Saturday, May 19, 2012

A very lightweight pdf viewer!

Last days i was testing the speed and the quality of the pdf viewers on Linux. Xpdf was out of question. Acrobat reader a good quality but really heavy solution for viewing the files. Another option is the default evince but sometimes the pdf is bit blurry (if for example is scanned). Another new good alternative is the MuPDF. So i did a small test: i used this pdf to test the quality of the pictures:


A better zoom in at the equation shows more details about these three programs:

For me, the MuPDF is the winner, not only because it has the best quality between the other, but for its speed. Its really fast, and it has the same keyboard shortcuts with VIM: ideal solution for me. The mos serious drawback of the viewer is the absence of "copy" from the pdf file. 

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