A more complete PDF reader for Puppy Linux?

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AlexC
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A more complete PDF reader for Puppy Linux?

#1 Post by AlexC »

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)

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#2 Post by PaulBx1 »

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

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#3 Post by pemasu »

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

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#4 Post by muggins »

How about PDFescape browser extension?

http://www.pdfescape.com/

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#5 Post by Flash »

muggins wrote:How about PDFescape browser extension?

http://www.pdfescape.com/
PDFescape Requirements:
  • * A Web Browser with JavaScript Enabled
    * Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, & Opera Compatible
    Firefox 2+ | Safari 2+ | Chrome | Opera 9.5+

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#6 Post by ocpaul20 »

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.

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#7 Post by disciple »

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?
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here

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#8 Post by AlexC »

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.

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#9 Post by disciple »

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
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here

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#10 Post by muggins »

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)

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#11 Post by jamesbond »

muggins wrote:How about PDFescape browser extension?

http://www.pdfescape.com/
While I applaud that pdfescape does, I don't want to be sending every PDF I read to pdfescape.com :D
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#12 Post by muggins »

There's always pdfedit of course.

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#13 Post by joaomcteixeira »

Hi there,

I tried the evince*.pet posted in Precise 5.7.1 and is not working,

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# evince Bulletin_6040A.pdf 

(evince:25868): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: /usr/lib/evince/2/backends/libpdfdocument.so: undefined symbol: poppler_page_get_thumbnail_pixbuf

(evince:25868): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: Cannot load backend 'pdfdocument' since file '/usr/lib/evince/2/backends/libpdfdocument.so' cannot be read.

(evince:25868): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: /usr/lib/evince/2/backends/libpdfdocument.so: undefined symbol: poppler_page_get_thumbnail_pixbuf

(evince:25868): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: Cannot load backend 'pdfdocument' since file '/usr/lib/evince/2/backends/libpdfdocument.so' cannot be read.

** (evince:25868): WARNING **: Setting attribute metadata::evince::sidebar_visibility not supported
# 
The library is there but it can't read it... :-( any clues?

All the best guys!

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#14 Post by watchdog »

I use Master PDF Editor:

http://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor.php

It needs qt4 libraries:

http://smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages ... t-dpup.pet

(tested in wary)

or:

http://www.4shared.com/file/Fs1zcssq/qt-471.html

(tested in wary, puppy 4 series and recent puppies)

or:

http://smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages ... -4.8.2.sfs

(only in recent puppies).

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Evince - missing libs link

#15 Post by ozsouth »

If you guys are still interested, this link may help:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=93224

Papy

evince-2.32.0-i486.pet

#16 Post by Papy »

evince-2.32.0-i486.pet
https://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Saluki_Pets
Activated in Saluki 013.

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#17 Post by nishant »

pemasu wrote:Here is good one. I dont know if it do anything what you wanted, but for my needs, this one has been enough.
The download link is broken while downloading , it said an error occurs.

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#18 Post by musher0 »

nishant wrote:
pemasu wrote:Here is good one. I dont know if it do anything what you wanted, but for my needs, this one has been enough.
The download link is broken while downloading , it said an error occurs.
Hi, nishant.

I don't know if these similar threads will provide you with the answer that
you are looking for, but they contain pretty recent posts:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 76&t=98720

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 76&t=85777

Bye for now.

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hamoudoudou

peasypdf is not easy to use !

#19 Post by hamoudoudou »

seamonkey addon 1-click document view has opened the pdf in the browser.. peasypdf is not easy to use !
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Re: peasypdf is not easy to use !

#20 Post by rcrsn51 »

hamoudoudou wrote:. peasypdf is not easy to use !
???????????

PeasyPDF is not a PDF document reader. It just suggests mupdf as a light-weight viewer with a keyboard interface.

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