Lazy Ubuntu

Apvlv is a nifty PDF document viewer. With Apvlv, you can read PDF documents like using Vim. For Vim fans, that’s quite cool.

Installation

To install Apvlv on Ubuntu, you can download deb package of Apvlv from here. Then open your terminal and run this command:

$ sudo dpkg -i apvlv0.0.6.9-1i386.deb

Alternatively, you can also install Apvlv from sources on Ubuntu:

1. Installing build tools and all of the dependencies: $ sudo aptitude install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev
2. Configure, make and install: $ tar zxvf apvlv-0.0.6.10.tar.gz $ cd apvlv-0.0.6.10 $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install

Usage

To run Apvlv, you can execute the following command in terminal:

$ apvlv

Apvlv common shortcut keys:

• o - open PDF document
• j - page scroll down
• k - page scroll up
• Ctrl+f - next page
• Ctrl+b - previous page
• g - page show
• H - scroll to head
• M - scroll to middle
• L - scroll to last
• f - full screen mode
• zi - zoom in the page
• zo - zoom out the page