display garbage (and then not re-display after latexpdf was finished) and usually lose the page that I was looking at. With xpdf I could do xpdf -reload after my build finished, and it would retain my place (as long as I hadn't `\if 0`ed the place I was looking at out of existence).
- hulitu 3y agoxpdf was updated. It is terrible now.