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(Spac)emacs with pdf-tools VS qpdfview

Compare (Spac)emacs with pdf-tools VS qpdfview and see what are their differences

(Spac)emacs with pdf-tools logo (Spac)emacs with pdf-tools

Spac(emacs) with pdf-tools has convenient default keyboard shortcuts (e.

qpdfview logo qpdfview

qpdfview is a Qt-based tabbed document viewer using the Poppler library for PDF rendering and CUPS...
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    2023-09-25

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to (Spac)emacs with pdf-tools and qpdfview)
PDF Editor
34 34%
66% 66
PDF Tools
30 30%
70% 70
PDF Readers And Editors
33 33%
67% 67
PDF
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, qpdfview seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

(Spac)emacs with pdf-tools mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of (Spac)emacs with pdf-tools yet. Tracking of (Spac)emacs with pdf-tools recommendations started around Mar 2021.

qpdfview mentions (3)

  • Qpdfview 0.5.0 Released
    Previous stable qpdfview 0.4.18 released in 2019. Development of O.5.x brings support for compiling with any Qt version (Qt4, Qt5 & Qt6).[0,1] [0] https://launchpad.net/qpdfview/+announcement/28501 [1] https://launchpad.net/qpdfview/+announcement/30745. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
  • Going from zathura to neovim
    You didn't say what OS you're using, but on linux the best of the poppler-based PDF viewers are probably qpdfview (lighter weight) and okular (heavier but more features), both of which have good synctex support as well. Source: over 1 year ago
  • What are your favorite PDF viewers/editors
    I've been happy with qpdfview as my PDF viewer for a couple of years now. I've customized it to have vi-like keybindings (j/k for instance) and it has others features like SyncTeX support and tabs that I want in a PDF viewer. The only thing lacking is support for playing media files, which comes in handy during presentations and such. I don't edit PDFs regularly, but when I do I just import it in Inkscape... Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing (Spac)emacs with pdf-tools and qpdfview, you can also consider the following products

MuPDF - MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer.

Okular - Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE.

Evince - Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats: PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS...

Atril - Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. Atril is a fork of Evince.

Sumatra PDF - Sumatra PDF is a slim PDF/DjVu/EPUB/XPS/CHM/CBR/CBZ/MOBI viewer for Windows.

Foxit Reader - Foxit Reader is a free and light-weight multi-platform PDF document viewer.