Does there exist a pdf-viewer for ubuntu offering up to 6400 percent zoom?

The question is in the title.

I can hardly believe it, but after having tried each of 'evince', 'Master PDF', 'okular', 'xpdf', I am quite sure that none of these well-known readers offers as high a zoom factor as does e.g. Acroreader. For my work it is indispensable to have at least 6400% zoom, and, having recently changed to ubuntu, I now seem to find myself in a situation in which the only way is to try to get Acroreader running via Wine (which I didn't try yet, and hope to be able to avoid trying).

Solution 1:

You can have Evince zoom at higher levels by increasing the page cache size. For example,

gsettings set org.gnome.Evince page-cache-size 500

will increase the page-cache size from 50 MiB, the default, to 500 MiB, and thus increase the available zoom to 1600%. You can try with higher values. However, from certain zoom levels onwards, it won't work anymore.

Solution 2:

1. You can try to install QPDFView with sudo apt-get install qpdfview. It allows high zoom levels as 5000%.

2. As far I know old unsupported Adobe Reader 9 for linux allows 6400% zoom.

   You can install it manually from 12.04 LTS repository and other packages. Usually it is bad idea. But if you really needed it, you can proceed with:

   sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
   wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/139930013/acroread-bin_9.5.5-1precise1_i386.deb
   wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/139930012/acroread_9.5.5-1precise1_i386.deb
   wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/n/nspluginwrapper/nspluginviewer_1.4.4-0ubuntu5_i386.deb
   wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/n/nspluginwrapper/nspluginwrapper_1.4.4-0ubuntu5_i386.deb
   sudo gdebi -n nspluginviewer_1.4.4-0ubuntu5_i386.deb
   sudo gdebi -n nspluginwrapper_1.4.4-0ubuntu5_i386.deb
   sudo gdebi -n acroread-bin_9.5.5-1precise1_i386.deb
   sudo gdebi -n acroread_9.5.5-1precise1_i386.deb
   sudo apt-get install -f