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How To Install Qpdfview on Pop OS

To Install Qpdfview on Pop OS

The qpdfview is a tabbed document viewer. It uses popular for PDF support, libspectre for PS support, CUPS for printing support and Qt toolkit for its interface. It includes features like scaling, rotating and fitting the document, configurable tool bard, SyncTeX support. It is so simple to install Qpdfview on Pop OS and this tutorial covers the ground on the same process.

Installing Qpdfview

First make sure you update the repo by making use of the following command. 

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu artful InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security InRelease       
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful InRelease              
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Once you are through with it, make sure you install Qpdfview by making use of the following command. 

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install qpdfview
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libdbusmenu-gtk4
Use ' apt autoremove'  to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libdouble-conversion1 libpoppler-qt5-1 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5
  libqt5network5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5
  libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5 libxcb-xinerama0 qpdfview-djvu-plugin
  qpdfview-ps-plugin qpdfview-translations qt5-gtk-platformtheme
  qttranslations5-l10n
Suggested packages:
  qt5-image-formats-plugins qtwayland5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdouble-conversion1 libpoppler-qt5-1 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5
  libqt5network5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5
  libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5 libxcb-xinerama0 qpdfview qpdfview-djvu-plugin
  qpdfview-ps-plugin qpdfview-translations qt5-gtk-platformtheme
  qttranslations5-l10n
.
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Setting up qpdfview-translations (0.4.14-1) ...
Setting up qpdfview-ps-plugin (0.4.14-1) ...
Setting up qpdfview-djvu-plugin (0.4.14-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.26-0ubuntu2.1) ...

After the installation, go to activities and type qpdfview. The application icon appears on the screen. Click the icon to open it.

The application is now open.

With this, the installation of Qpdfview on Pop OS comes to an end.

Tag : PDF Reader Pop OS
FAQ
Q
What is the stable repo to be used for qpdfview on debian?
A
Use the following repo for debian

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main
Q
How to turn a pdf into a text searchable pdf?
A
OCRmyPDF has become available true apt. Just run

sudo apt install ocrmypdf
ocrmypdf -h # to see the usage
Q
How to highlight text in qpdfview?
A
Edit/Add annotation or Ctrl+A. Select the text area (that will be highlighted) and Add_highlight to highlight text.
Q
Where is the text selection tool in qpdfview?
A
In qpdfviewer after selecting your pdf, go to Edit > Copy to Clipboard and select the text your require using the cross-hairs tool.
Q
How to index a pdf document?
A
Qpdfview ist not yet available in the official repositories but can be easily installed from the developer's PPA by typing:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:b-eltzner/qpdfview && apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qpdfview