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zathura

 41 likes

Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • MacPorts
  • Homebrew
5 / 5 Avg rating (3)
41 likes
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  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  Full-Text Search
  5.  Vi keybindings
  6.  Keyboard Navigation
  7.  Vim Key Mapping

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zathura information

  • Developed by

    pwmt.org
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Zlib) and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    71 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about zathura, and it has gotten 41 likes

zathura was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo_Venom on Jul 14, 2010 and this page was last updated Jun 2, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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dlnicolai
  
Top positive commentAug 19, 2018

Superb keyboard shortcuts, really fast (especially with mupdf backend)

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Rodney42
  
Positive commentDec 17, 2019

Minimal. No toolbars, just the document. Keyboard-driven. Vim-like shortcuts. Refreshes the document when the file changes (great for generating PDFs with LaTeX in a simple text editor).

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dadoomer
  
Positive commentNov 30, 2019

Simple PDF viewer with vi keybindings.

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What is zathura?

Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer based on the poppler rendering library and the gtk+ toolkit. The idea behind zathura is an application that provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction. Zathura uses a plugin based system for supported document types (PDF, PostScript, DjVu, CB) which makes it possible for you to choose which file formats you want your version of zathura to support.

Features

  • Buffered commands
  • Commandline completion
  • Configuration file
  • Highly customizable
  • Invertable colors
  • Markers
  • Mouse support
  • Notification system

Functionality

  • Automatic document refreshing
  • Automatic page offset detection
  • Bookmark pages
  • Export image and attachments
  • Hint feature to follow links
  • Map functions
  • Navigate, scroll, rotate, zoom
  • Open (encrypted) PDF documents
  • Print whole document or just specific sites
  • Search in the document
  • Show and browse document index
  • Show document information
  • tabbed support

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