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linux pdf viewer with tabs
Post by COKEDUDE » Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:28 pm
Does anyone know of a linux pdf viewer with tabs? I haven’t been able to find a program that supports this.
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Re: linux pdf viewer with tabs
Post by Fornhamfred » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:33 pm
Re: linux pdf viewer with tabs
Post by svalbard » Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:14 pm
Re: linux pdf viewer with tabs
Post by libssd » Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:32 pm
Adobe Reader is also slow as mud compared to Document Viewer. When I have multiple docs open in Document viewer, they appear as separate tabs at the bottom of the screen in Window List, and I can use the File menu, Alt-Tab, or mouse wheel in the bottom panel to switch from one doc to another. Tabs in the app seem redundant when the OS is handling this function very nicely.
Re: linux pdf viewer with tabs
Post by COKEDUDE » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:35 pm
libssd wrote: Adobe Reader is also slow as mud compared to Document Viewer. When I have multiple docs open in Document viewer, they appear as separate tabs at the bottom of the screen in Window List, and I can use the File menu, Alt-Tab, or mouse wheel in the bottom panel to switch from one doc to another. Tabs in the app seem redundant when the OS is handling this function very nicely.
What do you mean tabs at the bottom of the page? And what do you mean by File Menu? When you use the mouse wheel what ever program to the right of the current program pops up. You can’t control what program pops up.
Re: linux pdf viewer with tabs
Post by libssd » Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:12 pm
COKEDUDE wrote: What do you mean tabs at the bottom of the page? And what do you mean by File Menu? When you use the mouse wheel what ever program to the right of the current program pops up. You can’t control what program pops up.
If you have 3 PDFs open, and no other programs, then you have three «tabs» in the panel, and the mouse wheel flips you from one to another.
I can’t get a screen shot with the File menu pulled down, but it shows all your recent PDF documents, with the most recent one first in the list. Document Viewer is a tool; how you use it is up to you.
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Linux pdf viewer with tabs
Qpdfview is a simple tabbed document viewer which uses the Poppler library for PDF rendering and CUPS for printing and provides a clear and simple Qt graphical user interface. Support for the DjVu and PostScript formats can be added via plugins.
Current features include: — Outline, properties and thumbnail panes — Scale, rotate and fit — Fullscreen and presentation views — Continuous and multi-page layouts — Search for text (PDF and DjVu only) — Configurable toolbars — SyncTeX support (PDF only) — Partial annotation support (PDF only, Poppler version 0.20.1 or newer) — Partial form support (PDF only) — Persistent per-file settings — Support for DjVu and PostScript documents via plugins
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I customized it via Settings/UI/View: «scaleFactor,zoomIn,zoomOut,twoPagesMode,fitToPageSizeMode,rotateLeft,rotateRight,copyToClipboardMode». Now the command to copy is in the toolbar. Pressing Ctrl+c, click edit/copy or use the icon you just added by copyToClipboardMode will offer a selection rectangle to select Text to copy. Well intuitive is something else — I miss some common text selection mode. (Why is that? Does qpdfview is use kinda OCR to get the text.) However like this you can select and copy text and pictures. Try ‘Evince’ if this is not satisfying to you.
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Best of every pdf view i have download. It works best for me.
A simpler and faster version of Okular. I quite like its interface and options. It’s also using Poppler for PDF rendering. Alas, interface icons don’t get recolored by dark themes, so they might be hard to see. Otherwise, I quite love it.
Es muy completo y funcional, con muchas opciones. Los menús sólo están en inglés (aunque son bastante obvios e intuitivos) y algunas opciones sí están traducidas. Gracias por haber hecho este buen trabajo.
Für mich der beste PDF-Viewer für Linux. Danke dafür! Ein Feature vermisse ich allerdings «Datei per Email senden»
Anyone who uses pdfs alot like me needs this application. It is the best. I’ve installed a MS Windows app pdfXchange viewer through Wine, although that works, this does it just a sgood. Bet PDF application on Linux so far — for me anyway. Cheers!
