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zathura

Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (Zlib)

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux  No pre-built binaries avaliable - only sources that require to become compiled
  • BSD
  • MacPorts
  • Homebrew
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Full-Text Search
  2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Keyboard Navigation
  6.  Vim Key Mapping
  7.  Vi keybindings

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zathura News & Activities

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Recent activities

  • PDF Guard icon
    GetPdf added zathura as alternative to PDF Guard
  • PDFx (by AlexandrosGounis) icon
    OrdinaryPerson added zathura as alternative to PDFx (by AlexandrosGounis)
  • DocInspector icon
    doc-inspector added zathura as alternative to DocInspector
  • PDFSimplified icon
    sanusihassan added zathura as alternative to PDFSimplified
  • tuva-hayabi reviewed zathura  

    «To build and install zathura using meson's ninja backend: meson build, cd build, ninja, ninja install.»

    Uh … no, I don't have the energy or the desire to deal with such a complicated installation when there are alternatives that are easy to install.

  • Fadocx icon
    POX added zathura as alternative to Fadocx
  • LEKTRA icon
    POX added zathura as alternative to LEKTRA
  • Pdf2Screen icon
    cuecongress added zathura as alternative to Pdf2Screen
  • Lokaltools icon
    mlogictech added zathura as alternative to Lokaltools
  • MorphPDF icon
    OperandOps added zathura as alternative to MorphPDF
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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
frogue
0

The vim keybindings feature is the best to have in a lightweight PDF viewer, although overusing it may cause it to crash

Top Negative Comment
tuva-hayabi
0

«To build and install zathura using meson's ninja backend: meson build, cd build, ninja, ninja install.»

Uh … no, I don't have the energy or the desire to deal with such a complicated installation when there are alternatives that are easy to install.

Rodney42
0

Minimal. No toolbars, just the document. Keyboard-driven. Vim-like shortcuts. Refreshes the document when the file changes (great for generating PDFs with LaTeX in a simple text editor).

dadoomer
0

Simple PDF viewer with vi keybindings.

dlnicolai
1

Superb keyboard shortcuts, really fast (especially with mupdf backend)

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What is zathura?

Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer based on the poppler rendering library and the gtk+ toolkit. The idea behind zathura is an application that provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction. Zathura uses a plugin based system for supported document types (PDF, PostScript, DjVu, CB) which makes it possible for you to choose which file formats you want your version of zathura to support.

Features

  • Buffered commands
  • Commandline completion
  • Configuration file
  • Highly customizable
  • Invertable colors
  • Markers
  • Mouse support
  • Notification system

Functionality

  • Automatic document refreshing
  • Automatic page offset detection
  • Bookmark pages
  • Export image and attachments
  • Hint feature to follow links
  • Map functions
  • Navigate, scroll, rotate, zoom
  • Open (encrypted) PDF documents
  • Print whole document or just specific sites
  • Search in the document
  • Show and browse document index
  • Show document information
  • tabbed support

zathura information

Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about zathura, and it has gotten 44 likes

zathura was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo Venom on and this page was last updated .