ePDFView: A lightweight PDF viewer

I continue in my search for lightweight applications for Xfce or at least they do not depend on Gnome and its bookstores.

ePDF View it's a lightweight document viewer PDF which includes the basic options that this type of application needs. It may not be as efficient as Evincebut he knows how to do his job.

To install it on Debian we open a terminal and put:

$ sudo aptitude install epdfview

En Archlinux:

$ sudo pacman -S epdfview


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  1.   Oscar said

    When I installed Debian testing with XFCE, epdfview comes installed by default, it works great.

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      I did not know that. You mean the Debian Xfce iso right?

      1.    Oscar said

        Exactly.

      2.    Oscar said

        What happened, did you go back to Debian because of the AUR problems?

        1.    KZKG ^ Gaara <"Linux said

          It is that our ISP does not allow us to use the AUR ... it is not that the AUR have problems or are bad, but that we simply cannot use them 🙁

          1.    Oscar said

            And how do you manage without AUR, don't you need any packages from there?

            1.    KZKG ^ Gaara <"Linux said

              Nope ... 😀
              If I need an application that is not in the official Arch repos, under the .tar.gz and compile it myself, but for now it has only been one or two silly applications that I have needed 😉


        2.    elav <° Linux said

          Exact. And because Debian calls me .. it attracts me .. it is like the force of gravity ..

          1.    KZKG ^ Gaara <"Linux said

            Be careful with so much force and so much gravity do not end up stamped against something LOL !!!

  2.   Ozzar said

    I used it in Mandriva 2011 LXDE, and it worked very well, light and with just enough to read pdf. Very good, really.

  3.   hairo said

    LibreOffices or OpenOffices which one do you recommend?…. taking into account its compatibility with .docx because I have all my documents in offices 2010 and it is in my work that I am using LMDE

    1.    hypersayan_x said

      At the moment OpenOffice is slowed down until the Apache Foundation begins to get its hands on the code, therefore it would be better to use LibreOffice, but ... in general the support for Microsoft documents is still bad, you can read them but sometimes the documents have errors in the format, and if you try to save a document in docx directly it crashes and you end up losing your work. If you save it as doc it doesn't crash but it doesn't keep the format either: s
      My understanding is that Calligra recently added good docx support, I haven't tried it yet, but it's still in beta.
      And if not last, it passes all your documents from docx to odt, it is an extra work but at least you will not have more problems, and also if I am not mistaken the latest versions of microsoft office support OASIS formats so it should not have compatibility issues.

      1.    Carlos-Xfce said

        Hi. I use LibreOffice but I have to work with .doc documents with other people. I would like to know if you can help me. People who have Office 2007 installed, what should they install or configure so that they can open the .odt and edit it without any problem?

        1.    elav <° Linux said

          Well, the immediate solution would be for them to install LibreOffice on Windows. I don't know if there is any tool to open .odt in MS Office.

          1.    Carlos-Xfce said

            Thanks for your reply, Elav, as always. Well, you see, I am writing my thesis document and I want my readers to read it in a shared folder in Dropbox. They would make annotations that are shown in the margins. I had not thought about asking them to install LibreOffice, it seems like a good idea, although I do not know how these notes are made. Thank you.

  4.   hairosv said

    there is any tool in win. to convert the .docx to odt in bulk….?

  5.   Oscar said

    KZKG ^ Gaara, you can't use the repository [archlinuxfr] either, there for example is an application that elav is interested in Marlin.

    1.    KZKG ^ Gaara <"Linux said

      Apparently we can ... pass me the link hehehe
      Let's see if I can elav use Arch again JUAS JUAS JUAS !!!!

      1.    elav <° Linux said

        Hahahaha, let's not go .. !!!

        1.    Oscar said

          So there is something more than AUR? Hahaha.

      2.    Oscar said

        I give you the repository and you try to convince elav, if you can hahahahaha

        [archlinuxfr]
        # The French Arch Linux communities packages.
        server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch

        And this link is from all the repos:

        https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_User_Repositories

        Good luck, you will miss a lot ...

        1.    elav <° Linux said

          It will not convince me ¬¬

          1.    Oscar said

            The good son always comes home, hahahahaha.

        2.    KZKG ^ Gaara <"Linux said

          I did not know that repo, it has some good programs ... but unfortunately it is a small thing LOL

  6.   Leandro lemos said

    Hello, I would like to make an inquiry

    As a light pdf viewer we have ePDFView, as a light word processor we have Abiword, but does anyone know any slide viewer / editor (unfortunately better known by uindous as power points)?

    Thank you very much in advance!

  7.   jlcmux said

    It's good. I use it often.

  8.   Harry said

    How do I make my archlinux open by default the pdf with ePDFView, because when I open it, it opens with GIMP. thanks.

    1.    KZKG ^ Gaara said

      If you right-click and properties on a PDF document, you don't see an option to indicate with which program you want to always open those files?

  9.   harriroot said

    Thanks works excellent on arch