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#1

In my search for a cross platform (Linux/Windows) and preferably GPL/free pdf reader. I found that Draw does very well.

1) I would like an easy/easier way to move page to page in Draw.

2) Is there a way to do this?

3) Is there a smaller, faster loading, stand alone solution?

    -- David Teague

#2

If you really only want a light/fast PDF *reader* than for Linux try Evince
and for Windows try Sumatra.

If you want some basic PDF tools (not a full PDF editor) than for Linux try
PDFshuffler and for Windows try PDFTK Builder for which you can find a link
on this page: http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/.

#3

DavidBTeagueAt Comporium.net wrote

In my search for a cross platform (Linux/Windows) and preferably
GPL/free pdf reader. I found that Draw does very well.

1) I would like an easy/easier way to move page to page in Draw.

2) Is there a way to do this?

Draw is a component of the full LibreOffice suite, and is not intended to
be installed individually--although some Linux distros attempt to do that.

Draw is not a PDF editor or reader. It will perform a filter driven import
of PDF as pages in a ODF Draw document converting content of the PDF to Draw
objects. Some PDF features implemented by Adobe are simply not implemented.

On export from Draw, or Writer or Impress or Math--filters are again used to
render the content back into PDF--mostly compliant with PDF 1.5 spec with
some additional options.

Once imported into LibreOffice (default is Draw, but filter import to Writer
and Impress is also supported), focus in the "Pages" frame allows movment
between pages with PgDn and PgUp keys.

YMMV -- and please accept this is the way LibreOffice (ApacheOpen Office
and OpenOffice before) interact with PDF.

So if you can live with that, enjoy!

Stuart

#4

I find Master pdf Editor to be a useful tool. It is free form non
-commercial use. It can be a wee bit slow on my Linux openSUSE Leap
42.1 but has many features that you may have seen in Adobe Pro, and is
also available for Windows. See
https://code-industry.net/masterpdfeditor.
Cheers
Harvey

#5

Thank you Harvey, Stuart, and Bruce for useful information and suggestions.
I am a long time user of OO.org & LO, from the time of Star Office before Sun. I am not a "power user" though I am a long time user.
I will investigate the pdf packages suggested.
With warmest regard
David

#6

David -

Evince, mentioned by Bruce, also works under Windows.

- Robert

#7

Robert,
Thanks for that comment on Evince for Windows. It's "lighter" as in less
cluttered than Sumatra and includes a useful Annotations feature.