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AlexC · Joined: 11 Sep 2011 Posts: 18

Hello,
Is there a PDF reader that allows underlining, highlighting, inserting notes, bookmarks, etc that runs fine in Puppy?

I’m used to Okular but I don´t find it in Puppy Package Manager ... maybe I need to add a new repository?

Thanks!

(I tried Foxit but: i was unable to make it the default reader; the application crashes when i open a PDF through "Open>File"; looking to the menus, this version of Foxit seems to be just a basic reader without any of the functions above)

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

If you have lupu you have access to the ubuntu repositories. There must be something in them that does what you want, eh?

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5162 Location: Finland

Here is good one. I dont know if it do anything what you wanted, but for my needs, this one has been enough.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

How about PDFescape browser extension?

http://www.pdfescape.com/

Flash · Posted: Sun 18 Sep 2011, 08:29 Post subject:

ocpaul20 · Posted: Tue 20 Sep 2011, 07:27 Post subject:

I have always used Foxit on the dreaded windows machine, and apparently there is a Linux version too now. Still have not got around to trying it though.

disciple · Posted: Tue 20 Sep 2011, 22:17 Post subject:

The Linux Foxitreader does a lot less. It is pretty similar to ePDFview. The Windows version has traditionally run well on Linux using wine... but you might be better off using Okular. What version of Puppy are you using?

AlexC · Joined: 11 Sep 2011 Posts: 18

Thanks for your replies! From the suggestions presented only Okular provides what i need... I was able to install, but not to run without problems. I´ll probably install Wine and PDF-XChange Viewer.

disciple · Posted: Wed 21 Sep 2011, 02:01 Post subject:

You might also want to check out Xournal (available on this forum, although I'm not sure if it is the latest) or the patch which adds annotation capability to xpdf http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/portsntools.html

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

This article, here, mentions editing pdfs using Inkscape & OpenOffice.

While I haven't tried Inkscape, I've had some success with OOffice, using the PDF import extension.

( I say some success because not all pdfs I've tried have saved properly)

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1531 Location: The Blue Marble

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

There's always pdfedit of course.