Fast PDF viewer with a nice user interface. Handles large and complicated PDFs like a champ, unlike Mint’s default PDF viewer, Xreader, which can choke on complicated PDFs and take many seconds to load the next page. Great choice for people who want a fast PDF viewer like MuPDF but don’t want to do everything via keyboard shortcuts. Also a good Sumatra PDF replacement for people coming from Windows.
PDF Viewer with tabs
Is there a non-bloated PDF viewer where I could open different chapters (pages) in the same PDF File in different tabs? I’m so tired of jumping around chapter to chapter. Especially, when I’m just trying to go to the appendix for a brief look.
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No, there isn’t. There are PDF readers (e.g. Foxit Reader) that can display different PDFs in separate tabs, but none of them can display different pages from the same document in separate tabs.
If you’re using Adobe Reader then Alt + Left or Right Arrow will take you to the previous or next view, if you just want to flick between two pages.
However, this is only for separate PDF files, not chapters within a single PDF file, so you won’t be able to do this directly in the Foxit UI. However, you can come at it by getting your PDF into multiple files and then opening these as tabs in Foxit Reader. You can do one of the following to get your PDF into multiple files:
- If disk space is not an issue, just make separate copies of the PDF file.
- If disk space is a concern, use NTFS Link to easily create hardlinks of the original file. These will open up as separate tabs in Foxit.
- Use PDF Split and Merge to split the PDF chapters into individual PDFs
Note however, that Foxit is buggy with regards to Unicode file names. Open bug for a few years now and more than a note that they will fix it anytime I didn’t get from them so far.
@xxl3ww: Go to Edit->Preferences and select Documents from the left-hand section list. Make sure Tabbed Documents is checked.
As far as I know, Foxit can let you view different PDF files in different tabs. but reading different chapters in different tabs? I’m not sure it can do that.
You can use Okular pdf reader. It can be installed with following command if you are using apt package:
After installing Okular, you need to enable the multitab option as explained here.
Settings > Configrue Okular. > Program Features > Open new files in tabs
You can open the same document in the same window by drag and drop in different tabs.
It is possible to do it. Infact, I use this feature everyday. I have Foxit Reader version 3.0 (build 1506, but that should not matter)
- Open a pdf document in foxit.
- go to Window menu
- click on New Window option.
- Now you have two tabs of the same pdf document. you can keep the two different chapters and just switch between them by clicking on tabs!
I find this feature very helpful, but seems later versions of the foxit reader removed this options. Hence, I still use version 3.0
This is an answer to a very old question (and probably this solution was not available at the time), but Adobe Reader lets you open multiple windows of the same document. From the Window menu, select New Window .
So, although not tabbed, you can have multiple concurrent views of your doc, and jump between them using the taskbar buttons.
Not a conventional PDF reader but it might be helpful for others that come across this question.
You can download Visual Studio Code and install the vscode-pdf plugin. After this, you can open PDF files in its tabs and deal with them like any other tab. You can split the view horizontally or vertically or with a combination of both. You can also open the same PDF file in two views. Your screen estate is the limit.
It doesn’t have the more advanced editing and annotation features a dedicated PDF reader would but it’s great for viewing.
If you open a PDF in Google Chrome, middle-clicking (or right-click -> open in new tab, or ctrl-click) on a link inside the PDF (e.g. to a chapter or page reference anchor) will open the same pdf in a new tab, at the linked anchor. More or less equivalent to how navigating with internal links in other documents work in the web browser.
Unfortunately it doesn’t offer bookmarks, stack-based navigation etc. The Google Chrome PDF viewer does have very good security sandboxing, though.
I’m aware this is an old question, but it is as of this posting the first result for «PDF viewer with tabs» on Google search, has no particularly satisfactory answers, and the question hasn’t been archived.
I still am looking for a fully-featured reader program with good navigation, bookmarking, annotation, ability to open internal links in tabs, split-window, etc.