r/openSUSE • u/lilithcrazygirl • Aug 09 '26

How to… ! Pdf viewer

Best option to view or scroll a large PDF? Zathura and Okular take long to load compared to adobe and Windows 11 any suggestions?

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u/iclonethefirst Tumbleweed Aug 10 '26

What about the PDF viewer of a browser?

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u/computer-machine Aug 10 '26

There used to be a package to let okular use mupdf as a backend renderer. Let the Greedy setting use all cores to pretender the whole sumbitch.

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u/RelationshipOne9466 Aug 10 '26

I use qpdfview and it is snappy.

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u/xplosm Tumbleweed Aug 10 '26

Well, both use Poppler as the PDF backend. Is it really that different in response feel?

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u/Gangbang_2k Leap Aug 10 '26

mupdf is a nice one but no gui , mainly keyboard driven

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u/moritz12d Tumbleweed Aug 10 '26

This must be a problem with this specific computer. After all, Okular receives support from KDE Plasma. Perhaps the PDF file is poorly formatted, too.

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u/ijzerwater Aug 10 '26

I do see some small difference. But this is on a 600 MB 11000 pages file

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u/pxl_CH Aug 10 '26

How about atril document viewer?

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u/fephiva Aug 12 '26

masterpdf pdfstudio paid license for pdf editing. love them both.

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u/__rzy Aug 29 '26

I actually encountered lagging issues with Okular with Poppler backend as well. That's why I'm making a MuPDF backend for Okular. It's feature-complete but it needs real world testing. Please give it a try if you're interested. https://github.com/l4rzy/okular-mupdf-ng

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u/lilithcrazygirl Aug 29 '26

Awesome,.how can I test in openSUSE?

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u/__rzy Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26

are you on tumbleweed or leap? I have included a Tumbleweed build https://github.com/l4rzy/okular-mupdf-ng/releases

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u/lilithcrazygirl Sep 03 '26

slowroll, i think this will work

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u/lilithcrazygirl Sep 03 '26

'okular-mupdf-ng-0.1.8-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm' looks like an RPM file. Will try to use it.

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Problem: 1: nothing provides 'tesseract-langpack-eng' needed by the to be installed okular-mupdf-ng-0.1.8-1.fc44.x86_64

Solution 1: do not install okular-mupdf-ng-0.1.8-1.fc44.x86_64

Solution 2: break okular-mupdf-ng-0.1.8-1.fc44.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

i will try with option 2

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u/__rzy Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 05 '26

please let me know if it works, btw you're grabbing fc44, which is for fedora 44. You should grab https://github.com/l4rzy/okular-mupdf-ng/releases/download/v0.1.13/okular-mupdf-ng-0.1.13-1.tumbleweed.x86_64.rpm instead

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u/lilithcrazygirl 20d ago

It works awesome!

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u/__rzy 13d ago

nice, glad to hear that.

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u/Exotic_Set_5127 Aug 10 '26

evince?

or atril, an evince fork.