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Calibre
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Powerful book management software, very customizable and scriptable
Features include metadata editing and downloading, coverpage downloading., book tagging and categorization, webpage-to-ebook converter for popular websites, etc. Lots of plugins available to extend functionality.
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Average, non-power users might find the interface somewhat daunting
The interface, while functional is not the most attractive or intuitive which may put some people off and discourage their use.
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Cross-platform
Calibre is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows, 32-bit or 64-bit.
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Can't save text highlights or annotate
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Open Source
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Portable
Calibre has an optional portable build that can be stored on external media along with the users library. It can then be opened from the external media on any windows device.
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Platforms:
Windows, MacOS, Linux
License:
GPL-3.0-only
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Sumatra PDF
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Reads many file types
Including PDF, XPS, DjVu, CHM, EPUB, Mobi, FictionBook, PalmDoc, and comic books.
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Windows only
No Linux or OSX versions available.
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Book updates on the fly
If Book font, style is changed, Sumatra will take the update instantly, No need to close first and import again! Huge time saver for self publishing.
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Portable
The application consists of a single file that can be run without installation. You can put it on an external device, such as an usb thumb stick and run it on any Windows machine from the thumb stick.
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Multilingual
It's available in 69 languages.
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Free and open source
Sumatra is available for free, licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub.
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Windows
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GPL-3.0-only
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FBReader
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Cannot search for books on a SD card
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Built in eBook store
FBReader features an in built eBook store for users to download eBooks onto their devices through the app.
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No light mode
Unusable if you have astigmatism.
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Simple and fast
FBReader, while offering many options is simple in design, with that allowing for fast use.
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UI is bad
User interface is confusing and ugly.
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Books can be saved to SD card
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Complex and confusing app settings
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Cloud sync
FBReader has built in Google Drive sync for the users files, allowing them to store their eBooks online, not taking up room on their local storage.
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Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
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Google Chrome
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Excellent HTML 5 feature support
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Online tracking by default
Chrome allows opting out of tracking by going to Settings > Advanced > Privacy and un-checking any unwanted services. Alternatively Chromium can be used to get a similar browser experience without Google's services on top of it.
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Syncs between devices
By logging into Chrome using a Google account it's possible to sync history, extensions, passwords, bookmarks and other settings between devices. This makes it great for anyone working with multiple devices as it allows experiencing consistent context when in the browser.
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Huge memory hog
Each tab and extension in the browser uses significant chunks of RAM, giving the browser poor performance on machines without enough RAM to supply.
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Simple user interface
For example, the address bar is also the search bar. Google calls it Omnibox.
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Bad for battery life
Drains battery life on both Windows laptops and Macs much quicker than the alternatives. It can shave hours off the battery life of any non Chromebook laptop.
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Great built-in developer tools
Chrome comes with built-in developer tools, making testing and enhancing web pages simpler for those of us involved in working with such technologies. As well as being beneficial to developers, this also has some benefit to non-technical users; in that by making testing simpler for developers those developers are more likely to use Chrome for their tests, and can spend more time making improvements over investigating underlying causes of issues.
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Not fully open-source
While most of Chrome is open source: Chrome does have some closed-source components to make it possible to play some closed media formats.
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Plenty of extensions
There are far more available on this browser than any other, and that may matter for some.
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Increasingly slow
When Chrome first came out, it was known for being lightweight and very speedy. Over the years, more and more features have been added to Chrome. Because of this, crashes, errors, and general laggy-ness has increased noticeably.
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Good performance
According to TopTen Reviews, Chrome is currently one of the best performing browsers for initial (cold) startup, average startup, and navigation times. Works very well with the uBlock Origin adblocker.
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It's Google
Data collection!
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Automatically updates
Chrome updates in the background ensuring you're always on the latest version. This makes it much more likely that sites will work on your browser, since (almost) all Chrome users will be running exactly the same version.
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No mobile extensions
Chrome on Android and iOS does not support extensions.
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Multiple account login
You can have multiple Chromes with different accounts logged at the same time. And it is really easy to manage different accounts.
