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My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

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Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

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Post by ubercow13 »

tonydiep wrote: post #2

I just evaluated Evince, Okular, Foxit, and Acrobat for annotating PDFs. My particular use case is to annotate emails, spreadsheet, etc., and merge them as exhibits into a legal brief. After annotation, the other programs can export the original or it export the annotation layers but it could not give you a PDF with both the original and the annotations merged into one layer. This was a deal breaker. With Okular you…

I just tried in Evince and you can print an annotated document to flatten it just fine.

Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

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Post by Decabytes »

burtonator wrote: post #7

Okular is actually the reason I created Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ Well, one of the reasons. First, if you like Okular, you're stuck if you want to run on any other platform. It doesn't work on mobile, it doesn't work on the web, doesn't work on Linux, MacOS or Windows [1] Additionally, there were pretty severe bugs when I used it and there were 1-2 long outstanding bugs regarding annotations that weren't fixed…

I thought Okular was the default pdf viewer for Gnu/Linux systems with the K desktop environment?

Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

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Post by ognarb »

burtonator wrote: post #7

Okular is actually the reason I created Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ Well, one of the reasons. First, if you like Okular, you're stuck if you want to run on any other platform. It doesn't work on mobile, it doesn't work on the web, doesn't work on Linux, MacOS or Windows [1] Additionally, there were pretty severe bugs when I used it and there were 1-2 long outstanding bugs regarding annotations that weren't fixed…

Okular has a WIP mobile version for Android and Plasma mobile (with less features). The android build is broken because there isn't any icon, but running okularkirigami from the command line look great.

Also from reading the polar website, it looks like polar is more a document manager than just a document viewer.

Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

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Post by mr337 »

Decabytes wrote: post #13
burtonator wrote: post #7

Okular is actually the reason I created Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ Well, one of the reasons. First, if you like Okular, you're stuck if you want to run on any other platform. It doesn't work on mobile, it doesn't work on the web, doesn't work on Linux, MacOS or Windows [1] Additionally, there were pretty severe bugs when I used it and there were 1-2 long outstanding bugs regarding annotations that weren't fixed…

I thought Okular was the default pdf viewer for Gnu/Linux systems with the K desktop environment?

Yeah I am super confused about that. I have been using okular for years and works on every common distro that I know of if you have KDE desktop or don't mind pulling in KDE deps.

Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

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Post by MegaDeKay »

drenvuk wrote: post #12

Okular is also wonderful for epubs if you documents ever move to that format.

Okular is great for epubs in that it can show them as a single document whereas most programs break them in to chapters that can't be searched across. However, it can also be terribly slow on some epub files even on a fast PC [0]. It also has problems rendering some files that other readers like epubreader have no problem with.

[0] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359932

Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

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Post by burtonator »

ognarb wrote: post #14
burtonator wrote: post #7

Okular is actually the reason I created Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ Well, one of the reasons. First, if you like Okular, you're stuck if you want to run on any other platform. It doesn't work on mobile, it doesn't work on the web, doesn't work on Linux, MacOS or Windows [1] Additionally, there were pretty severe bugs when I used it and there were 1-2 long outstanding bugs regarding annotations that weren't fixed…

Okular has a WIP mobile version for Android and Plasma mobile (with less features). The android build is broken because there isn't any icon, but running okularkirigami from the command line look great. Also from reading the polar website, it looks like polar is more a document manager than just a document viewer.

> polar is more a document manager than just a document viewer.

It's both.. you just add the doc and double click it and you view it in polar in our PDF viewer.

Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

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Post by lainga »

burtonator wrote: post #7

Okular is actually the reason I created Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ Well, one of the reasons. First, if you like Okular, you're stuck if you want to run on any other platform. It doesn't work on mobile, it doesn't work on the web, doesn't work on Linux, MacOS or Windows [1] Additionally, there were pretty severe bugs when I used it and there were 1-2 long outstanding bugs regarding annotations that weren't fixed…

So why doesn't it work well on Linux?

Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

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Post by mistrial9 »

burtonator wrote: post #18
ognarb wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okular has a WIP mobile version for Android and Plasma mobile (with less features). The android build is broken because there isn't any icon, but running okularkirigami from the command line look great. Also from reading the polar website, it looks like polar is more a document manager than just a document viewer.

> polar is more a document manager than just a document viewer. It's both.. you just add the doc and double click it and you view it in polar in our PDF viewer.

"our PDF viewer" ? phone-home solutions fail
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