PDF for Linux vs Windows

I show a PDF app for Linux compared with the one in Windows
#pdf #linux #windows
Timetamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Windows 10 Pdf
03:49 Linux Pdf App
12:00 Concluding thoughts

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[AndreaBorman]

I use either Evince or Atril to view PDF files. It works for me. I am so glad to get away from Adobe Reader which is what we had on Windows. Adobe was full of security holes and there was a risk of viruses. At least we don't have to deal with that on Linux.

[TV-kjgi]

When I was forced to switch to Linux due to installation requirements not matching my still working computer, I switched to okular for viewing PDFS and maybe fill forms. I wasn’t got happy with other viewers which were limiting on display the pdfs only.
For some advanced editing I use the software PDF Studio under Linux which is proprietary and cost a one time fee. For those who are familiar with elder versions of Acrobat the interface will look familiar. A demo version is also available.
Master PDF did not worked for me because I wasn’t able to format the text boxes the way I needed them.

[arturofatturi]

Thanks for the video. I use evince because I have a lot of pdf to my research in philosophy. Atril or qpdfviewer are another possibility. Best wishes.

[samshort]

I use Master PDF Editor for Linux and have been for a number of years. It is a very capable editor, however, it is proprietary software and requires a purchase for the full version. A free version is available for download, which used to add a watermark. I don't know if that is still the case.

[juanmacias]

I think open source projects will always be more intuitive, because there are more possibilities of a greater number of devs "dogfooding" the project.

[kizersoozie]

I'm retired, so I haven't used Windows for a few years now. In Linux Mint I can scan a document as a pdf, can create a pdf from any document, and can print any pdf with no issues. Windows is just a bad memory.

[Jeff_Seely]

Yeah, It's a major peeve of my own. I have to read electrical schematic at least once a day and I pine for just a plain old acrobat reader of old. Like in the xp days and before. It's a program that seems so easy to make a simple one to just capture features that are needed by the mainstream user. I've used xreader and evince and they are both great. Thanks for the video!

[JohnDoe-usrq]

I'm a GNOME user, so I'm constantly using evince and I really like it. It's slim, fast and does all I ever needed of a viewer.

[cynth]

it's for this ux/ui convenience that I moved to gnu/linux many years ago. gnome 2 bought me with it's simplicity and ease, and now I'm with mate desktop and I like to use atril for documents

[shifureisaikyou]

I have been using sumatra pdf viewer for windows for years its not bloated open source and still maintaned

[anon_y_mousse]

I use Evince on my Pi, but it's too simple and slow even on the desktop. On the desktop I use Okular because it's the best PDF viewer there is. I do use the inverted color scheme because I like my eyeballs and don't want them exploding. I'm guessing you're not a programmer though, because you say you hardly ever look at PDF's at home. Nearly all the documentation I read is a PDF. And yeah, the open source viewers are so much better in many ways just for those tiny user interface tweaks. The Intel processor manual is 5072 pages long, so it really helps having that page memory. I do miss the days when they'd make it easy to get a dead tree edition.

[-Kal-]

I'm a fan of zathura for reading and Scribus or LaTeX for creating.

[murraydawson]

PDF Studio from Quoppa Software is a paid one, but awesome! All the features of Adobe pro, but no subscription model.

[SirSomnolent]

I was hoping you were going provide some spergy gnu answer like use gs to rasterize each page of the pdf to an incrementing % file with number and then read that into an array to build a readable html pointing to each jpg or whatever as the src.

[marekkedzierski]

So you don't like Adobe. Why not use another pdf viewer in Windows - even this Evince if you like it?

[GerardWassink]

Let me start saying I am NOT a Windows nor an Adobe fan. Running Pop!_OS as my daily driver. But beating Adobe over this page stuff is a bit dihonest AFAIK. You can look for the pages you want to print and enter them in the pages field, seperated by comma’s… The way you present it is overly complicated IMHO….

[fabricio]

My Solution was not to have a Job that needs Windows ans Adobi im Free on Linux

[Roberto_Ronconi]

1. PDF Studio Viewer Qoppa 2. OnlyOffice 3. Xournal ++ 4. LibreOffice Draw. // Tools 1. PDF Tricks 2. PDF Mix Tool - -- All Multi platform