For Linux desktop users seeking a high-performance, lightweight PDF and DjVu document viewer with tabbed browsing, qpdfview (built with Qt5 and Poppler) is significantly faster and more customizable than default desktop readers like Evince.
Features: Tabbed reading • Continuous two-page layout • Low memory footprint • Poppler Qt5 rendering
Installation Steps (Ubuntu / Debian)
# 1. Install Qt5 and document format rendering development packages
sudo apt-get install qttools5-dev-tools libpoppler-qt5-dev libspectre-dev libdjvulibre-dev libcups2-dev build-essential -y
# 2. Download and build latest qpdfview release
mkdir -p ~/src && cd ~/src
wget https://launchpad.net/qpdfview/trunk/0.4.17/+download/qpdfview-0.4.17.tar.gz
tar -zxf qpdfview-0.4.17.tar.gz
cd qpdfview-0.4.17
# 3. Generate Makefile and compile with all plugins enabled
lrelease qpdfview.pro
qmake qpdfview.pro
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
