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| mwb1100:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on August 24, 2023, 10:00:24 pm ---Okular is available on Windows (I think I already gave a link before, but they've changed things around a bit.) https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Okular_Release_win64/lastStableBuild/artifact/ Works plenty fine on Windows. --- End quote --- Thanks for this pointer! Works great for me so far and it supports tabbed documents. For some reason I didn't think it did. I might have found a reason to move on from STDU. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: mwb1100 on August 26, 2023, 05:08:53 am --- --- Quote from: SiliconWizard on August 24, 2023, 10:00:24 pm ---Okular is available on Windows (I think I already gave a link before, but they've changed things around a bit.) https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Okular_Release_win64/lastStableBuild/artifact/ Works plenty fine on Windows. --- End quote --- Thanks for this pointer! Works great for me so far and it supports tabbed documents. For some reason I didn't think it did. --- End quote --- Yep, I knew Okular from Linux but only found out there was a working Windows build a few months ago. Before that I was mainly using PDF Xchange which was fine, but the more recent versions tended to be more and more bloated. Okular also supports digital signatures, annotations. And, it can automatically reload an open PDF that has changed on disk - something that many other viewers do not support. That's pretty great when you are working on a document and want to see the PDF output. For instance when using LaTeX. |
| Karel:
--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 26, 2023, 12:57:58 am ---I guess MediaInfo and Notepad++ I could also put on the "great software" list, but that's like putting bread on a list of great foods, its so simple it's hard to get it wrong. --- End quote --- Regarding Notepad++, I prefer Kate: https://kate-editor.org/ |
| mariush:
I'd rather have EPUB instead of pdf or djvu but I'm aware of the limitations and differences.. pdf is design with printing in mind, with page sizes and all that, epub has limited support for that, it's meant to re-flow, scale with display size, to read books on whatever screen you have ... EPUB is a simple zip file that contains xhtml and images and optional fonts and media. If you don't have a viewer, you can still open the zip and load the html file in a browser and read the text. but it's much easier to decode compared to djvu's arithmetic coding and odd image compression algorithms and pdf has so many extra things added. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 26, 2023, 12:57:58 am ---I guess MediaInfo and Notepad++ I could also put on the "great software" list, but that's like putting bread on a list of great foods, its so simple it's hard to get it wrong. --- End quote --- Huh? Have you seen notepad? You really think its hard to get something like that wrong? I know its from MS, where the key expertise is crappy software, but still. Most of the world's editors are extremely annoying. The scintilla editor behind notepad++ is pretty well thought out. |
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