10-14-2008
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I tried Chrome and uninstalled it after one day. I thought it was the worst browser I had ever used, like a giant step-backwards in browser development. "Simple" is not what I need in a broswer. I need "highly functional" "fun to use" "extensible" and "mature".
In fact, I was going to add Google Chrome as an option in the poll, but it was so bad, I thought we would get only one or two "novelty" votes and this was the only one.
Well, I think you should have given it more of a chance.
Remember it is only the first public beta.
I'm very impressed with it, love the minimal interface and the speed. I think the layout makes a lot more sense with the address bar being on the tab (where it belongs, logically). Despite being minimal, it has nearly everything I need in a browser. I use it 99% of the time on my work PC, but have stuck with FF3 at home for some variety. I like the default home page with the automatically maintained thumbnails of my most recently visited sites. I like the way when you search a very long page it highlights the parts of the scrollbar where matches are found on the page. The inspector is interesting, as is the internal task/resource manager. I like being able to drag tabs off the tab bar to create a new window, and then back on to it again. I like being able to resize text entry fields like the one I'm typing in now. I like the way form fields glow when they are focussed, and the way status bars and 'find' dialogs occupy minimal space and go away when they're no longer needed.
The only things I miss are some little things, like right-clicking on a page or image and choosing properties does not display it's size in bytes (can't find that anywhere!). And sometimes when you hit the back button when browsing a web page with frames it doesn't go back within the frame, but back in the outer context... but I suspect that bug will be squashed soon enough.
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QPDFVIEW(1) General Commands Manual QPDFVIEW(1)
NAME
qpdfview - tabbed PDF viewer
SYNOPSIS
qpdfview [options] [file(s)[#page[#top]]]
DESCRIPTION
qpdfview is a simple document viewer for PDF documents. It uses the poppler library for rendering.
OPTIONS
--unique
If an instance of qpdfview is started with this option, any files that are opened using this option afterwards, are opened as tabs
in this same window. If a file is already opened in a tab of the respective window, it is merely reloaded using this option.
[file(s)[#page[#top]]]
Specifies the files to open when qpdfview starts. If this is not specified, qpdfview will open a blank window. Multiple files can be
loaded in separate tabs if the file names are separated by spaces. The optional parameter #page opens the file at the given page.
The optional parameter #top can take values between 0 and 1 and opens the page with the given position aligned to the top of the
tab. (See examples.)
CONFIGURATION FILE
qpdfview uses a configuration file usually located at
"~/.config/qpdfview/qpdfview.conf",
which allows configuration of the toolbars and thumbnails.
The keys "fileToolBar", "editToolBar" and "viewToolBar" are added to the section "mainWindow". Their values are comma-separated lists. The
default (available) entries are:
fileToolBar: openInNewTab, refresh (open, saveCopy, print)
editToolBar: currentPage, numberOfPages, previousPage, nextPage (firstPage, lastPage, jumpToPage, search)
viewToolBar: scaleFactor, zoomIn, zoomOut (onePage, twoPages, oneColumn, twoColumns, fitToPage, fitToPageWidth, doNotScale,
rotateLeft, rotateRight, fullscreen, presentation)
The order of the items in the list defines the order of the items in the toolbar. (See examples.)
Setting the keys "thumbnailWidth" and "thumbnailHeight" in the section "documentView" specifies the size of the thumbnails.
The icon theme used by Qt can be overridden by setting the key "iconTheme" in the section "mainWindow".
EXAMPLES
The command
qpdfview foo.pdf#3#0.5 bar.pdf
opens foo.pdf in the first tab with the middle of page 3 aligned to the top of the tab and bar.pdf in the second tab at the begin-
ning of the document.
Subsequent execution of the following commands
qpdfview --unique foo.pdf bar.pdf
qpdfview --unique foo.pdf#5
opens foo.pdf and bar.pdf, then reloads foo.pdf and displays its page 5.
Subsequent execution of the following commands
qpdfview --unique foo.pdf
qpdfview bar.pdf
qpdfview --unique foo1.pdf bar1.pdf
opens foo.pdf in the first window, bar.pdf in a second window and then foo1.pdf and bar1.pdf in additional tabs in the first window.
Adding the lines
fileToolBar=openInNewTab, refresh, saveCopy, print
editToolBar=firstPage, previousPage, currentPage, numberOfPages, nextPage, lastPage, search
viewToolBar=zoomOut, scaleFactor, zoomIn, oneColumn, twoColumns, rotateLeft, rotateRight
in section "mainWindow" of the configuration file leads to the corresponding items being displayed in the given order in the tool-
bars.
BUGS
If you find a bug, please report it at https://launchpad.net/qpdfview.
AUTHOR
Benjamin Eltzner <b.eltzner@gmx.de>
March 2012 QPDFVIEW(1)