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Faster alternative to Evince for PDFs (self.linux)

submitted 4 weeks ago by karet to c/[email protected]

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I've been using evince to open PDFs. But for larger PDFs it is quite laggy, for selecting the text and stuff like that. Is this just a limitation of my computer, or are there faster alternatives to evince?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

@karet I've found zathura+mupdf is very quick and snappy. Poppler (the PDF library most things use, and Zathura can use it too) is ungodly slow. page (from plan9port) is also quite fast (it uses its own PDF code) but I'm not sure what level of compatibility it has.

[–] karet 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot! Just installed it, and it is significantly faster. But it appears there's no support for highlighting text. Is there like a plugin or something like that I can install?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

@karet Zathura is meant to be very minimal, I don't even know if it has plugins (other than for loading other file formats, like epub). If you're wanting something more GUIey, Firefox (and thus Librewolf) has PDF.js support by default, and I've found that to be performant as well.