zathura VS sioyek

zathura

Basically, you add vimtex as a plugin to vim, you configure it in your .vimrc file and specify things like which PDF viewer you want to use to view the output. In both the blog post and the github repo they use the PDF viewer zathura.

I am a huge fan of zathura pdf reader, I love it. I am wondering if there is a way to convert Linux terminal applications like zathura to be used in windows. Kind of like how wine works, where it doesn't emulate, but rather converts a file to be able to run on a different os. I have seen wine being used to run windows applications on Linux but never the other way around. Is there anyway for that?

OS: Arch Linux WM: Bspwm Compositor: Picom Launcher/Powermenu: Rofi Status Bar: Polybar Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Editor: Neovim Notification: Dunst File Manager: Lf PDF Viewer: Zathura Text fonts: JetBrains Mono Nerd Font DOTFILES: here

You can use pdftotext to convert a pdf to text and then read that in vim. However it would probably be easier to just use a pdf reader that supports keyboard bindings, like zathura.

Check it out here Check out it's keybindings here

Thank you so much u/lervag, I love this product and use it daily. This and zathura and pandoc-preview.

You might want to ask this of the devs... https://github.com/pwmt/zathura

A quick look at the source code confirms this. All pages are placed in a GtkGrid, created with the below code, enforcing equal row and column heights.

Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed exactly for reading research papers and textbooks: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek.

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.

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

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?

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.