How does okular compare to zathura (which can use mupdf or poppler as its pdf backend)?
My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
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Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#22I work in publishing and we use PDFs extensively for proofing manuscripts. If you ever need to compare across PDFs, I created a small tool for it: https://www.parepdf.com/
I really like diffpdf: http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#23Okular is the only PDF reader that could handle PDF on my previous slow computer. Windows was a breeze but I always had problems with PDF on linux before I could settle for okular.
It bugs me that it's easier to select text with the underlining tool than with the select tool.
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#24Okular 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'm on GNOME, go to Gnome Software, search for Okular, click Install - boom it's installed. Since it's made available via flathub.org, Okular and the shared KDE platform libraries are installed as self-contained flatpaks. To ignorant me, looks and runs like any other application.
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#25I 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…
In theory, shouldn't every PDF viewer support printing... and both macOS and Windows 10 support printing to PDF... which flattens the layers? Just tried it with macOS Preview and totally flattens it, the annotations pane lists nothing, I can't select/move annotations... they're permanent. However, also just tried with Acrobat Reader on macOS, and infuriatingly after selecting the system's "Print to PDF" Acrobat pops…
> Why would they intentionally go out of their way to disable that?
I hope that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX is a not-excessively-snarky reply by appeal to history.
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#26How does okular compare to zathura (which can use mupdf or poppler as its pdf backend)?
Okular is to Zathura as Acrobat Reader is to Vim. :-)
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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
it's based on pdf.js ... which is developed on Mozilla. Both projects are open source. It's also free ;)
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#28Okular 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…
Nice app. Suggestions for Polar:
- Make it so that you can /draw/ on PDFs (Okular supports this). - Create an Android app which also allows local/offline usage.
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#29I 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…
Have you found any software for exporting annotations (especially highlighted text)? Ideally, I would want to highlight text, select graphics, and have the software let me export those to PDF or doc/odf. My use case is reviewing academic papers. I looked into Xodo and Foxit, but they don't offer what I need.
Have you tried Zotero with the Zotfile extension?
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#30Okular 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…
You found that you had to download too much bloat to use Okular so you made an Electron app? Im pretty sure you dont have to download all of KDE to use one of its apps, just the package manager and the libraries Okular uses.