Hello, any recommendations for a libre PDF with support for dual page (with the option to adjust which 2 pages are displayed)? Normally I use MuPDF, but there’s a document I would like to read which would greatly benefit from some additional features…

    • SentientFishbowl@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      Okay, after trying a few different options out I think we have a winner :) Firefox suits my needs the best, thanks for the suggestion

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      5·
      5 months ago

      Firefox honestly got many really good editing features, to fulfill the needs of many people.

      Stuff that PDFArranger and maybe Okular do is missing.

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    41·
    5 months ago

    I came here to say Zathura (I’ve been actively using it for the last few days going through K&R C for university) but I see everyone else is saying it too. The “d” key will give you dual pane mode iirc. And what I also do is I use “s” to make the pdf match the window width rather than height and then use Capital H and L to read the top and bottom of the pages, and Capital J and K to go to the next 2 pages.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    41·
    5 months ago

    Zathura, which is a lot like MuPDF. Press d to toggle the dual page view.

    Edit: My bad, just read the part where you said “the option to adjust which 2 pages are displayed”. The dual page view in Zathura will show 2 adjacent pages. When I’ve needed to do that I’ve just opened two Zathura windows. Especially with a tiling WM it’s practically the same feature.

    • SentientFishbowl@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      My use case is a pdf of a book which is meant to be read across two pages - wouldn’t work if it’s displaying pages 1 and 2 together instead of pages 2 and 3, if you see what I’m saying. Does Zathura allow for that?

      • communism@lemmy.ml
        4·
        5 months ago

        Zathura always displays odd pages on the right and even pages on the left. Which is how books are conventionally displayed, ie page 1 is typically recto. I don’t think this behaviour can be configured, but if you need pages 2 and 3 displayed together then your book would display correctly in Zathura dual page mode. But if you needed 1 and 2 displayed together I don’t think Zathura can do that unfortunately

  • maxprime@lemmy.ml
    21·
    5 months ago

    Zathura, although it can be a little challenging to navigate on your first few goes.