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Ask HN: Which PDF reader do you use on Linux?

3 pointsby alderzover 4 years ago
I read a lot of PDFs, and I cannot find a good reader on Linux. Evince does not support tabs and has no history navigation (back&#x2F;forward). Qpdfviewer does have those features, but lacks proper text selection. Okular requires a big installation and KDE libraries, which are fine if you use KDE, but I don&#x27;t. There are many other minimal readers, but they are too basic for my needs. Session persistence in a PDF reader would be nice too.<p>Which one do you use? How do you like it?<p>I think there is big room for improvement in this space. Nothing comes close to PDFExpert on the iPad...

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emilsedghover 4 years ago
<i>Okular requires a big installation and KDE libraries, which are fine if you use KDE, but I don&#x27;t.</i><p>I don&#x27;t understand this argument. On Windows and Mac you install apps which come statically built against tens of libraries and you&#x27;re fine with it.<p>Yet on Linux, it&#x27;s such a big deal if an app uses a few libraries (which are reused by tens of different apps).<p>&gt; I cannot find a good reader on Linux<p>It&#x27;s called Okular. You just have some stigma against installing a few megabytes of libraries.
ColinWrightover 4 years ago
I have this in a script:<p><pre><code> nice firefox -private -new-window $*</code></pre>