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Not as customizable as Firefox or Vivaldi
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Works great with many extensions
Unlike Firefox, Google Chrome can keep its fast performance regardless of how many extensions are installed. With more than 10 extensions Firefox gets slower and slower in a geometric progression rate. Google Chrome doesn't care how many extensions the user has installed - 3 or 133 it still performs great.
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Big target for hackers
Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. That makes it the most targeted browser in the world by hackers.
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Customizable by user
Each of the managed users can have their own configuration (themes, extensions, ...)
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Hard/impossible to transfer passwords to a different machine without uploading them to Google
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Can translate text directly
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Bad quality control on extensions
Some just plain don't work while a few actually break the browser.
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Uses Blink
It uses the blink rendering engine which has removed many legacy khtml/webkit code to be much lighter and faster.
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Basic
Unlike Brave and Vivaldi which are more stable and have more features, Chrome is pretty basic.
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Only one distributor
Unlike those various unofficial Chromium builds, there is only one distributor, so all Chrome releases follow the same standards.
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Blurred fonts on Windows
Fonts on Windows are blurred, that is especially noticeable in light fonts on dark background. Small italic text is hard to read.
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Sandboxed Tabs
Every tab runs as their own process, so if one crashes or becomes unresponsive, the whole browser isn't affected.
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No menu bar on Windows
There's no menu bar, except on Mac OS or Linux appmenu.
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Chrome is faster than Firefox
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Does not hardware accelerate HTML5 video correctly
Chrome is unable to hardware accelerate HTML5 video correctly which makes playing 4k video on laptops a poor experience filled with lag. Though there is a workaround for YouTube in that a plugin can be installed to force Flash playback instead of HTML5, which plays smoothly and has no HW acceleration issues. There's another plugin (h264ify) that will force to use the h.264 codec video if available instead of the VP9 one which is the resource hog.
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Simple interface
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No reader view
Unlike most other browsers, Chrome doesn't have a reader view function.
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Data collection
Chrome uses online services to collect our data and improve our browser experience. But this also means it spies on you.
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American agents may track you
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Engine is open-source
Chromium is open source, except the proprietary media codecs like AAC, H.264, MP3 and Adobe Flash, that can't be legally open-sourced.
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Soon to disable AD blocking and create DRM for the web
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Popular
As of March 2015, Chrome is the most popular browser on the internet, with a 43.9% - 63.7% market share, Its rendering engine Blink is also the most used rendering engine and used in many products including: Opera, Vivaldi, Qt, Brave, Steam or Electron meaning most developers will be testing their sites against this browser to ensure compatibility.
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Gives too much weight to Google on the future of the Web
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Backed and supported by Google
Whilst Chrome is based on the open source browser Chromium, Google reviews this code and build on top of it. This means it takes (and contributes to) a number of the benefits of the open source model whilst having the resources, support and investment of a major company.
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Plays more media formats than any open source browser
Includes support for many licensed unfree media formats.
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Multimedia Plugins and Codecs included
Google Chrome comes with its own flashplayer and the most common multimedia codecs so you don't have to worry that they are outdated nor do you need to install them as a third party package.
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Platforms:
Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, iOS
License:
EULA
Based On:
Chromium with proprietary Media codecs and Addons
Browser Engine:
Blink, Webkit on iOS (since Apple does not allow third-party web engines)
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Sumatra PDF
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Starts quickly
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Windows only
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Free and open source
Sumatra is available for free, licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub.
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Lacking in features
Sumatra aims for simplicity at the expense of functionality. For example, there's no way to annotate PDFs or edit them.
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Low resource usage
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Fonts are not smooth enough
Not as smooth as e.g. Adobe Reader. No anti-aliasing
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Does not have heavy editor features
Annotations and other heavy features are just not needed in reader.
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Cannot crop empty fields
Just got used to this killing feature on Goodreader on Mac.
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Extensive keyboard shortcuts
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Elegant interface
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Portable
The application consists of a single file that can be run without installation. You can put it on an external device, such as an usb thumb stick and run it on any Windows machine from the thumb stick.
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Multilingual
It's available in 69 languages.
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Platforms:
Windows
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GPL-3.0-only
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MuPDF
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Super fast
It was written in C and opengl, so your hardware was used fully.
