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
    1·
    9 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.

  • OzoneGameDev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    24 hours ago

    you should try papers. it’s a new app that’ll replace evince as the default document viewer for gnome in a future version. it’s still in development but i’ve been using it for a long time and it’s really good.

    • ClownsInSpace2@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      Do you feel like it improves on evince in any way? I saw it a while back but it didn’t look too different imo

    • a14o@feddit.org
      2·
      22 hours ago

      I should add that Zathura comes with a minimal graphical interface and you sort of need to learn the vi-like keyboard controls (or look them up with man zathura). But boy is it fast!

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    2·
    24 hours ago

    I feel like this is just a thing with PDF viewers that don’t paginate their views properly. Try LibreOffice or Xournal as a test to see if they perform better. I never have a problem.