Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
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Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
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#2Running X11 on WSL is pretty easy and pain-free these days. The author could hypothetically run Zathura through that setup in a pinch.
I'm all for a good Acrobat alternative though.
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#3Acrobat is the worst. I had to download it to fill in tax forms and suddenly every pdf download triggers a lumbering beast to wake itself up and wrench control of my desktop. It has the feel of scammy shareware from back in the day.
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#4I hate pretty much everything from Adobe. I treat all their software as malware since it's counter intuitive and consumes too much resources. Thank God i'm not an artist/design who has to work with their products daily.
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#5No mention of Sumatra PDF[1]? Windows (only), open source, uses MuPDF.
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#6No mention of Sumatra PDF[1]? Windows (only), open source, uses MuPDF. [1] https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/
I had to ctrl+f the blogpost after reading because I couldn't believe they ended it without even a mention of SumatraPDF!
What a great PDF reader. kjksf, thank you!
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#7In my experience, the best tool to edit PDFs is Master PDF Editor. The older version 4 is even freely available in the arch user repository: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/masterpdfeditor-free
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#8I recommend sioyek if you need some highlighting functionality which is absent in zathura. Moreover, Xournal++ is also pretty good for editing.
What I really want is a PDF editor, with just highlighting functionality, that works like the visual mode.
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#9I hate pretty much everything from Adobe. I treat all their software as malware since it's counter intuitive and consumes too much resources. Thank God i'm not an artist/design who has to work with their products daily.
And even if you were you could manage to earn a living without using Adobe stuff. Ask David Revoy, for example.
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#10What I hate about Preview on macOS is that all opened PDFs are kept in memory as opposed to freeing up the memory when the PDF is not active.
Look I know that I probably should not have 200 PDFs open, but Preview should not be consuming 40GB of memory.