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No print option
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Vim-mode shortcut keys
Super easy to use with rapid response.
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No two page mode
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Excellent for presentations
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Not enough functionality
If you want "minimal," you got it.
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Annotation capability
With mupdf-gl, you can do most of the annotations and comments.
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The annotation does not have good shortcut key support
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Cannot customize shortcut keys
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Windows, Linux, Android, iOS
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Cool Reader
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Constantly changes brightness
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Free and open source
Cool Reader is available completely free and is also open source.
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Could have a better UI design
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Fully customizable
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Does not support DRM .epubs
.epubs with DRM are not supported by Cool Reader.
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A wide range of formats supported
Cool Reader supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM) and pml formats.
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Platforms:
Android
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GPL-2.0-only
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qpdfview
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Low on resources
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Deadly slow on complex pdf files
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Reloads on changes instantly
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File information missing page size
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Outline, properties and thumbnail panes
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No multiple mapping of commands
For example: moveDown=Down moveLeft=Shift+Left moveRight=Shift+Right moveUp=Up Having two key mappings to execute the moveUp command doesn't seem to be possible.
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Open multiple pdfs in tabs
qpdfview is a tabbed document viewer.
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Configuration intended via GUI
There is no explicit documentation of configuration parameters used in qpdfview.conf and shortcuts.conf (those are the most important ones). However the files are editable conveniently, which is of value.
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Allows for some scripting
Opens files in named instances, open files on designated page. Calling of userscripts on a document is thus far not possible.
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Fast search in all opened files
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Dark mode
However only inverted colors.
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Scale, rotate and fit
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Supports TOC-sidebar
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Switch tabs with keyboard shortcuts
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Continuous and multiple-page layouts
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Add highlights and text annotations
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DjVu support
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Fullscreen and presentation views
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PostScript support
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Custom background colors
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Multiplatform
It is available on any major computer OS.
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Deactivation of GUI elements
e.g.: toggleMenuBar toggleToolBars
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Supports thumbnail preview
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Input forms are editable
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Zathura
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Lightweight
Zathura is fast and can open a pdf file almost instantly.
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No annotation support
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Clean interface
Inferface is clean and shows only a small statusbar.
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No thumbnail view
Unlike qpdfview, okular and evince, which have it.
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Vim bindings
You can browse files via keyboard, using keyboard commands similar to vim (text editor).
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Input forms are not editable
qpdfview, okular and evince do this.
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Automatic document reloading
Zathura will automatically refresh the view when a document has been modified. (By contrast, Chrome requires a manual refresh and brings you back to the top of the document so that you have to scroll back down).
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Default page layout always same and predictable
No unpredictable window opening behavior like Atril. Together with it's easy ways to scroll and zoom, zathura is perfect for fast look through lots of PDFs
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Detailed adjustment of dark mode
recolor-darkcolor recolor-lightcolor recolor-keephue recolor-reverse-video (see manpage zathurarc) Also, proper dark mode: colors are grayscaled not inverted.
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Deactivation of all GUI elements
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Very detailed adjustment of page layout
For example: pages-per-row 3 (3 pages next to each other) first-page-column 3:1 (for 3 page column layout: first page is on the left) page-right-to-left false (2nd and 3rd page are shown right to the 1st) Unfortunately I haven't found a way yet to map these commands to a key. The ability to prefix a shortcut with a number argument would lend itself perfectly to achieve what I had in mind.
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Call userscripts on document
For example: map <C-l> exec "termite -c ./termite_config --class float -e 'tmux new-session /bin/ranger $(dirname "%")'" <C-l> opens ranger with directory containing the opened document Other ideas: extract pages print pages
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Good documentation of configuration options
See man page "zathura".
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Multiple tabs via tabbed
https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/ But unlike qpdfview search will only operate on one tab instance.
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Platforms:
Linux
License:
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Kindle for PC
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Built in store
The Kindle app for Android features an in built eBook store within the app that sells eBooks, magazines, newspapers, comic books and graphic novels. Amazon also offers one of it not the biggest eBook store available today.
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Send to Kindle now has to be paid for
Send to Kindle only works if a user is already paying for a cloud subscription plan.
