Evince vs Komodo PDF

Evince is a free document viewer for Linux desktop users. It opens PDF, PostScript, DjVu, DVI, XPS, OXPS, and Comic Book Archive files, and can display supported documents as full-screen presentations. Interactive forms can be completed, including text fields and scrollable list boxes. For PDFs, Evince can add notes and text highlights; these annotations are limited to PDF files. SyncTeX synchronizes a TeX source file with its resulting PDF. Printing is documented for DVI, DjVu, PDF, PostScript, and TIFF. When opening a password-protected PDF, Evince prompts for its password. It is not a file editor. Some Linux distributions may need the relevant backend package to support every listed format. The project wiki recommends obtaining Evince through the user's Linux distribution and points to packages or source for other download options. The help site includes user documentation and directions for reporting application bugs.

Komodo PDF is a free, GPLv3 open-source PDF reader for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its local-first reader supports continuous scrolling, zoom, fit-width and fit-page views, document outlines, and text selection. An AI panel answers questions using passages indexed in a local vector store. Clicking a citation takes you to the cited passage and highlights it, while a per-page badge marks pages without a text layer, such as scanned images. If the document cannot answer, the assistant can use general knowledge and indicate that fallback. Chat works with OpenAI-compatible providers using your own API key and with local chat endpoints. The maker says Komodo has no backend, sends no telemetry, and does not upload documents to Komodo; remote chat sends retrieved passages to the configured provider. With local ONNX embeddings and a local chat endpoint, documents are said to remain on the laptop. API keys use the operating-system keyring with an encrypted disk fallback. Windows downloads include EXE, MSI, and portable ZIP files, with published SHA-256 checksums. Version 0.1.1 is displayed.