I’ve been using evince to open PDFs. But for larger PDFs it is quite laggy, for selecting the text and stuff like that. Is this just a limitation of my computer, or are there faster alternatives to evince?

  • www-gem@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    I used to use the famous Zathura for a long time, but it’s really minimal. Sioyek is an incredible pdf reader so overlooked.
    Amongst a lot of other things, it lets you:

    • quickly preview or jump to figures/references/equations/tables… (even if the PDF does not have links)
    • search paper names in any search engine you like (defaults are google scholar and library genesis) by middle clicking on their name or using keybindings
    • mark locations (using lower case for local mark and upper case for global mark) or create bookmarks for quick navigation
    • highlight text
    • save annotations in a local database or embed them in a new version of the PDF file to share them with others
    • automatically reload a file when it changes

    I wrote a brief overview of it quite some time ago.