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Send to Kindle
The Kindle platform allows users to upload their own eBooks and documents to be read on any of the Kindle apps or devices.
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Not good for students research
The eBooks available from Amazon do not offer normal page numbers, printing or even copy paste, which makes using any of the ebooks for reports or papers pretty much impossible.
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App supports a multitude of operating systems
Kindle for PC is one of the many apps available from Amazon for the Kindle platform. This allows users to keep their library with them no matter what device they are using.
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Mozilla Firefox
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Strong HTML5 feature support
Firefox scores strongly on HTML5 feature support. Though not as strongly as Chromium/Chrome browsers do.
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Some built-in advertising
With their new "pocket" feature, they offer advertisements built-in.
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Syncs between devices
Firefox Sync is an optional feature in Firefox that allows syncing bookmarks, passwords, and add-ons between devices.
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Cannot directly translate page
Unlike Google Chrome, if you visit a website with a different language, you cannot translate it, which is a bad user experience for some.
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Free, open source and community driven
Firefox is available as a free download. All Mozilla software is licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Instructions on how to obtain the source code can be found here.
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Lack of keyboard shortcuts customization
Keyboard shortcuts can not be changed in a user-friendly way. It is also difficult to manipulate addons with hotkeys.
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Respects your privacy
Mozilla is one of the first browsers that advocates privacy. They believe that internet should be in the user's control and not those who run the websites, and so they give tools inside the browser to make the user be more in control.
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When you search in a website (Ctrl + F) there are no marks appearing in the right scrollbar
All Chromium based browsers have this feature.
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Strong developer tool
The built-in developer tools have been merged with the popular FireBug extension since FF57.
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Installs Addons with updates
Mozilla is installing/integrating addons with every update like the Mr. Robot promotion - it also has integrated Pocket that spams you every time you open the browser or a new tab with partners of Pocket.
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High performance
The Firefox Quantum update (FF57) greatly increases the render speed and general performance of the browser, by taking better advantage of the user's hardware.
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Uses Google as its default search engine
Which is pretty ironic for a browser that's focused on "privacy".
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Reader View
Reader View in Firefox allows users to read an article without any distractions by removing ads, unrelated elements and other distractive objects (similar to Microsoft Edge's Reading Mode and Safari's reader mode).
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Sometimes very buggy and slow
On sites like twitch.tv chat scrolling is still not fixed. Compared to other browsers Firefox is still very slow and feels sluggish.
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One of the few browsers not using Chrome's Blink engine
Firefox uses its own rendering engine (called Gecko), instead of Google-controlled Blink like the vast majority of other browsers.
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Uses GTK on Linux/BSD
This makes the integration on non-GTK Desktop Environments very hard.
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Fast
With new integrations focused on security and performance, Firefox is faster and less likely to have problems during use than ever before.
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Multi Profile is not user friendly
Multi profile requires commandline -no remote to use and open about:profiles to create manually (on Chrome, you can instantly create them on right top user button).
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Open Source
Open Source means that you can see the source code. So everybody even if they don't work for Mozilla is able to look what the browser does in the background. So you can be 100% sure that Firefox doesn't have hidden "spy features" unlike Google Chrome.
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Antivirus has False positives
All Downloads in Firefox are scanned for viruses, but there are a lot of false positives.
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Good font rasterizing
Font rasterizing on Windows is much better than in competitors. Even smaller text is clear and contrast.
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Doesn’t support multiple languages for spell check
If you write in multiple languages, you need to manually switch the spell check language.
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Automatically updated
Firefox is automatically updated on the platforms where it makes sense.
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Terrible user interface
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Uses less resources
Firefox 57 (Quantum) and newer uses less resources than ever. It is proven with benchmark done by AppleInsider.
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Crappy license
Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification.
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Dark theme
Beyond the toolbar and tabs, it darkens UI elements such as the URL-bar, pop-downs, new-tab page and more.
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Major updates may break any installed add-ons
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Awesome customizability
Great library of add-ons.
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Now forces install and use of snap
Only on Ubuntu
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Tagging bookmarks
Firefox is one of the few browsers that you can tag your bookmarks. You can view a list of tags and can search your bookmarks in the address bar with tags.
