Adobe Acrobat Reader is currently one of the good PDF readers available on the Linux platform.xpdf and Evince do their job well, but Acrobat's display seems to be better.
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I am used to the Vim editor and I want Vim navigation features (using h,j,k, and l to move around) in Adobe Reader. How do I do that?
I know Evince offers that kind of navigation.
Senthil KumaranSenthil Kumaran
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I have set
vim like navigation in Adobe Reader using AutoHotKey. You need to configure key mapping to be active only when Adobe Reader is the current active window so that this key binding does not affect other applications. The following modified AutoHotKey.ahk script does that
The
ahk_class name can be determined by running AutoIt3 Window Spy .
The only drawback is during
Search/Find operation in Adobe Reader. If your search text contains h/j/k/l it will be interpreted as arrow keys. You can overcome this limitation by suspending the autokey or by clicking Pause Script from the taskbar notification area.Better approach to overcome this limitation is using uppercase letters( HJKL ). Since adobe searches case insensitive, you search will cover hjkl letters too. for instance taKe matches with take
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As far as I know, this isn't possible. There is a project under way to create a pdf viewer that has a vim-like interface, but although the development seems to be quite active, it has a way to go yet. If that's of any interest, you can find it here (versions are available for Linux and Windows, although the development is focused on Windows):
Otherwise, I think you're stuck with evince or using the cursor keys.
Al.Al.
This AutoHotKey script I wrote supports hjkl, gg, G, C-e, C-y, C-f, and C-b, along with /, n, and N for searching. Pressing / takes you into search mode, and Esc, Enter, and Ctrl-[ will put you back in normal mode. If things aren't working like they should, try pressing Escape to get back into normal mode.
Please leave short bug reports or suggestions in the comments!
There are some known issues with holding down the Ctrl movement commands for long periods that have to do with AutoHotKey not being able to translate the input fast enough, but the non Ctrl movement commands shouldn't have this problem.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Linux or Mac OS X to be able to provide solutions for them as well. If anyone manages to port this to other operating systems, please either add your own answer or suggest an edit to this one with instructions. :)
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I'm not sure if that is possible.
But you should try Zathura, which works very well and tries to mimic vim - it even has a command line mode, triggered by
: .
mMontumMontu
In Linux, there is an alternative to AutoHotkey which is called
AutoKey , and here is my solution:
(I just made it under Ubuntu 14.04 with
AutoKey although it hasn't been updated for a long time)
Ref:
SmilingSunSmilingSun
Sounds like a job for IronAHK!
I know basic hotkey functionality like this works, but some of the more complex commands are not yet supported by IronAHK.
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Meh, this question is one year old, I'll give it a try nevertheless.
Slightly off topic, because I don't know how to do it in acroread, but you might want to try Apvlv:
'Apvlv is a PDF/DJVU/UMD Viewer Under Linux/WIN32 and its behaviour [is] like Vim.'
If you're willing to leave acroread, this pdf-reader will give you lots of vim-love.
Apvlv is based on libpoppler (same back-end as evince and now also xpdf), so you might encounter the same display issues that you mentioned. But it certainly fires up more quickly than acroread, which is the slowest in the industry! Good luck.
Disclaimer: I once wrote a piece of documentation for this project. https://newpar.weebly.com/blog/best-buy-cac-reader-for-mac.
SebastianSebastian
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Every second e-mail I get suggests to download Adobe Acrobat reader, but adobe.com doesn’t provide a Linux version.
Which PDF Viewer are there available for Ubuntu?
I’m fine with partial solutions, a perfect match however would not only display PDF files, but also be able to:
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Here are some well known PDF readers:
Note that most Linux PDF viewers don't provide the advanced capabilities of PDF.
In my opinion,
qpdfview is the best PDF viewer for Ubuntu. Some of its attractive features are:
qpdfview is available via a Launchpad ppa.
I'm going to mention some lesser-known options: MuPDF and Zathura.
These are not feature rich, but they are super-fast, lightweight, and keyboard-driven. It's hard to believe how fast MuPDF is.
Try okular. It's a KDE/Qt application, and it has some of the most awesome features of any reader.
Google Chrome can render PDFs, has a zoom feature, and you might already have it installed.
I have seen some PDFs that give evince trouble (large sections of the document will be blacked out), but Chrome displays them just fine.
Avchd reader for mac. Foxit is a free PDF document viewer for the Linux platform, with a new streamlined interface, user-customized toolbar, incredibly small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich features. This empowers PDF document users with Zoom function, Navigation function, Bookmarks, Thumbnails, Text Selection Tool, Snapshot, and Full Screen capabilities.
Nobody mentioned wine + PDF-XChange Viewer? This is a great solution if you want to annotate pdf files under Linux. Detailed discussion can be found here.
Firefox
As of Ubuntu 18.04, Firefox 62 is, in my opinion, the best PDF viewer available on Linux.
It's PDF support is based on the PDF.js project which is maintained by Mozilla itself and integrated in to Firefox out-of-the-box.
Firefox comes pre-installed on Ubuntu 18.04, which makes it specially convenient.
You can open a PDF simply as:
and it opens the PDF on a tab in the browser.
Or it will open by default if you click a PDF web link with Firefox.
Opening new documents on tabs is great, as it makes it easier to switch between multiple documents, given Ubuntu's clunky tab switching.
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Furthermore, as in most browsers, you can start writing the document name on the address bar to find it easily with auto-complete.
As a test case, test it out with the humongous 5k page Intel x86 manual:
I consider Firefox the best due to the unacceptable downsides of other viewers I've tried so far for reading technical documents:
Other more acceptable viewers with less important downsides:
PDF Studio Viewer is a free PDF reader for Linux. It's easy to install as it is packaged as a single file with no dependencies, etc.. It has advanced viewing options (pan and zoom, screenshot, rulers & grids, thumbnail tab, digital signature tabs, bookmark tab, layer tab), printing options (preview, booklet) and search options (search within fields, annotations, recursively into folders, etc.). It can annotate PDF documents with graphical, text and markup annotations. It can fill & save interactive forms.
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