Better pdf Reader Needed
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+1, the PDF viewer needs these features
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I agree, the current PDF viewer is sluggish and slow and lacks a lot fundamental features. It keeps the text rendered while scrolling. Edge pixelates the text while scrolling to achieve a faster experience while scrolling which makes it fast.
For how feature-rich vivaldi is and for the "power" users, it has to have a better PDF viewer that i would like to see.
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I don't see this ever happening, as the PDF plugin is not developed by Vivaldi. Developing a full PDF editor is a huge task. PDF-XChange Editor is free for the most important features, comments, highlighting, etc.
However, that is only helpful to Windows users. Linux and Mac users will need to find different solutions.
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@amind0 said in Better pdf Reader Needed:
I agree, the current PDF viewer is sluggish and slow and lacks a lot fundamental features. It keeps the text rendered while scrolling. Edge pixelates the text while scrolling to achieve a faster experience while scrolling which makes it fast. For how feature-rich vivaldi is and for the "power" users, it has to have a better PDF viewer that i would like to see.
But aren't you guys better off with a third party PDF reader? The more functions you put into the browser, the more security risks. I believe a browser's main job is to render webpages, not PDF's.
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@RasheedHolland
If other browsers did it, vivaldi can do it too, thats what i think, it has already so many fratures, like mail client, pdf client could be helpful as well. -
@amind0 said in Better pdf Reader Needed:
@RasheedHolland
If other browsers did it, vivaldi can do it too, thats what i think, it has already so many fratures, like mail client, pdf client could be helpful as well.I guess this is true, but I was never fan of adding a calendar and email function to Vivaldi, they put so much time into this stuff, that they forgot to improve the browser on certain points. I personally don't need to edit PDF's and I open them with Sumatra PDF Reader.
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I would like to see a better pdf reader, too. At least, I would like to see that the touch screen works, and then, if possible, annotations.
I enjoy reading pdf in Edge. I think Vivaldi could also catch up and give users a better experience. It would be a piece of big news to me...
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I know it's a difficult thing to code, but Vivaldi would get closer to be the perfect browser ever. @Pesala thank you for sharing "PDF-XChange Editor", I will use it until Vivaldi make a better pdf reader.
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@br1elz You will have to use PDF-XChange Editor for the foreseeable future, as the Vivaldi Team lacks the resources to write their own PDF plugin. For now, at least, most of the essential feature can be used for free.
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@edsonneto English only in this forum section please.
Totally agree! It is nonsense that such a useful resource is missing in a resource-focused browser! It is so basic that I am surprised that Edge is the only one to take this step.
Microsoft have far more staff to do the coding. The Vivaldi Team currently has just 27 developers to fix all bugs and security issues and add features across multiple platforms including Linux, Mac, Android, and iOS.
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Would MuPDF be a good starting place?
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What about including the one from Firefox (pdf.js if I'm not mistaken)? Is that feasible?
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Hello all,
i would also like to point out that while we love Vivaldi, indeed it lacks the PDF Viewer it has.
It would make it super functional to add:
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Pencil icon so we can quickly sign, draw something on a PDF we open with Vivaldi.
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The ability to upload an image to PDF and save it with that image included.
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A highlight tool, so we can save it with the highlight included!
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@leonidasfs said in Better pdf Reader Needed:
Hello all,
i would also like to point out that while we love Vivaldi, indeed it lacks the PDF Viewer it has.
It would make it super functional to add:
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Pencil icon so we can quickly sign, draw something on a PDF we open with Vivaldi.
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The ability to upload an image to PDF and save it with that image included.
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A highlight tool, so we can save it with the highlight included!
It will not happen.
Vivaldi is a Chromium fork, it will come with the PDF viewer of Chromium.
They do not have the resources to re-code Chromium's PDF Reader and patch it 2-3 times every month to apply their changes, in every new Chromium release.
There is also a chance Chromium to have major changes in the PDF reader and have to re-code the changes from scratch.
The only browser which is capable to patch that much Chromium is Edge because Microsoft is a trillion dollar company with a huge team behind Edge.
No other Chromium fork has the manpower for that many patches in every Chromium release.
The best place to ask for changes in Chromium's PDF Reader is here. -
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Tip
- Install PDF-XChange Editor (the free version is adequate for most users).
- Enable Internal PDF Viewer for Vivaldi at Settings, Webpages
- Associated PDF Files with PDF-XChange Editor
- Open PDF files in Vivaldi by clicking the link to the PDF on any web page
- Disable Internal PDF Viewer in Settings Webpages
- Right-click a link to a PDF and select Open from the download dialog to open the PDF for annotation in PDF-XChange Editor
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For anyone who is not satisfied with the other workarounds recommended in this thread, I would warmly recommend setting up this chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pdf-reader/ieepebpjnkhaiioojkepfniodjmjjihl
It's just pdf.js for chrome; so basically the pdf reader firefox uses. It has basic functionality like adding text and highlights
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Vivaldi can learn from microsoft edge PDF reader
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@shojivrstrinova8 said in Better pdf Reader Needed:
microsoft edge PDF reader
Edge does not use PDFium?
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@DoctorG edge has their own PDF reader and more powerful than chrome, thats one of reason ppl still use microsoft edge
