sioyek
Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers (by ahrm)
pdf-tools
Emacs support library for PDF files. (by vedang)
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
sioyek
Posts with mentions or reviews of sioyek.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.
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Google Scholar PDF Reader
Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed exactly for reading research papers and textbooks: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek.
- ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
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Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Sioyek: a PDF viewer optimized for reading research papers and textbooks. https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek
It has a lot of niche features, but my favorite is the ability to preview or jump to references even when they are not linked in the PDF file.
- Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
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SumatraPDF Reader
I implore all developers of PDF readers to implement sioyek's overview feature[0]. When you hover on a cross-referenced entry, it opens a little preview window with the contents of the reference. It is an absolute game-changer for reading textbooks and technical papers; I cannot overstate its utility.
[0] https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek#overview
- Vimtex: sioyek is not executable. Any idea how to solve this. I'm on wsl2 Ubuntu.
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Sioyek PDF Viewer on Asahi Linux
Has anyone been able to run the sioyek PDF viewer (https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek) on Asahi? I've tinkered around a little, but the max I've gotten to is a black window with the executable complaining about an inability to compile certain shaders. Would this be due to the current OpenGL in mesa-asahi-edge (and thus can't be solved until we get more recent OpenGL version support) or is there some way to finagle around this?
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PDF Viewer that Compiles LaTeX Notes?
Maybe chat to the dev of https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek about adding this as a feature. It's probably the closest pdf viewer I can think of that might do something like this in the future.
- What software would you like to see ported?
- Good PDF reader/annotation for research
pdf-tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of pdf-tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.
- Google Scholar PDF Reader
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Issue with pdf-tools on 3k display
Hi, I bought a galaxy book 3 ultra, which comes with a 2880x1800 display with 120hz. I am having a hard time to use github.com/vedang/pdf-tools with it. Sometimes it works fine, but most of the time the scrolling of pdfs gets really slow. If I change the resolution to 1920x1200 it gets back to normal and scrolls smothly. I tried running both on xorg and wayland and got the same result. Also, I tried running on a fresh emacs installation with the only package being pdf-tools, and the issue is still there. Does anybody experienced something similar? I am using emacs 27.1 on PopOS 22.04.
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- pdf-view-midnight-minor-mode not working properly after updating packages
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Integrate Zotero pdf notes with org roam
An alternative is to open PDFs, from Zotero or from anywhere else, with Emacs' pdf-tools (https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools). If you annotate the pdf, those annotations are part of the pdf. And you can also use org-noter (https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter) and org-noter-pdftools (https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools; but see https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools/issues/93#issuecomment-1493314118 if you use the new org-noter from https://github.com/org-noter/org-noter).
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PDF Viewer that Compiles LaTeX Notes?
Possibly: Org-noter and/or PDF Tools.
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PDF viewing should work out of the box?
You can install pdf-tools https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools
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Just started learning LaTeX. I have a few questions
If you want to avoid extra software from AUR, there's a plugin for Emacs called pdf-tools. Mind you will lose an option to forward/inverse search! AFAIK pdf-tools is supported in ArchLinux, so you could use already installed Emacs as a PDF viewer.
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how to run pdf-view by default (and not Docview)
Pdf-view let you annotate the document. See https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools for more features. There are also quiet a few packages that work with pdf-tools.
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Share your workflows for highlighting books - roam compatible epub reader with highlighting? nov.el / ereader
Under the hood everything uses pdftools -- you can do highlights and other annotations but they live in the original pdf.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sioyek and pdf-tools you can also consider the following projects:
zathura - Document viewer
pdf-continuous-scroll-mode.el - A pdf-tools extension that provides continuous scrolling functionality
zotero - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
sumatrapdf - SumatraPDF reader
dwim-shell-command - Emacs shell commands with DWIM behaviour
org-ref - org-mode modules for citations, cross-references, bibliographies in org-mode and useful bibtex tools to go with it.
homebrew-emacsmacport - Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager
libharu - libharu - free PDF library
qpdf.el - A transient Emacs wrapper for qpdf
clawPDF - Open Source Virtual (Network) Printer for Windows that allows you to create PDFs, OCR text, and print images, with advanced features usually available only in enterprise solutions.
pdf-tools - Emacs support library for PDF files.