It's PDF support is based on the PDF.js project which is maintained by Mozilla itself and integrated in to Firefox out-of-the-box.įirefox comes pre-installed on Ubuntu 18.04, which makes it specially convenient.

acroread - Adobe Acrobat Reader, no longer supported for Linux by Adobe, seems to be no longer supported by Ubuntu.Īs of Ubuntu 18.04, Firefox 62 is, in my opinion, the best PDF viewer available on Linux.

kpdf - Extremely outdated (2008) PDF viewer based on xpdf, for KDE 3.

Free version allows editing text and objects, annotating, and filling forms. Master PDF Editor - View, create, modify, fill forms, sign, scan, OCR, annotate, split/insert/remove/rotate pages, add bookmarks. Paid versions can sign, OCR, split/merge/insert/remove/rotate pages, add watermarks/header/footer/bookmarks, edit, redact, compare, optimize, batch process etc. PDF Studio Viewer - free version can annotate, fill&save forms. īrowsers like Firefox and Chromium derivatives also have great support for PDF viewing and form filling, but no support for annotations or signatures.įoxit Reader - View, create, convert, annotate, print, collaborate, share, fill forms and sign. May be slow and have issues with printing. Requires many KDE prerequisites unless installed as Flatpak.

Okular - Multi-format document viewer (PDF, CHM, ePub, others). gv is an X front-end for the Ghostscript PostScript(TM) interpreter. Gv - an old lightweight pdf viewer with an old interface. Lightweight, but with outdated interface. Xpdf - 'Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses standard X fonts'. Doesn't remember the zoom factor, or the window size/position. Block selection by dragging with the left mouse button. Keyboard-navigation, bookmarks, auto-reload on changes. Zathura - extremely fast and minimalistic (uses the MuPDF ending via a plugin system). Can't annotate, fill forms, sign, or anything else. Block selection by dragging with the right mouse button, search with /. Qpdfview (see answer) - tabbed interface, can fill forms, remembers window size and document zoom. Can fill forms, highlight text, and annotate. Evince - the default document viewer on Gnome/Ubuntu, with support for PDF, PostScript, and a few other formats.

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