Supports “following” external URLs (a link that points to a web site for instance), it’s disabled by default though. It might be new, but thanks to the underline “poppler” engine, it renders PDF files fast and without any issues. But most importantly, it has a reasonable amount of options, still looks quite simple and user friendly. It uses a PDF rendering library called “poppler”, the UI is written using the Qt thus it looks modern.

These are again, just a few that I know of to mention.īut, if you’ve already tried all those and looking for another one (for a change -)), then you can try “qpdfview” (new one). Looking for a more professional looking one?, then you can use the popular Foxit reader (it has few issues though) or “ PDFQuench” (if you want to easily crop pages) etc. Or if you want a keyboard oriented ones, then you can try “MuPDF” & zathura. But if you want something that’s both lightweight and simple, then you can try the awesome ePDFView & “xpdf”. However, when it comes to finding free PDF viewer/reader, it seems like GNU/Linux also has a lot of choices too.įor instance, Ubuntu comes with the one called “Evince” (Gnome desktop’s tool actually), the KDE has the awesome “Okular”. Although when considered the popularity differences between MS Windows and GNU/Linux, one would rather assume that Windows should have a lot of choices when it comes to application software.

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