[opensuse] Command line pdf reader - zathura - vi like interface - pretty amazing!
All, This is one of those stray tips e-mail for anybody who spends time on the command line and every wanted a pretty amazing command line pdf reader. zathura is it, and it is a vi like interface that is pretty damn amazing. I stumbled across it looking into pdftohtml and somehow found a link to zathura. For opensuse it is in the X11 Utilities repo: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Utilities/ Just # zypper in zathura zathura-plugin-pdf-poppler zathura-plugin-ps for both the pdf and ps reader (you can also choose mupdf instead of poppler) The entire install is ~600K (not even 1M). pdf rendering is great. You can tweak the config by adding 'set' commands to ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc (none by default). I just added: set font "monospace normal 8" to drop the vi-style command line font from default 9 to 8pt. Full man pages provided with 'man zathurarc' for the config options. I don't pass along many stray tips, but after using Linux for so many years and never running across zathura before -- I'll be many are in the same boat. (also works fine over ssh with ssh -Y (or -X) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 18/09/2019 01.59, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
This is one of those stray tips e-mail for anybody who spends time on the command line and every wanted a pretty amazing command line pdf reader. zathura is it, and it is a vi like interface that is pretty damn amazing. I stumbled across it looking into pdftohtml and somehow found a link to zathura.
Stored in my notes now :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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