Have you tried gv?

Posted Nov 30, 2004 2:23 UTC (Tue) by rlb (subscriber, #9072)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers

I still find plain gv to be more useful than ggv. Though its controls aren't "standard", I find that having space and backspace page forward and backward, and having 'q' quit is quite convenient, and much quicker than the ggv equivalents.

(For Debian users -- apt-get install gv)

Have you tried gv?

Posted Nov 30, 2004 2:35 UTC (Tue) by Ross (guest, #4065) [Link]

That's what I use as well. I thought I had a "gv" alias for ghostview which
is how I discovered the command. It has worked reliably for me for years,
though some PDFs do give it indigestion and some scanned documents are
difficult to read due to the way it does bitmap scaling.

Is the searching function just not possible for programs using gs as a
backend? Does anyone know if there any plans to fix this shortcoming?