From what I read Preview is full suite of PDF reader right? If so Okular by KDE seems like a good alternative.
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gnome sushi (installed by default in gnome) handles the press space to preview file. not a fully fledged editor but still miss the thing in plasma.
Just to add the noise: I use Sterling pdf which i host and dear god it has so many functions that i never knew existed
Yeah it's very nice. Also discovered this a few months back. Layout of the website is a bit weird at times on low resolutions, but otherwise it's great.
May I ask what hardware you have to host this?
I host many other things on that hardware. But it’s a small 1 litre pc. Sterling pdf is eating the least from there. I tried but I cant stop listing what i have. It is a 6 core gen 10 i5 w 32 gb RAM. Proxmox as hypervisor running two Debian VMs. I think I run 30+ services on it but again sterlingPDF is least of my concerns there. If you don’t have the hardware I genuinely believe you can run it locally without any issues or you can run it on a potato
Preview is one of the things mac os got right. it's hard to copy. If you think about it, it does not make sense that a tool called preview that most people use to quickly read pdf (and other) files, is also a lightweight pdf editor, which is often more useful than acrobat or pdfedit or whatever you use.
It's not logical. no one will make a clone of it.
you'll have to get used to other tools.
Yeah probably true. I’ve got some hopes for the work being done on running Mac apps on Linux, even tried getting an old version of preview working a while back, with absolutely zero success. The tool I was trying had incredibly limited support for graphical apps.
Dolphin has the information panel which is activated by pressing F11. I don't know what more mac preview does.
It’s odd because I feel like it gets mixed up, very fairly due to its name, with MacOS “QuickLook”, which is the actual file previewing tool, giving a quick peek into a file by hitting ‘space’ with the file selected. Preview is essentially an image editor, but it doubles, or maybe triples, as PDF viewer/editor and scanner importer. The names are kinda silly tbh.
I’m already running Linux. I’m looking for an application that can run on Linux that roughly matches the feature set of MacOS Preview for image and PDF viewing and basic editing.
It might be helpful if you explained what it is or what it does.
E: honestly not sure why I'm being downvoted for asking what the thing in the OP is...
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