Why?
Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable.
Of course there are alternatives, specifically bad ones.
FoxIt is slow and non-customizable.
Chrome/Firefox kinda works as a PDF reader, but is lacking in the feature department.
On linux there is (at least) one non-bad PDF reader. Zathura is amazing with the MuPDF backend. However it only works on X11/Xorg and thus Linux. I use Wayland and Windows.
Zathura-2?
If I could just reach parity with the features from Zathura it would be the perfect program for me. And perhaps I could even create a more approachable program for others as well.
Zathura is keyboard focused, featuring a modal navigation system and command line, just like in Vim. I love that, but it’s not for everyone, and it’s not even always for me depending on what I’m doing. Mouse controls are great, when they are optional.
Hot reloading PDFs when they change on disk is a killer feature as well. But it can be pushed even further. What if you switch to another file in your editor? Wouldn’t it be nice if the PDF reader could switch with the editor, automatically?
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