PDFview Chromium PDF viewer

Yesterday I was experiencing Evince PDF viewer crashing when tried to print. Hmmm... EasyOS is currently using an old gtk2 version of Evince, because I prefer the UI to the latest.

Have changed to the latest Evince, in the Devuan repository. This has the advantage that supports many more file types, not just PDF; comicbook, djvu, dvi, eps, postscript.

I have grown to like Chromium for viewing and printing PDFs. Have added this for when you right-click on a PDF file; now "PDFview" will be offered, which will launch the PDF in Chromium.

Chromium has a feature to view the PDF like it is an app, not a browser. There is now /usr/share/applications/pdfview.deskop, which will cause a menu entry. Either via the menu (Document category), or via right-click menu on a PDF file, will run /usr/sbin/pdfview:

#!/bin/bash

F1="$(realpath "$@")"
if [ ! -f "$F1" ];then exit; fi
F2="${F1// /%20}"
chromium --app=file://${F2}

Then the PDF will open in Chromium looking like a PDF-viewer app:

Another nice usability refinement.   

Tags: easy