Quickly browse through many PDFs
I am in the same need when I produce multiple plots and graphs (with R typically) that I want to be .pdf for resolution and for LaTeX integration.
I may have 3 suggestions, the 1st being the one I like the most (just found it and really excited about it).
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impressive
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Install it:
sudo apt-get install impressive
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Then, from a terminal in your directory:
impressive -T0 -w *.pdf
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It will display a presentation of your pdf files. the
-T0
option removes transitions (or, equivalently,-t None
), and the-w
wraps the presentation (you can return to 1st slide from the last one).You may want to use the
-f
switch to avoid starting in fullscreen mode (anyway you can toggle to fullscreen hitting the "f" key).For zooming, position your mouse where you want to zoom in, and hit "z".
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Now, to relate to your question, it unfortunately doesn't keep the viewing position, and the zoom feature is limited. Otherwise, I believe it is better to use impressive than merging into one file, in terms of memory usage.
Here is a quick fix using mupdf and a bash script: Is there a way to quickly browse multiple pdfs in a directory?
Otherwise I am just discovering the great Zathura pdf reader, it's highly customizable, I suspect there might be a way to write a plugin and bind keys to switch to the next pdf.