Looking for a good interactive pdf viewer

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I like zathura for its simple UI, very nice for just reading. I like xournal for its rich annotation features.

But what I still need is a reader that

Is there such a viewer?

evince will do all that too, except probably not the xournal notes unless you save them in a portable format. I doubt there is any software that will work with xournal's native format except xournal -- it's just too obscure for other people to support. — goldilocks, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:12
I really like evince but it is gnome-dependant. I will take a look at xpdf. — ManuelSchneid3r, Mar 20, 2013 at 22:19
@ManuelSchneid3r evince isn't dependent on any desktop environment. Very few applications are. An application may use this or that widget library which is also used by a desktop environment, but you can mix applications using different widget libraries to your liking. — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Mar 20, 2013 at 23:03
Look ... 4 necessary dependencies and one optional to gnome packages. Well xpdf isnt thaaaat convenient :D. I am looking for a independant evince equivalent for easy work purposes. — ManuelSchneid3r, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:59

ManuelSchneid3r · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-17 10:25:22Z

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Actually this IS zathura. Meanwhile I switched to arch. Now I have an up-to-date version of it. xournal for noting, zathura for everything else.

zathura is just beautiful.

answered Apr 17, 2013 at 10:25

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Glutanimate · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-18 21:08:39Z

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Another alternative would be qpdfview, a lightweight tabbed document viewer. It's Qt-based and DE-independent.

You can find qpdfview in the default Ubuntu and Debian repos. More recent versions are available from the following PPAs:

answered Aug 18, 2013 at 21:08

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