PDF love

[SamuraiMujuru]

I've switched to Moon+ Reader on my tablet and it's been a hell of a lot better at reading dense pdfs like Exalted and the By Night Studios LARP books. You can also change page quality in the app. Dropping it down to Medium has had almost no effect on visual quality and readability, but definitely helped increase load speeds.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyersoft.moonreader&hl=en

[Mister Lion]

I got some timely assistance, and it is split. I also let drive thru know, so rather than some barely computer literate battered old cop looking for help on a forum, maybe we could get handled officially.

Thank you everyone. I look into a new PDF reader, regardless. That is too bad, I liked Xodo.

[Fata-Ku]

Both on Linux and on Windows I swear by muPDF. It's blazing fast and has command-line functions for splitting a PDF:

mutool.exe convert Exalted_Third_Edition.pdf 1-10 -o new-pdf-title.pdf -F pdf

that creates a new pdf doc named new-pdf-title.pdf, containing pages 1 through 10. (-o for "output" -F for "format")
can also export as png and cbz.

The downside (for people who aren't me) is that there is no UI to speak of because all control happens through keyboard shortcuts, but I count that as a plus since I'm a long-time Vim user.

[BlueWinds]

Both on Linux and on Windows I swear by muPDF. It's blazing fast and has command-line functions for splitting a PDF:

mutool.exe convert Exalted_Third_Edition.pdf 1-10 -o new-pdf-title.pdf -F pdf

that creates a new pdf doc named new-pdf-title.pdf, containing pages 1 through 10. (-o for "output" -F for "format")
can also export as png and cbz.

The downside (for people who aren't me) is that there is no UI to speak of because all control happens through keyboard shortcuts, but I count that as a plus since I'm a long-time Vim user.

There is, in theory, a mu-pdf backend for Okular (my preferred pdf viewer), but I've never been able to get it to work.

I already use a gui-less video player (mplayer), so perhaps I should give muPDF another shot. Does it support bookmarks?

[Fata-Ku]

There is, in theory, a mu-pdf backend for Okular (my preferred pdf viewer), but I've never been able to get it to work.

I already use a gui-less video player (mplayer), so perhaps I should give muPDF another shot. Does it support bookmarks?

Unfortunately it doesn't support in-pdf bookmarks, though it does support links (such as Exalted's glossary and index). Peronally though, I find that the time it takes to navigate, say, Adobe's bookmarks bar is longer than flipping through with muPDF from a best-guess page number.

You can however set personal bookmarks, and its search function is also super fast.

(usage docs: https://mupdf.com/docs/manual )

[Fata-Ku]

Wait no! I'm wrong! The OpenGL version ("mupdf-gl") supports bookmarks! (bound to "o" for overview)
I just never use them.

(I use the non-gl version out of habit, which doesn't have bookmarks.)