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New icon looks ugly
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Really independent browser
It's not dependent on Google.
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GTK Themes styles the HTML forms
If you're in Linux and you use a dark GTK theme that uses white text and come to a webpage that forces black text on html-forms buttons you will get black buttons with unreadable black text.
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Screenshot tool
Powerful screenshot tool built right into the browser.
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Doesn't care for its original guidelines/goals
Mozilla originally aimed to be the "good guys" with user choice and privacy in mind. Their current leadership cannot be trusted to hold those goals in high regard: 1) Added Pocket - a privacy data sensitive plugin, made it mandatory 2) Tried to sneak in advertisement as "drive-by hack", backpedaled unconvincingly once users complained 3) Tried to randomly inject a small percentage of Firefox downloads in Germany with a data collecting plugin (Cliqz) that tech-savy Germans consider adware (no opt-out question asked).
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Ethical and pragmatic company mission
The Mozilla Manifesto outlines the company's mission and principles. Paraphrasing, they want the Internet to be a free and open resource, and to enable individuals to get the best use of that resource. They do this by creating open source software to which anyone may contribute, so long as such contributions fit with their principles (both ethical and technical).
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It's a memory hog even though Mozilla claims it is not
Mozilla claims it's using 30% less RAM than Chrome but in real life tests it uses much more.
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A lot of add-ons
An enormous number of add-ons.
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Fast bookmark management
In order to add an open page to the bookmark bar, the tab can be dragged down and is added immediately.
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Built-in privacy protection
Blocks tracking cookies, finger print scanners and Cryptominers by default. Can be changed to the user's individual needs.
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Lower memory fingerprint than competitors
Firefox used to be a trailer in memory usage, but as of 2017 it's less hungry for memory than competitors like Edge, Chrome, Safari and Opera.
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Text-to-speech (with adjustable speed) without add-ons
Firefox Reader Mode includes Narrate, a feature that adds text-to-speech functionality to the browser.
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Very secure
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Firefox experiments
FF experiments are Mozilla projects available from FF Test Pilot, such as Firefox Colour, witch lets you customise your browser theme to your liking!
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Firefox Lockwise password management
Helps store your usernames and passwords. Lockwise also lets you know if any of the sites you have login details for have had their (and potentially your) data leaked!
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HTML5 video preload
The only web browser that only preloads entire HTML5 video which is useful for slow internet.
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Mobile
Firefox has a solid mobile app.
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Integration with Pocket
Firefox comes with built-in Pocket integration that can allow users to quickly save the article for a read it later function to easily find any articles saved in Pocket from various sources and devices.
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Installed by default on many Linux distributions
Many Linux distributions come preinstalled with Mozilla Firefox
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About:config
Master about:config and uBlock Origin, and all Firefox-based browsers will be yours.
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WebRender
The newer versions of it will soon use WebRender to render webpages, which'll make it much more efficient by utilizing GPU to paint webpages.
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UI
UI is better than any other chromium-based browser.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android,iPadOS
License:
MPL-2.0
Based On:
Netscape>Mozilla Suite
Browser Engine:
Gecko, Webkit on iOS(since Apple does not allow third party web engines)
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Chromium
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Cross-platform
Chrome and Chromium are available on almost every device nowadays
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Lacks privacy options
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Latest Blink
This is the browser Blink is made for and developed alongside.
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High RAM usage
Due the sandboxing, Chromium also eats a lot of RAM , which can be a problem for machines with smaller RAM.
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Sandboxing
Every tab and plugin runs in its own subprocess so they will never affect the whole browser ,however that consumes more memory than other browsers
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No official builds
There are no official builds available so you have to rely on a third party distributor
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Completely Open Source
Both Chromium and and its rendering engine Blink are licensed under the BSD-license which includes no copyleft unlike the GNU or Mozilla Licenses.
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Not possible to disable WebRTC
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Access to Chrome's extensions
Chromium can access the Chrome Web Store and all the extensions hosted there can be installed and used on Chromium.
