On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Peter Arremann loony@loonybin.org wrote:
On Jun 19, 2014 10:12 PM, "Bob Hepple" bob.hepple@gmail.com wrote:
<m.roth@...> writes:
Dan Hyatt wrote:
Any suggestions for a good lightweight pdf reader for my centos
servers?
evince, that I think is installed by default?
+1 for evince
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,
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this one, Mark.
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.
markNice find - but it lacks a 'Find' function unless I'm going blind.
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).
okular is another KDE one that I like - rpm is 703186 bytes
epdview is another - rpm is 416642 bytes
Bob
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
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