2014-03-03



My main pdf viewer is xpdf. I don't think it's a good program.  I
think  it  fails  in  several aspects. But it is available nearly
everywhere and it is small. At least I haven't found a pdf viewer
with enough advantages to convince me.

One of the annoyances of xpdf had been that I couldn't  use  hjkl
for  scrolling.  Now  I  can.  I  needed to add four lines in the
~/.xpdfrc:

     bind h any scrollLeft(50)
     bind j any scrollDown(50)
     bind k any scrollUp(50)
     bind l any scrollRight(50)

I love it when config files have their own manpages,  like  here:
xpdfrc(5). Oh, manpages are such a great information concept.

In the same go, I added three key bindings more:

     bind t any toggleOutline
     bind . any rotateCW
     bind , any rotateCCW

Although I could bind some more commands, they  would  not  solve
xpdf's main problems. These are IMO: searching text, zooming, the
performance with large pdf files, and that  the  focus  stays  in
areas like the page number input field.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>