I love mupdf, because of how simple it is and how fast it loads pdfs, but it doesn't support having 2 pages open side by side.
Is there any pdf viewer that is:
* available on linux
* loads really fast
* doesn't have huge chunks of gui (preferrably none)
* and supports 2 pages side by side?
(boosts ok)
@zac I just tried it, and I think it's ok - I'm still more comfy with mupdf's UI, though
@lizardsquid I understand! those are the only two I know of off hand :/
@lizardsquid "xpdf" ...I think. It will definitely will give you that light GUI feel at least, but I can't remember if it does two pages or not. I usually use qpdfview or evince.
@lizardsquid zathura is 100% what you are looking for
@praxis zathura seems really good, but I can't get the dual page mode to fit to my window size, it seems like it's always slightly too zoomed in or slightly too zomed out
@lizardsquid i'm 100% sure there's some kinda vi-like : command to fix that but i have no idea what it is lol
@praxis (also the dual page layout is offset by 1 page, which is bad for the particular pdf I want to read at the moment which has a 2 page diagram - in other readers, it displays as a diagram properly, but in zathura it's spread across a pagebreak)
@lizardsquid i actually know that command for the same reason, it's :set first-page-column 1:1
@praxis thankyou!
also in the process of trying to figure this out, I somehow put a huge gap between the pages when in dual page view, any idea on how to fix this? it stays across re-launches
@lizardsquid i don't know that either! if all else fails just delete zathurarc in .config i guess lol
@praxis it doesn't exist ;;
@lizardsquid should be in ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc i think?
@praxis it isn't there at all - but weirdly all the settings I change are staying between launches
@lizardsquid hm, could be /etc/zathurarc but that might not be fun to delete :S what distro are you using?
@praxis I'm using NixOS, so all my system files are read-only, so it can't be modifying those
@praxis sorry for dumping these tech support questions on you – I have used zathura in the past and liked it, so I think I'll try and stick with it, but these issues are baffling
@lizardsquid haha it's cool, wish i could be more helpful!
@praxis correction: they're staying the same for this one particular pdf, but not for others
@lizardsquid I'm also throwing in my support for Zathura 😊
@lizardsquid I know xPDF (usually in some xutility package) is good! it's pretty fast and does side-by-side
it has a gui, but it's not *too* bad.
there's also evince, but it's GTK3 and a bit heavier