On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 12:43:14PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hi, I’d like to update my list of (usable!) PDF viewers. > Which one do you use? (Current version?) > What are its pros and cons? > Is it free (open source, freeware)? > Does it work on Win/Lin/Mac? > Does it have a localized interface? (I don’t care, but I work with people who > don’t understand a lot of English.) > Can it handle comments, attachments? > Can it handle forms with or without JavaScript? > Does it support SyncTeX? (Who uses that anyway?) > Does it update changed PDFs on its own (or does it even block overwriting)? > Which other features are essential for your choice? > > E.g. I’m working with: > - Preview.app (Mac) > Default on MacOS, fast & easy. No JS, bad forms support, updates > "sometimes". Usable as a previewer, not as a PDF toolbox. > - Adobe Reader DC (Mac) > I use it only to check forms or as reference. Unusable GUI. > - Acrobat Pro 9 (Mac) > Was my workhorse, but works on MacOS Mojave only partly; slow & > crash-prone; no updates. Can check PDF/X<4 and convert colors. > - PDF Studio Pro (on Mac & Linux) > Bought to replace AcroPro9; JS support broken; slow startup; no updates. > Can check PDF/X, A, UA and convert colors. > Ok with forms, but doesn’t support LiveCycle forms (deprecated, but used by > German boards). > - Qpdfview (Linux) > Fast and easy; reliably updates. > - PDF.js (Browser or Atom) > Is said to do SyncTeX (never tried). Easy, but slow. Updates. > > > Curious: Hraban
Hello Hraban, I'm working with only 2 pdf-viewers, "okular" and "xpdf". My main-viewer is "okular", but at the moment it doesn't work with my context-pdfs, I don't know why, but I don't care. Then it's good to have "xpdf" which is simpler than "okular" but works especially in this case. And before sending pdf-data to a printing-house I use "qpdf" not to view, but to transform my pdf files as rotate them to get them binded at a book side not offered by printers. All 3 programs are open source on Linux and because I'm updating regularly my OS, those programs are regularly updated too. JS? Form support? PDF/X/A/UA? Convert colors? SyncTex? Handle comments? I'm not using any of these. To some of them I can't say anything, because I dont't even know, what they are good for. So, I'm sorry not to be able to say more to those possible properties of my used programs: "okular": version: 1.6.3 Manual in German "xpdf": version: 3.04 Manual in English "qpdf": version: 8.4.0 Manual in English Best wishes, Rudolf ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
