Use Okular To View PDF Documents

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Ever since I discovered Okular, a universal document viewer for KDE 4, I haven't used another PDF document reader. I just love the KDE user interface. You should also try it. I'm sure you will like it.

Lately, I have been working on a web application that generates PDF quotes on the fly. While writing the PDF document generator script, I have to run the script and see how the document formatting has appeared. With Okular, I open the document only once. Upon each successive write operation to the PDF file, Okular refreshes the document. How cool.

I suspected other document readers did not have this auto refresh feature. I tested Evince. I was right.

Okular is truly intuitive.

Go get it from your distribution repositories.

apt-get install kdegraphics
yum install kdegraphics
... install kdegraphics

Still wondering what the heck I am talking about? Go visit http://okular.kde.org/

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Sudheer is an entrepreneur and software developer. Get more from Sudheer on Twitter.


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