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Fat, slow, and another piece of google spyware
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Supports all of Google Chrome features
As Chrome is based on Chromium they overlap in supported features. Chromium syncs between devices, automatically updates, has great built-in developer tools, installs extensions without a restart, includes a combined text bar for entering URLs and searching and has excellent HTML5 compatibility just like Chrome.
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Lacks support for certain common media formats
As Chromium avoids bundling any proprietary software, media that requires proprietary codecs or formats such as AAC, H.264, MP3 and Flash will not play by default on Chromium.
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Bare
It does not have any extensions preinstalled and focuses to be a web browser.
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Can be dangerous / only available as Source
There are plenty of unofficial Chromium distributors and every one of them can disable specific features (like sandboxing) for their build, so you will never know what you get.
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BSD license
You can do almost anything with the code.
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Under BSD License
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Gets constant updates
While the Chromium-based browser haev to adapt their code to the update before release, original Chromuim doesn't need it so it gets updated more constantly and frequently.
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Chromium sets the standard for Web Browsing
Since Google Chrome is the most used web browser, and that browser along with many others is based on Chromium, Chromium sets the standards for the internet and for security, and Firefox will always be years behind.
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Backed by Google
Chromium was first released as a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project by Google in september 2008. The idea was to encourage developers to review the underlying code and to contribute in making Chrome cross platform and port it to Mac and Linux as well. Nowadays Chromium is a large project with a huge community that's standing behind it but still Google continues to take an extremely active role in Chromium development. This ensures the longevity and constant development and improvement of the browser.
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Does not come with Google
Unlike Chrome it does come wihout any Google account requirement.
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Evince
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10
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Can annotate a pdf
It isn't immediately obvious how to do this, but the instructions are here. As of 13 June 2018, the icons/screenshots on that page look different than what can be seen under Evince v3.18.2, but the devs have been alerted to this discrepancy, and there are requests they make the finding/using of annotations more intuitive than they are now.
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Keyboard shortcuts cannot be rebound
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Search results list
Click/tap the magnifying class in the top bar.
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Scrolling is not smooth
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Good SEARCH
Evince remained my preferred viewer due to the excellent presentation of results in the whole document when performing a search. It is so good, that it makes me tolerate the silly "hamburger" (CSD) foolishness.
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Adding annotations isn't as intuitive as it should be
Instructions can be found here. Specifically, a user should be able to select a word or block of text, then right-click and see highlight/add note options in the drop-down menu. Currently, this option isn't available (as of Evince v3.18.2 / 13th June 2018).
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Link preview on hover
Evince shows a popup with the preview of the target of links in the same document. This is extremely useful e.g. for links to the bibliography or for references to definitions/propositions/equations in math texts.
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Poor UI
Since version 3 it is almost unusable.
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Free and open source software
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Can't delete pages
No Hand Tool. Automatic Zoom broken. You have to boot in to windows to have a decent PDF reader.
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Can find a word in a pdf
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Bugs that never get fixed
Irritating bugs that never get fixed (such as starting scrolling randomly when moving mouse around) and devs that don't care.
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Supports touchpad gestures
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Tied to GNOME
Comes with all those weird things like popovers and clientside windows.
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Good integration with Gnome desktop
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Slow to open PDFs
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Supports touch interaction
Supports touch, including drag and pinch to zoom.
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CSD - Why do you need to search for stuff you know is there... somewhere.
MS thought it was smart to remove "Start" buttons. With CSD, devs thought it would be good for productivity to play hide and seek with standard functions. And Evince regrettably is also riding that wave. It is that Evince has a superior (whole document) search result presentation and that its function is pretty simple and straight forward (read, search), that it makes me tolerate the silly "hamburger" (CSD) foolishness. If Atril (no CSD) would have similar search result output, a switch over would be just one heartbeat away...
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Can play embedded video
To my knowlegde, the only PDF reader on Linux that can play embeded video (unfortunately not in presentation mode, which is a major drawdack).
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Window can't be resized
You can only read in a small box or fullscreen, no way to manually size window.
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Thumbs not working
Scroll once, and all thumbs in the side panel are gone.
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Unicode problems
Some languages other than English do not render correctly.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader
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6
Experiences
Pros
5
Cons
1
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Con
Does not work without log-in
Adobe is one of the biggest data harvesting companies.
