So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?

[Neal Becker]

Kevin Martin wrote:

> Master PDF editor is quite nice but, strangely, when it comes to filling in
> PDF forms evince works better I've found.  However if you need to actually
> fill in a PDF that doesn't have form fields master PDF editor is the way to
> go.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kevin Martin
> 
> Sent from my Tab Pro running Kitkat!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net>
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 8:58 PM
> Subject: Re: So acrobat is dead for linux - long live evince?
> 
> On 12/15/2014 09:47 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:15:50 -0500
>> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What are people doing for pdf reading native on Fedora other than
>>> evince (F20 is 3.10, F21 is 3.14)?
>>
>> Being a happy KDE user, I like okular.
>>
>> And I use it not just for pdf, but a whole assortment of other document
>> formats like dvi, djvu, ps, epub, and so on.
>>
>> That said, I never needed to fill any forms and such stuff into a pdf
>> file, so I wouldn't know of any okular's advanced capabilities beyond
>> actually displaying the file.
>>
>> HTH, :-)
>> Marko
>>
> If you don't mind going beyond the repos, look for Master PDF Editor.
> It comes in rpm format, so you should be able to install it. I think
> it beats h*** out of all the Linux FOSS pdf programs. Try it and see!
> 
> doug

MasterPdfEditor is horribly slow to display my pdfs, which contain matplotlib 
pdfs with thousands of data points.  evince is very fast at this.

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