Okular perhaps
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Okular is the best I've found
you should try papers. it's a new app that'll replace evince as the default document viewer for gnome in a future version. it's still in development but i've been using it for a long time and it's really good.
Do you feel like it improves on evince in any way? I saw it a while back but it didn't look too different imo
i'm no expert but even though it looks like evince as far as i know is a completely different app build from the ground up
Papers forked from Evince.
For sure, that makes sense. I was just curious if you had noticed any added functionality
currently it is able to digitally sign pdfs, which evince can't do
I used to use the famous Zathura for a long time, but it's really minimal. Sioyek is an incredible pdf reader so overlooked.
Amongst a lot of other things, it lets you:
- quickly preview or jump to figures/references/equations/tables… (even if the PDF does not have links)
- search paper names in any search engine you like (defaults are google scholar and library genesis) by middle clicking on their name or using keybindings
- mark locations (using lower case for local mark and upper case for global mark) or create bookmarks for quick navigation
- highlight text
- save annotations in a local database or embed them in a new version of the PDF file to share them with others
- automatically reload a file when it changes
I wrote a brief overview of it quite some time ago.
Try Zathura! I've been loving it.
I should add that Zathura comes with a minimal graphical interface and you sort of need to learn the vi-like keyboard controls (or look them up with man zathura). But boy is it fast!
I feel like this is just a thing with PDF viewers that don't paginate their views properly. Try LibreOffice or Xournal as a test to see if they perform better. I never have a problem.
to open PDFs
mupdf
for selecting the text and stuff
This is what is slowing things down.