ebooks & PDFs

Among the many many possibilities, I’ve homed in, over the years, on these few tools, for functionality and freedom:

• eBook
  • Foliate is nice and simple, Calibre does it all.
• PDF
  • Firefox does a good job of displaying PDFs, and can show the Document Outline.
  • On my Linux machines
    • I have Zathura (document viewer), which has many handy keyboard shortcuts.
    • Poppler provides some handy tools, including
      • pdfimages to pull out any images
      • pdftotext, helps in my $OSAB/ranger/scope.sh
  • On my Windows 10 Pro laptop: Microsoft Edge does a good job of displaying PDFs, but I more often use Sumatra PDF.
  • Sometimes I want to convert a PDF to PNG, I wrote myself some functions that use Ghostscript for that:
    • $AjB/bashrc-ob contains my wrapper around gs
    • $MSWin10\PSProfile.ps1 contains my wrapper around gswin64c
  • pdftk although dated, still has useful functionality. I use it to
    • burst out PDF to single pages
    • decrypt