Lightweight, fast, minimalist.
PRO:
Evince supports different kinds of annotations now. All annotations start life as Highlights, and can then be customized through the "Annotation Properties" right-click menu.
CON:
Will invert colors for low-strain reading, but does not have a true Night/Dark mode. If the color of your annotations matters to you as a reader, inverting might annoy you.
OVERALL:
Great lightweight PDF/Comic book reader, especially if running Linux
COMPLAINTS:
No 'Dark mode' without distorting annotation colors
No 'Recent items' menu
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Evince is my default PDF reader, but still lacks annotations as you can notice by the comments above.
Still, it has great GTK+3.x theme integration, no bloat, and I can read both my big true-pdf files and .cbr comic books flawlessly.
My upvote.
Opening 40 PDF fiels with average size of 2M within a second? No problem!
Windows installation is not easily available.
It is a unix program which could be compiled for windows but go figure it yourself.
I still have an outdated (2.32.0) installer for windows saved on my webserver and download it whenever I am dealing with users at the grandma skill level. And while some might frown at it, I find things like its lack of support for javascript reassuring.
Reply written over 1 year ago
Lightweight, fast, minimalist.
PRO:
Evince supports different kinds of annotations now. All annotations start life as Highlights, and can then be customized through the "Annotation Properties" right-click menu.
CON:
Will invert colors for low-strain reading, but does not have a true Night/Dark mode. If the color of your annotations matters to you as a reader, inverting might annoy you.
OVERALL:
Great lightweight PDF/Comic book reader, especially if running Linux
COMPLAINTS:
No 'Dark mode' without distorting annotation colors
No 'Recent items' menu
• Edited about 2 months ago
Not so usable if you have to close and open common documents from the last place.
It won't remember zoom factor for document.
If won't remember position for document.
evince --version
GNOME Document Viewer 3.28.4
• Edited 2 months ago
It was awesome, till they went Gnome3 route and converted it into UGLY looking mess.
It doesn't really matter because you see documents most of the time.
Reply written 2 months ago
Since Foxit Reader became too bloated I tried other PDF readers and I found Evince and Sumatra very slim and fast.
BUT both have a problem with printing on my pc with Win XP:
Evince quits and crashes when I click print and Sumatra takes 1 minute to start printing one page!
So I switched to another alternative, PDF-XChange, which works very well and is small enough.
It's not a reader related problem but a Windows XP problem (compatibility with printing API)
/!\ Windows XP are deprecated now
Reply written over 3 years ago