Any suggestions for a good lightweight pdf reader for my CentOS servers?
Thanks,
13 thoughts on - Good Thin Client PDF Reader For CentOS 6.4
Dan Hyatt wrote:
evince, that I think is installed by default?
Oh, and here’s a neat one that’s *not* a lightweight reader, that my manager introduced me to last year: xournal. It lets you *edit* .pdfs, including the ones that don’t intend for you to edit them. It was *really*
nice to have that when we did our (US) state taxes – the federal forms are editable, but not the state, except I could with xournal.
mark
Brilliant discovery. Its part of KDE. Thanks a lot :-)
writes:
Nice find – but it lacks a ‘Find’ function unless I’m going blind.
okular is another KDE one that I like – rpm is 703186 bytes
epdview is another – rpm is 416642 bytes
Bob
servers?
*really*
are
I don’t think that the rpm size has much to do with a lightweight process. Shared libs, bad programming, … can all easily cause a small rpm to cause more disk space, memory and CPU usage than a larger one.
If I have to do something remotely or just want a quick glance at something, I still use xpdf. Old interface but just like vi, once you got used to it, it’s just quicker and easier than most modern alternatives.
Peter.
Both xpdf and mupdf are pretty lightweight.
EPEL has xpdf, I think I had to build mupdf from source, or else used a Fedora 13 rpm.
Bob Hepple writes:
ugh! I should have said ‘epdfview’
+1 for evince
Awesome!
Thanks for sharing this one, Mark.
You might be going the slightest bit blind… :-D
On my version of evince there’s a magnifying glass in the top right (plus Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut works).
Someone mentioned a reason or another why to switch away from xpdf. I seem to think it was that development was slow or nearly non-existent, but the recent release is from May 2014 [0]. Eh, I’m probably thinking of something else…
To you, and whoever else, you’re very welcome. When my manager introduced me to it, my *instant* reaction was those state tax forms, but I know there’s lots of other forms out there that the ignorant don’t make fill-outable.
mark
Do you have any suggestions for a good program to create PDF forms
(linux or MS)? I have a PDF document here that we have our customers fill out. I looked into making it a form a while back, but I couldn’t find any reasonable way to do it (there are a LOT of fields and check-boxes on this form). All of the things I tried wanted to add visual elements to the form along with the fields and I don’t have room on the form for that. I just want to be able to say “allow typing here, here, here, …”.
SilverTip257 writes:
Nope – I was talking about xournal. The mag glass there is for zoom.
Awesome
I will try it on Monday
Thanks,
Dan
hehe Thanks for clarifying. I too did not find a search feature in xournal’s menus or gui.
SilverTip257 wrote:
Please note that I was *not* suggesting it for a lightweight .pdf reader, which was what the OP asked for. I was sharing the information that xournal exists, and deals with .pdfs, and not just cool but useful.
13 thoughts on - Good Thin Client PDF Reader For CentOS 6.4
Dan Hyatt wrote:
evince, that I think is installed by default?
Oh, and here’s a neat one that’s *not* a lightweight reader, that my manager introduced me to last year: xournal. It lets you *edit* .pdfs, including the ones that don’t intend for you to edit them. It was *really*
nice to have that when we did our (US) state taxes – the federal forms are editable, but not the state, except I could with xournal.
mark
Brilliant discovery. Its part of KDE. Thanks a lot :-)
Nice find – but it lacks a ‘Find’ function unless I’m going blind.
okular is another KDE one that I like – rpm is 703186 bytes
epdview is another – rpm is 416642 bytes
Bob
servers?
*really*
are
I don’t think that the rpm size has much to do with a lightweight process. Shared libs, bad programming, … can all easily cause a small rpm to cause more disk space, memory and CPU usage than a larger one.
If I have to do something remotely or just want a quick glance at something, I still use xpdf. Old interface but just like vi, once you got used to it, it’s just quicker and easier than most modern alternatives.
Peter.
Both xpdf and mupdf are pretty lightweight.
EPEL has xpdf, I think I had to build mupdf from source, or else used a Fedora 13 rpm.
Bob Hepple writes:
ugh! I should have said ‘epdfview’
+1 for evince
Awesome!
Thanks for sharing this one, Mark.
You might be going the slightest bit blind… :-D
On my version of evince there’s a magnifying glass in the top right (plus Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut works).
Someone mentioned a reason or another why to switch away from xpdf. I seem to think it was that development was slow or nearly non-existent, but the recent release is from May 2014 [0]. Eh, I’m probably thinking of something else…
[0] http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
SilverTip257 wrote:
To you, and whoever else, you’re very welcome. When my manager introduced me to it, my *instant* reaction was those state tax forms, but I know there’s lots of other forms out there that the ignorant don’t make fill-outable.
mark
Do you have any suggestions for a good program to create PDF forms
(linux or MS)? I have a PDF document here that we have our customers fill out. I looked into making it a form a while back, but I couldn’t find any reasonable way to do it (there are a LOT of fields and check-boxes on this form). All of the things I tried wanted to add visual elements to the form along with the fields and I don’t have room on the form for that. I just want to be able to say “allow typing here, here, here, …”.
SilverTip257 writes:
Nope – I was talking about xournal. The mag glass there is for zoom.
Awesome
I will try it on Monday
Thanks,
Dan
hehe Thanks for clarifying. I too did not find a search feature in xournal’s menus or gui.
SilverTip257 wrote:
Please note that I was *not* suggesting it for a lightweight .pdf reader, which was what the OP asked for. I was sharing the information that xournal exists, and deals with .pdfs, and not just cool but useful.
mark