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A simple comparision of Evince (epdfview does the same) and Sumatra PDF using WINE (Sumatra PDF is open-source software, but written for Windows platform).
Evince vs. Sumatra | RENDERING Evince vs. Sumatra | MEMORY USAGE What is more funny, its more memory efficient to use Sumatra PDF using WINE then Evince natively ... guess whats my new PDF viewer ![]() [1] http://projects.gnome.org/evince/ [2] http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html PS. If You are scared about lack of WINE on amd64, then I have good message for You, these screenshots are from FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using package by Ivoras available here: http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/wine/
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mupdf is absolutely the most minimalistic PDF viewer written in pure C which uses the Sumatra PDF rendering libraries. Most OpenBSD people I know of use mupdf, myself included. Code:
$ uname -a OpenBSD oko.bagdala2.net 4.8 GENERIC.MP#361 i386 $ pkg_info mupdf Information for inst:mupdf-0.6p0 Comment: graphic library, pdf parser, viewer and utilities Description: MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Last edited by Oko; 10th February 2011 at 05:43 PM. |
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Indeed, mupdf is nice for reading the odd book.. doesn't support showing indexes though, so generally I keep epdfview around, xpdf is crap.
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mupdf supports search, using vi-like bindings, but it's not perfect.. no such thing exists for PDF readers.
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BTW, the issue vermaden is having is a known issue.. mostly about it not antialiasing certain things.
I believe the issue is in poppler/cairo, the library used by epdfview and evince. On OpenBSD, I don't see the visual distortions.. perhaps something about your specific configuration or the FreeBSD port, what versions do they use? |
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Thanks for the suggestion of mupdf. It works great.
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I also found a memory leak but haven’t gotten around to reporting it yet…
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Thanks for suggestion on mupdf, seems I may like it since I also use vi a lot, I was also suggested on FreeBSD Forums, that I may have disabled antialiasing in cairo ... do not remember doing that but who knows.
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It supports vi keystrokes, it's C, and it's small. OK, if there's a package available for Zenwalk, I think Evince is getting retirement!
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What's wrong with a user building texlive from source if all of the require dependencies are met?
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At least until the FreeBSD Linuxator grows more, or I have time to extend it.
It's also nice to have easy access to more tools, without having to port them. But it seems, Zenwalk doesn't have a package for mupdf :-/.
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Thanks to all posters on this thread, I've installed epdfview and mupdf on both platforms and they look useful.
Is there any reason you want a package? I compiled the mupdf source on Slackware without incident. Maybe you'll have the same luck on Zenwalk? |
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