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What's your PDF viewer/editor software of choice?

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magic:
mupdf is a lightweight PDF viewer with unobtrusive UI and fairly sophisticated navigation features based on the vi editor. That means it involves getting used to a few keyboard shortcuts, but if you aren't already familiar with vi navigation you should probably seriously reconsider your priorities in life anyway :P

Not sure what you mean by highliting, but in mupdf it probably doesn't exist - you can only select a block of text (and that disappears when you go to a different page) and search results are highlighted.

One thing that I personally miss is an ability to display two pages side by side.

voltsandjolts:

--- Quote from: Refrigerator on November 26, 2021, 09:47:08 pm ---In Dave's recent jellybean video he used some kind of PDF viewer which looked pretty interesting, i wonder what it's called.

--- End quote ---

Haven't seen that video, but in others he has used DrawboardPDF which has a free version in the Windows Store.

TheBay:
I've used Acrobat reader for years, but with each update it is really starting to annoy me.
The latest nag on there now is when you click the rotate button it asks you to take out a subscription!
But yet you can right click and select rotate there. It does not make sense.

Following this thread for alternatives.

PlainName:
Long-time user of pdfXchange:

https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

The paid-for version is good value, but in its free guise it is still very good. My partner uses it for for editing and even created a set of markup stamps for it which are used by other professionals. We've tried other pfd tools but they all fall behind in some way - perhaps annotations aren't editable, or they don't show contents when dragging, of they used ribbons, etc.

Speaking of which, the thing I like about it is the perpetual license (getting to be uncommon now), and the ability to have a ribbon, menu, ribbon and menu, collapsible ribbon, hidden menus, you name it and the chances are the interface can be set accordingly.

NiHaoMike:
Okular.

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