[aklug] Re: PDF viewer

From: Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Apr 12 2011 - 22:34:36 AKDT

I would like to find something beside Acrobat Reader for my work.

I do need form filling, javascript, and a browser plug-in. As far as I
know, that leaves me with having to have Adobe installed. I do use
Evince when possible though.

Jim G

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 11:00 -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> I read lots of contract documents supplied in pdf format. I fiddle a lot with
> pdf's , like good command line tools, ghostscripts 'pdfwrite' is cool.
>
> I found the following viewer, mupdf, mupdf-tools, has very few depends, and
> operates with keybindings, a plus for a lightweight X environment. It does not
> print, uses 'alt+F4' to close, which is different keybinding, for me, for that
> function.
>
> "a lightweight PDF viewer and parser/rendering library"
> http://www.mupdf.com/index.html
>
>

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