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pdf and document reader

I am looking for a PDF and Document reader that is NOT dependent of gfvs or udisk2

Okalar and envince seem to be both unnecessarily depending on those CPU hogs.  I just need something that can read documents. I don't need them to find documents, or scan my computer constantly for documents or look for filesystems or mount filesystems.

I don't need them to do a damn thing other than open the document and display it rationally on the screen.


It is so NICE for these developers to be generous with my CPU cycles. 

Re: pdf and document reader

Reply #2 –
I was going to recommend zathura, too, but darcy beat me to it.

Personally I'm using the poppler backend (zathura-pdf-poppler). For me, the mupdf backend would pull in more deps (since I have gimp installed, I need poppler anyway). Not sure about functional differences, but I've been happy with poppler.

Long time ago I used mupdf alone; the interface was somehow clunky compared to zathura. That may have changed, though.

With other addons, zathura can also display djvu, ps, and cb.

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Reply #3 –
When I was in school, the ability to high light and notate PDF textbooks was a huge lift.  But the gvfs and udisk2 hooks are just too much over time.   And there is just no nee d for it. I removed gvfsd by force with rm to get rid of it.  It would bring my workstation it its knees.

How can these developers me so blind to not understand how debilitating these daemon processes are to the computing experience.  These folks spend too much there time on MS systems where slow and debilitating is the expected norm.

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Reply #4 –
I personally use mupdf standalone which is indeed very minimalist but also very fast and it suits my needs. I wouldn't reccommend it widely.
And mupdf backend for zathura seems faster than poppler. Or maybe it seems so.

Re: pdf and document reader

Reply #5 –
Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
I am looking for a PDF and Document reader that is NOT dependent of gfvs or udisk2


atril ?

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pacman -Si atril
Dépôt                    : galaxy
Nom                      : atril
Version                  : 1.28.1-1
Description              : A document viewer for MATE
Architecture             : x86_64
URL                      : https://mate-desktop.org
Licences                 : GPL-2.0-or-later
Groupes                  : mate-extra
Fournit                  : --
Dépend de                : djvulibre  libspectre  libgxps  mathjax2  gettext
                           poppler-glib  cairo>=1.14.0  webkit2gtk>=2.6.0
                           libsynctex  mate-desktop
Dépendances opt.         : caja: Document Properties extension
                           texlive-bin: DVI support
Est en conflit avec      : atril-gtk3
Remplace                 : atril-gtk3
Taille du téléchargement : 1508,98 KiB
Taille installée         : 15179,14 KiB
Paqueteur                : Thiago O Calsolari <marzosh@artixlinux.org>
Compilé le               : ven. 28 févr. 2025 22:18:30
Validé par               : Somme SHA-256  Signature

Re: pdf and document reader

Reply #6 –
Interestingly, Firefox's PDF viewer has a highlight and annotate feature, and the browser lists neither daemon as a dependency.

Re: pdf and document reader

Reply #7 –
Quote from: tintin – on
Quote from: mrbrklyn – on
I am looking for a PDF and Document reader that is NOT dependent of gfvs or udisk2


atril ?

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pacman -Si atril
Dépôt                    : galaxy
Nom                      : atril
Version                  : 1.28.1-1
Description              : A document viewer for MATE
Architecture             : x86_64
URL                      : https://mate-desktop.org
Licences                 : GPL-2.0-or-later
Groupes                  : mate-extra
Fournit                  : --
Dépend de                : djvulibre  libspectre  libgxps  mathjax2  gettext
                           poppler-glib  cairo>=1.14.0  webkit2gtk>=2.6.0
                           libsynctex  mate-desktop
Dépendances opt.         : caja: Document Properties extension
                           texlive-bin: DVI support
Est en conflit avec      : atril-gtk3
Remplace                 : atril-gtk3
Taille du téléchargement : 1508,98 KiB
Taille installée         : 15179,14 KiB
Paqueteur                : Thiago O Calsolari <marzosh@artixlinux.org>
Compilé le               : ven. 28 févr. 2025 22:18:30
Validé par               : Somme SHA-256  Signature


I think it depends on the mate desktop.

[sudo] password for ruben:
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (3) webkit2gtk-2.48.1-1  xdg-dbus-proxy-0.1.6-1  atril-1.28.1-1

Re: pdf and document reader

Reply #10 –
epdfview-git (from AUR) is pretty lightweight poppler based .. doesn't do much other than pdfs..

Re: pdf and document reader

Reply #11 –
Quote from: ncmprhnsbl – on
epdfview-git (from AUR) is pretty lightweight poppler based .. doesn't do much other than pdfs..

Minimalist, but works well ! 8)
It's also in chaotic-aur:

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yay epdfview
2 aur/epdfview-git 0.2.0.r28.g6f907bd-2 (+1 0.00) 
    Lightweight PDF document viewer
1 chaotic-aur/epdfview-git 0.2.0.r28.g6f907bd-2.3 (123.9 KiB 353.1 KiB) 
    Lightweight PDF document viewer

 
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