[HN Gopher] Okular - Universal document viewer
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Okular - Universal document viewer
Author : Tomte
Score : 105 points
Date : 2022-05-07 14:07 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (okular.kde.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (okular.kde.org)
| causality0 wrote:
| I'm playing with it a bit and it doesn't seem to be that great.
| "Trim margins" doesn't work on images and it takes a bizarrely
| long time to open a single image file, on the order of four
| seconds.
| GekkePrutser wrote:
| I use this on KDE, on FreeBSD.
|
| I don't have very high requirements for PDF viewers. It does the
| job just fine anyway :)
| Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote:
| Nice. Seems to be missing text overwrite in the annotations.
| Where you want to type new text to replace existing text and the
| old text gets a strikethrough. I use this a lot when reviewing
| documents.
| qwerty456127 wrote:
| Okular saved me huge amount of time because it allows to select a
| column in a PDF file and copy it to clipboard. All the other PDF
| viewers I tried would only select text sequentially line by line.
| the_third_wave wrote:
| Try _mupdf_ [1], it allows the selection of any rectangular
| shape. Use the "right" mouse button to select an area, the
| text contents of which are copied to the primary selection on
| pressing _Enter_ from where they can be pasted using the
| "middle" mouse button.
|
| _apt install mupdf_ on Debian, your distribution may vary.
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| [1] https://mupdf.com/
| MisterSandman wrote:
| I use this everyday for school. It has its annoyances, but
| overall is great and very lightweight.
| [deleted]
| robonerd wrote:
| Okular works nicely for .cbz files (zip files of images.) Oddly,
| it won't open the same files named with a .zip extension. Not a
| terrible inconvenience, just a little odd.
|
| My favorite okular feature is the way _click-and-drag to pan_
| wraps around between the top and the bottom of the screen.
| Excellent UX.
| rg111 wrote:
| I use Okular for all my readings on my daily driver Linux laptop-
| research papers, textbooks, novels- everything.
| random_walker wrote:
| Can it restore state after system restart on Ubuntu?
| hexomancer wrote:
| Shameless plug: If you use okular to tead research paper and
| textbooks you may be interested in sioyek which is an open source
| PDF viewer specifically designed for that.
|
| https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek
| lukifer wrote:
| If any Mac users are hunting for a binary, you can find one here:
| https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Okular_Release_macos/
|
| It certainly seems, though, that Macs are an afterthought for
| this project: the binary is unsigned, the last successful build
| is over six months old, and the UI isn't anti-aliased on Retina.
| ryukafalz wrote:
| > It certainly seems, though, that Macs are an afterthought for
| this project
|
| The primary target for this is KDE Plasma, so yes, they
| probably are.
| tsar9x wrote:
| Preview is pretty great on macOS.
| skavi wrote:
| This is a nice app, and the best pdf viewer i could find for
| windows. that said, the scrolling behavior sucks on both windows
| and a debian build i tried it on.
| rg111 wrote:
| > the best pdf viewer i could find for windows
|
| I haven't _used_ Windows for at least half a decade, but I
| remember using Sumatra PDF, and thought that was the best pdf
| viewer for windows.
|
| It's free, extremely light -weight and feature rich. And reads
| a lot formats- epub, mobi, cbr, you name it.
|
| You should definitely try Sumatra PDF.
| marcodiego wrote:
| Not multi-platform, unfortunately.
| GreeningRun wrote:
| Can't be agree more I use Sumatra every day
| MegaDeKay wrote:
| What is wrong with the scrolling behavior? It seems fine to me.
| I just tried it on Arch: scrolling with Page Down and during
| Find is instant and works exactly like I would expect. I like
| that you can configure the Page Up/Down overlap for scrolling
| as well.
| skavi wrote:
| Sorry, I should have specified touchpad scrolling. (two
| finger drag)
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| Since when did HN become Freshmeat?
| mr337 wrote:
| I love okukar and use it regardless of desktop environment.
| gerdesj wrote:
| Okular just works. Really quickly. It does the job and gets out
| of the way.
| jarenmf wrote:
| Okular is my daily driver, I configured minimal vim keybindings
| and easy shortcuts for review tools which really enhanced my
| productivity. The configuration is also easily portable. Over the
| years, I build my own conventions for highlighting and reviewing.
| smartmic wrote:
| See also my posting a few days ago: Okular becomes the first eco-
| certified computer program
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31185495
| N3Xxus_6 wrote:
| I use this on Linux to read documents. It's great.
| bitlax wrote:
| I use Okular because I can customize the pdf colors, so if I want
| a dark mode I can pick low contrast colors instead of just
| inverting.
| bronzecarnage wrote:
| You can also customize Zathura using
| ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc with the following (for instance):
|
| ``` set default-bg "#2E3440"
|
| ## Start in dark mode by default set recolor true
|
| ## Nord colors for dark more set recolor-darkcolor "#D8DEE9"
| set recolor-lightcolor "#2E3440" ```
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