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Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

#31

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This is great! I love the keyboard-based navigation, and the portals are particularly wonderful, almost making me want to turn my documentation monitor back from vertical to horizontal aspect ratio. A few questions/feature requests/comments: Is there a way to link to a page/mark/bookmark/figure from outside the document? Can we export the marks/bookmarks/document state to a plaintext-compatible file? And please add a…

> A few questions/feature requests/comments: Is there a way to link to a page/mark/bookmark/figure from outside the document? Yes you can (if I understood your question correctly). Press p and then navigate to the target file and then press p again to create a portal from the source PDF to the target PDF. (you can press tab to automatically jump to the target document if you need to) > Can we export the marks/bookmar…

> I think portals are perfect for this use case because, as I said, you can create portals across different documents.

Many of the documents I'm consuming are PDFs, but I'm typically creating documents that are not PDFs like source code, Markdown/HTML, or schematics (the latter may eventually be exported to PDF, so the approach does have some merit). That's why I'd like a portal or bookmark to open/change focus to the app and jump to the target in one click from outside the document.

Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

#35

I hope it can have annotation

Unfortunately it currently can't. But I do plan to add it eventually.

so why do you choose https://mupdf.com/ as the pdf engine? how does it compare to google's pdfium https://opensource.google/projects/pdfium

Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

#36

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Unfortunately it currently can't. But I do plan to add it eventually.

so why do you choose https://mupdf.com/ as the pdf engine? how does it compare to google's pdfium https://opensource.google/projects/pdfium

I had some previous experience modifying Sumatra PDF which uses MuPDF so I was already familiar with MuPDF. I didn't really look into pdfium :D.

Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

#37
This is very cool. The two features I hope for are:

1) Annotations. Could be text bubbles in the margins, or perhaps a little glyph I can click on to see/edit the annotation text itself. Annotations should be stored separately in a text-based format to facilitate version control, sharing, and reuse. I want this for reviewing material from others as well as making my own notes (e.g., when working with a datasheet). What I really want is a whole workflow for reviewing, but just text comments would get much of the way there.

2) One column at a time options. Doesn't need to reflow, just needs to present the text in its natural width so as not to require scrolling up and back to navigate a print-oriented two-column layout that makes no sense on-screen. I wouldn't mind having to horizontal-scroll to see full-width figures and footnotes, but I really want to scroll only in one direction to read the text.

Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

#39
This is phenomenal! I've been looking for something like this for a couple of years and am really excited to see someone building it.

When do you expect the Mac/Linux builds to drop? Is there any way to follow your progress / support?

Re: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents

#40

This is phenomenal! I've been looking for something like this for a couple of years and am really excited to see someone building it. When do you expect the Mac/Linux builds to drop? Is there any way to follow your progress / support?

There is an open github issue on the linux build. Currently the project builds and works on linux without any issues. The only thing remaining is packaging the executable so that the user doesn't have to manually install all the libraries which is probably very simple but it is taking me a long time because I am a noob when it comes to linux buils :/ .

The Mac version may take longer simply because I don't have access to a mac computer. Though theoretically it should compile on mac right now.

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