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Iguleder

Here's the best PDF viewer I've ever seen: Zathura.

Very minimalistic, very very very lightweight and awesome for small screens.

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1447 Location: Ukraine

Dear Iguleder,

Many thanks for this little gem. It actually works nicely, but you have to know the keystrokes, which might not be obvious. To that end, here is a little pdf file made from the man page. The main thing to remember are the keys "a" and "s" (zoom to fit and zoom to fit respectively).

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. It compiles nearly instantly with a simple make file.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 08 Jul 2011, 10:08 Post subject:

sounds like someone should take this on as a project and add a simple gui with zoom/print screen, file open dialog, next and previous page and that's about it Smile

ttuuxxx

L18L · Posted: Tue 12 Jul 2011, 13:42 Post subject: Zathura PDF viewer

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 12 Jul 2011, 15:22 Post subject: Re: Zathura PDF viewer

L18L

L18L · Last edited by L18L on Sun 17 Jul 2011, 08:29; edited 3 times in total

simplePDFreader
download to /root/my-applications/bin
dependency: yad (pet-packages-common: yad and yad-nls)

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 917

L18L,

That's a good start for a Zathura PDF viewer gui.

There are a few items that you might want to add.

If you use this following form of directory selection, you won't need two dialogs, be able to go to any directory and, additionally, you'll get a *.pdf filter.

L18L

seaside,

thank you for your comment
on-top does not work
fontname does not work -> it is used for preselecting a font in fontselect

Thanks for explaining the filter thing

But I want 2 dialogs:

Starting the script with a file, after closing zathura you get a list of pdf files to choose from
because I think this is the intuitive way to continue.
Another choice is using the find button and here see only directories.
The default is now /usr/share/examples where there are pdf´s.

Starting without a file, all pdf´s under $HOME are listed.

I am going to overwrite the above script now. go-up button added.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4989 Location: Ontario

I put Zathura in Right-click-4.9.7
for Lucid Puppyand Wary

To remind people of the key shortcuts I put
'a' and 's' in the right click menu

For more info
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67013

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 917

L18L · Last edited by L18L on Sun 17 Jul 2011, 08:55; edited 1 time in total

seaside,
thank you. It is very good making this script workable in yad 0.9, too Very Happy

I have been overwriting the script (see 5 posts above) now,
added a help button
which launches vovchik´s zathura.pdf
if available anywhere on the system.

vovchik,
where did you get the man page from?
(I think the help button should point to the man page directly)

Thanks for testing and feedback
l

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1447 Location: Ukraine

Dear L18L,

I got the manpage from the tarball and made my own pdf Smile

The archived manpage is attached. The tarball is here: https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/.

With kind regards,
vovchik

L18L · Posted: Sun 17 Jul 2011, 09:20 Post subject: zathura manual

Dear vovchik,

thank you very much making me RTFM (read the Fine manual) Smile

Moved zathura.1.gz to /usr/share/man/1 and

keniv · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 490 Location: Scotland

Hi L18L

I cannot get your gui script to work on 525. I am not sure I am doing the right thing. This is what I have done. I copied your script to a new file in my-applications/bin. I made this file executable. When I click on this file I get a small box With "simple pdf read" and a cancel and ok box. This box does nothing and cannot be closed or killed. To get rid of it I have to restart X. I am using the version of yad in your link. Bellow is the output when I run the script in a terminal then press the ok button on the box that appears.

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