If someone knows how to disable this fuckery, please tell me or i have to install adobe acrobat, it makes me crazy as it floats on all the open PDFs, covering text/content
If someone knows how to disable this fuckery, please tell me or i have to install adobe acrobat, it makes me crazy as it floats on all the open PDFs, covering text/content
It seems like you are using Windows. I think SumatraPDF is still good on Windows.
Is Okular OK?
Okular is fantastic
SumatraPDF only works on Windows out of the box (maybe it works well in Wine?). It’s one of those programs you’d expect to be on Linux but it just isn’t. It’s written entirely for the Win32 GUI API and there’s no way you’re going to be able to port it without either embedding Wine’s GUI wrappers or rewriting every single line of GUI code.
I like the Linux alternatives plenty, but SumatraPDF is one of those programs that are hard to replace if you want all features you’re used to.
May I ask what features do you miss from Sumatra? I find it so slim with barely any.
Performance with huge PDFs is one aspect where I find many Linux tools lacking. Some rather unfortunately packaged comics (huge high res image files inside a PDF) just don’t seem to work as fast.
There’s also format support; I haven’t found any Linux tool that’ll reliably open a Windows .CHM files. More common formats like ePub work in Calibre and some PDF viewers, but I usually end up with Calibre, but I have other issues with that (mostly the complicated UI design).
Sumatra just perfectly scratches that “fast, minimal, but with all the features I need” itch.
We have great lightweight alternatives on Linux, I liked it but no need to miss it.