When comparing Master PDF Editor vs Atril, the Slant community recommends Atril for most people. In the question“What are the best PDF viewers for UNIX-like systems?” Atril is ranked 2nd while Master PDF Editor is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Atril is:
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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Built-in OCR
Pro Free for non-commercial use
Pro Very good import capabilities
Pro Only cross-platform editor that can handle LiveCycle Dynamic XFA forms
PDF-Exchange can handle XFA, but it's Windows only. XFA is usually created in Adobe Acrobat.
Pro 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.
Pro Great Evince fork
It has been forked when Evince was still good.
Cons
Con Proprietary, but reasonably priced
Con Free only for non-commercial use
Con 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.
Con Some GTK dependecy
It needs GTK+ and its dependencies.