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Real All PDF
There isn't a PDF file which cannot be read by this app.
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Cloud compatible
Can connect to Dropbox and Google Drive.
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SD location recognition
Locate SD location and scan it quickly.
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Multiple view modes
Page, scrolling, two-page (in landscape) and a reflow mode.
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Just works
The app reads all PDF files.
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Adobe Reader
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9
Experiences
Pros
3
Cons
6
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Con
No Distribution version of the installer
Adobe only provide exe files and do not provide an msi installer for bulk deployment
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Integrated cloud service
Gives access to a cloud service that allows storage and sharing of PDF files.
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Lack of support
Adobe support openly admitted to not supporting the product and recommend the use of forums.
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Allows comparing two separate PDF files for differences
Reader can compare two versions of a PDF file and highlight differences.
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Proprietary / Monopoly
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Best in class compatibility with the PDF standard
Since Adobe is the creator of the PDF standard, it stands to reason that Adobe's Acrobat Reader has the best support for it.
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Data Breach in 2013
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Software feels slow and bloated
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No way to auto-update for standard users - needs admin credentials to update
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Atril
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4
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Pros
2
Cons
2
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No GNOME3
It is a straight port of the GNOME2 Evince to GTK3 without sacrificing its UI like Evince 3 did. It also has all the cool stuff that professional apps need, like: Menubars, editable Toolbars, Menus with Icons, Menus with keyboard shortcuts.
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Disappointing search
In comparison with its origin, Evince, the search results in Atril is disappointing. You can search, but only locates your search term per page, the one you're located on. Want to find it elsewhere? Search all pages one by one, page by page. Hence, I personally, working/ searching in large pdfs, therefore prefer Evince, which does give you the search result for the whole document. Apart from this, Atril seems a great piece of (fork) work.
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Great Evince fork
It has been forked when Evince was still good.
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Some GTK dependecy
It needs GTK+ and its dependencies.
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pdf-xchange Editor
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4
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Pros
2
Cons
2
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Pro
A complete set of shapes with properties control as well as a calibrated measuring/dimensioning tool
You can use Playonlinux to install the Windows exe file with 32-bit wine.
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Closed source
Execution under Linux only via wine. Sandboxing recommended.
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Provides proper annotation support
Unlike xournal which only adds a graphical layer on top.
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Need to install the Windows version as no native Linux version is available
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Xodo PDF Reader & Editor
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12
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Pros
8
Cons
4
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Efficient user interface
You get what you want by few interactions.
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Incitation to update to Pro Version
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Works great with diverse cloud services (e.g. Seafile) and saves changed documents on the fly in the cloud
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Column view buggy
Sometimes the column view is not correctly displayed.
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Very (very) good support
Feature Requests and bugs are nicely handled.
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No more Google Drive API
Xodo has stopped Google Drive API compatibility.
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Multi-tabs
Can open more than one PDF at a time in tabs.
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Lag when reading
When switching pages, there can be some lag and a re-zoom of the page.
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PDF can be read from SD Card
Xodo does not copy the PDF files to the internal memory.
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Reflow
App can reflow any PDF for an enhanced reading on small terminals. The process is a bit slow but works for every PDF.
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No ads
The reader offers a lot of features for free with no ads.
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Great handling for S-Pen/Digitizer
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PDF Expert
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3
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Pros
1
Cons
2
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Pro
Fast and smooth
It is a software focused on consumption and not in editing PDF (yes, you can accentuate highlight, draw shapes and sign). They managed to build a nice looking efficient product in which they propose to do.
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Expensive for what it offers
It is an item that improves aspects of PDF reading (which is free: Preview) but lacks professional features that other similar software has.
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Missing settings options
Lacks basic settings like anti aliasing level.
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Foliate
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Experiences
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2
Cons
1
Specs
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Pro
Supports coloured text
Important for example for IT books (source code) or other reference books.
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No PDF support
Foliate cannot be used to read PDFs, which may be a problem for those who read many documents in this format.
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Minimal reading UI
When reading, there is only a customizable progress indicator at the bottom, and the title at the top.
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