what is a good PDF reader on linux?

[CharlesV]

And if your really modifying large documents.. I would move away form PDF editors and into Inkscape ( or scribus ) , but I *KNOW* in Inkscape you can coy multiple pages.

[CharlesV]

Just verified it in Scribus too.. you can copy multiple pages.

I run both Inkscape and Scribus in AppImages. Both are VERY good, and can work directly with PDF's. Or you can just import them and walk away with fully vector driven documents. (or add / modify etc.. ) .. If you have large documents, that might be a better method. (and you can always push them back out to PDF's too.)

[Stevo]

FWIW, Scribus 1.6.1 is headed to the MX 21 and 23 test repos, but the debs can be downloaded early in this zip, along with the debianized sources

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G8fDKC ... sp=sharing

[CharlesV]

@Stevo Awesome! Thank you !!

[m_pav]

I haven't tried it, but Adobe has an online PDF Editor.
https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/pdf-editor.html

For Open Source, I find Okular to be the most universal, Yes, it appears ugly when filling in forms, but despite its appearance during the edit, it works just fine.

To obtain a full edit, it's possible to open simple PDFs' with LO Draw and it will use its SVG engine to make an editable copy. As with Okular, it's ugly but it works for only simple PDFs. Neither Okular, nor LO will not work with complex and/or protected PDFs'.

I keep an old Windows 7 VirtualBox VM (offline) configured to do most small things that can not be accomplished with Ope Source tools. Last year, I think I opened it only 5 times in total, two of those times were to check it's operation after upgrading my daily driver and my ManShed PC to MX-23. It's trivial to share a folder from my host to the VM for direct access.

Filing all the above, there's always Wine and an older version of Acrobat. I have held an Adobe Reader installation .exe for version 11 in my backups because I think it's the last sane version they produced and even now when I unpack a new Laptop or PC with Windows, it gets this version installed.

[dings]

what is a good PDF reader on linux?

The answer depends so much on the use case.
Good highlighting and bookmarks (for heavy use) are not easy to find on Linux.
Xodo on Android was good. Edge browser has some good highlighting features.
PDF X-Change is good for bookmarks, cropping etc. (Wine/Bottles needed)

[dings]

Just found out that Zotero has a decent highlight function on Linux too (better than in some other applications).

[Danathar]

I've heard really good things about Stirling PDF. Catch: You self host it and then access it via a web browser.

https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

[h3kt0r]

"PDF-Xchange Editor" works super-fine under "Wine" !




Well, THAT version works for me. I haven't tried newest releases...

[MXNewFan]

In Windows for publishing drawings out of Auto CAD into PDF files, we used Ghostscript which is a "PDF Interpreter / Renderer set up much like a printer except it saves a pdf file. I haven't used it in years but their website does offer a Linux 64-bit version & it can be used in lots of other programs. Another program that was really decent for pdf editing especially of forms was OpenOffice. Libre writer has the ability but imo OO (at least in windows) was way better even 15 yrs ago. Some interesting suggestions are to use Xournal++ maybe in combination with python-whiteboard. You can also go back to Adobe if you can forgive them (long list omitted) they have linux solutions if you upload to a cloud server, convert to MSOffice or use their Evince (sniff, snoop).

But you might already have the solution. Firefox- the Internet browser can be set to your default PDF viewer. Without setting it you can still open a pdf (Go to menu by selecting F10 ->File -> Open...) The look for the Annotation Tool icons on the upper right of the screen. You can highlight, draw, add images or text and then save the file. (Or you can print it to pdf.)