I’m looking for a light weight pdf viewer, curious what others think. Thanks!
1.Okular
2.Evince
Anything else?
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I use okular but qpdfview is quite popular and lightweight.
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Thank you.
There is Atril Document Viewer that is included with Mate. Should work with most GTK DEs.
Pudge
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If you don’t want a Qt based reader: For basic PDF viewiving, Xreader is an excellent choice.
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Any good pdf software (free) available for splitting, merging and editing the pdf documents ?.
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xreader is like atril a fork of evince, but its for cinnamon 
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I use the pdf xchange viewer under wine.
pdfarranger has pretty good results for splitting and merging.
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I have tried several different PDF viewers over the years (and on various distros) but I always come back to evince. I personally find this viewer to be the most versatile and the most refined one.
Lawrence
The best software I have found for splitting and merging PDF files is PDFsam (add by entering yay -S pdfsam). This is a free program and it is excellent for what it does. The program offers editing but for that ability (a “premium” feature) you must pay.
There is a free PDF editing program called pdfedit-bin which I believe is free of charge though please note that I do not have it installed and I have never tried it (add by entering yay -S pdfedit-bin).
If I need to edit a PDF file (something I have had to do only VERY rarely over the years), I convert the PDF file to a document file (odt) by copying and pasting it into a LibreOffice Writer file and edit that; then I convert the edited odt file back to a PDF, again with LibreOffice. It’s a bit time-consuming (and somewhat cumbersome) but I have not had to do this very often. And that process qualifies as “free.”
I hope that this is of some help to you.
Lawrence
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I think Evince is good too.
What do you think about …
Masterpdf.
I like it…but…
masterpdf 4 is free but is no longer being updated and since pdf is a pretty common attack vector that makes me a bit uncomfortable.
masterpdf 5 is still getting updates but you need to pay for it.
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yeah thats true
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My vote goes to llpp because it is extremely fast on complex PDF files compared to any other mentioned above.
Recently I tested many PDF viewers, and llpp was by far the fastest.
It uses opengl for acceleration.
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Complex here means the file contains graphically complex pictures. At least those I just tested.
whats maion difference with mupdf?
mupdf was good too, but graphics was quite slow. But mupdf seems to have an opengl version too, mupdf-gl.
Note that I tested only upstream packages, and nothing from AUR.
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ah ok, basicly only like from pdf readers that can copy & past…
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