Monday, February 09, 2009

Love fest continues - Okular is the Ferrari of pdf viewers

I am using KDE 4.1 on my OpenSUSE laptop. KDE 4.1 is great, really a nice environment. But the best is Okular.

Okular is a new package that uses libpoppler to replace kpdf. Yes, kpdf is left behind, and now we have Okular. Okular is a KDE 4+ pdf viewer. It is awesome. Okular renders *SO* *FAST*. It renders SO FAST. I can read the UNIX-Hater's Handbook, hit page-down for a few seconds, and then let off, and by the time my eyes focus, the damn page is rendered!!! WHoa! xpdf and ghostview are great but getting crufty, evince and kpdf are great, but Okular is the new hot thing and it is truly wonderful.

If you are a postscript/pdf lover but tired of how slow the old pdf viewers are, check it out. Beauty and speed baby. Okular is the Ferrari of pdf viewers.

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