Re: [orca-list] Recommendation of PDF reader

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Yeah, evince is not able to fill out pdf forms, and sadly, its backend, 
poplar doesn't realy cut it for a significant percentage of files I've 
fed it over the years, not sure if it is even improving or not honestly.

Use the ebook convert command to run calibre if evince/poplar do not 
give you clean .txt output.

Also, calibre can give you html output, hopefully in a way that you 
like. I do not know all the syntax and ins and outs of what can be done 
with the ebook convert command, but docs are converted to some kind of 
html before being written to the final output format one has chosen.

More than a few times a pdf that gave me something on the sloppy to 
garbled to the point of unusable spectrum with texttopdf script that 
uses poplar was perfect when I used calibre's ebook converter scripts.

There is extensive documentation online, not sure what comes when one 
installs the package on the distros I've used, better said I do not 
remember, but It has saved my life quite a few times.

Years ago adobe's acroread was usable if not fun to use, but last I 
tried I found it inaccessible.

There are also a couple of webapps in the cloud somewhere that can 
convert pdfs, most have a subscription model for full feature access 
and/or those who process larger quantities of pdfs.

Calibre is in standard repos for most distros I think,:




> I guess evince is what comes closest to somewhat accessible pdf reader.
>
> It does not have a lot of needed features but is just fine.
>
> Happy hacking.
>
> Krishnakant.
>
> On 17/02/19 8:34 PM, Christopher Chaltain via orca-list wrote:
> > Have you tried the Document Viewer that comes with your system? I'm 
> > not sure what you're running but on my Ubuntu 16.04 system with the 
> > Gnome desktop, I can just click on a PDF file in my file manager and 
> > the document viewer comes up. I need to hit F7 to enable carrot 
> > browsing mode. I'm not sure if it gives you everything you're looking 
> > for, but see if it doesn't meet your needs.
> >
> >
> > On 2/17/19 7:37 AM, Edhoari Setiyoso via orca-list wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > Can anyone recommend good PDF reader for linux?
> > > Or is there a good way to convert pdf to html docs?
> > >
> > > I've tried pdf2htmlex but the result is plain html that has no
> > > headings.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions is welcome.
> > >
> > > Best Regards
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