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Okular

Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Created by The Okular developers

Free Open Source
Mac
Linux
BSD

Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc.

Okular combines the excellent functionalities with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others.

Okular is a Free Software PDF reader.

Links to official Okular sites

Official Website GitHub

Features

Chapter cursor PDF annotation Fill PDF Forms Tabbed interface Text Highlighting Trim margins Add a feature

Categories

News & Books Office & Productivity

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chapter-cursor chm djvu djvu-viewer document-viewer epub epub-reader kde odf pdf pdf-annotation pdf-form-filler pdf-reader postscript ps-viewer tabbed-interface text-highlighting tiff tiff-viewer trim-margins xps

Okular was added by gyorgyjano in Apr 2009 and the latest update was made in Aug 2018. The list of alternatives was updated May 2018 There is a history of all activites on Okular in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Okular or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

For Windows, Mac or Linux

For 14 document formats

TIFF / Fax Backend

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Okular Comments

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Comment by pschwede

about Okular · Mar 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

You can left-click the document and drag it indefinitely up and down. You won't hit the screen-border and start grabbing it on top again. That enables quick navigation. I don't know any other reader that is able to do this. On top, Okular supports note-taking, drawing and highlighting.

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