List of applications/Documents

Documents

Document Readers

Console

• fbpdf — small framebuffer PDF viewer based off of MuPDF, with VIM keybindings, written in C

http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpdf.git || fbpdf-git^AUR

• fbdjvu — djvu viewer similar for fbpdf but for djvu files

http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpdf.git || fbpdf-git^AUR (can be built from the same source after small PKGBUILD modification)

Graphical

• apvlv — A lightweight PDF viewer with VIM key bindings

http://naihe2010.github.com/apvlv/ || apvlv

• ePDFView — A free lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries

http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/ || epdfview

• Evince — document viewer for multiple document formats. Supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi

http://projects.gnome.org/evince/ || evince

• Foxit Reader — small, fast (compared to Acrobat) PDF viewer

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/ || foxitreader^AUR

• llpp — A very fast PDF reader based off of MuPDF, that supports continuous page scrolling, bookmarking, and text search through the whole document

http://repo.or.cz/w/llpp.git || llpp-git^AUR

• MuPDF — A very fast PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. Features CJK font support

http://mupdf.com || mupdf

• Okular — viewer for KDE.

http://okular.kde.org/ || kdegraphics-okular

• qpdfview — A tabbed PDF viewer using the Poppler and QT libraries

https://launchpad.net/qpdfview || qpdfview^AUR

• Xpdf — A viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ || xpdf

• zathura — Another lightweight PDF viewer similar to apvlv, only lighter

http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ || zathura

Chm Viewers

• Gnochm — a chm viewer meant to integrate with GNOME. It is based on pychm.

http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/ || gnochm

• xchm — it is a lightweight chm viewer, based on chmlib.

http://xchm.sf.net/ || xchm

• chmsee — It is a chm viewer based on xulrunner.

https://code.google.com/p/chmsee/ || chmsee

• kchmviewer — It is a qt based chm viewer. It also uses chmlib, and borrows some ideas from xchm. It does not depend on kde, but can be compiled to integrate with kde.

http://www.ulduzsoft.com/kchmviewer/ || kchmviewer

Office suites

• LibreOffice — fork of OpenOffice.org, the one under active development

https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice

• OpenOffice.org — powerful office suite, relicensed under Apache License

http://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-base-bin^AUR

• Calligra — fork of KOffice, integrates nicely with kde, actively developed.

http://www.calligra-suite.org/ || calligra

Indexers

• pinot — personal search and metasearch tool

http://code.google.com/p/pinot-search/ || pinot

• recoll — full text search tool based on Xapian backend

http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ || recoll

Word processors

• Abiword — A full-featured word processor

http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword

• Abiword Light — A lighter version of Abiword

http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword-light^AUR

• BlueGriffon — BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web.

http://www.bluegriffon.com/ || BlueGriffon^AUR

• LibreOffice Writer — full-featured word processor included in the LibreOffice suite

https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice-writer

• OpenOffice.org Writer — full-featured word processor included in the OpenOffice.org suite

http://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-base-bin^AUR?

• Markdown — A text-to-HTML conversion tool that allows you to write using a simple plain text format

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown || markdown^AUR

• pandoc — A swiss-army knife for converting one markup format into another (supports Markdown)

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc || pandoc^AUR

• txt2tags — A dead-simple, KISS-compliant lightweight, human-readable markup language to produce rich format content out of plain text files

http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net || txt2tags

• Ted — easy GTK-based rich text processor (with footnote support)

http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ || ted

Spreadsheets

Template:Wikipedia

• gnumeric — GNOME Spreadsheet Program

http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ || gnumeric

• Libreoffice Calc — spreadsheet application for LibreOffice

https://www.libreoffice.org/features/calc/ || libreoffice-calc

• OpenOffice.org Calc — full-featured spreadsheet included in OpenOffice.org suite

http://openoffice.org/product/calc || openoffice-base-bin^AUR?

Scientific Documents

With LaTeX, creation of any scientific document, article, journal, etc. is made commonplace. Here are two examples of frontends for LaTeX.

• TeXMacs — wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists.

http://www.texmacs.org/ || texmacs

• LyX — LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).

http://www.lyx.org/ || lyx

• Texmaker — Texmaker is an cross-plateform, light and easy-to-use LaTeX IDE.

http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/index.html || texmaker^AUR

• AUCTeX — Turns Emacs in one of the most powerful TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt environment to date.

http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ || auctex