Alternatives to Xreader
Linux Mint's document viewer for PDF, PostScript, DjVu, XPS and comic book files. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Xreader
Linux Mint's document viewer for PDF, PostScript, DjVu, XPS and comic book files.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Xreader.
Evince
GNOME's lightweight document viewer for PDF, PostScript and other document formats on Linux.
Evince is GNOME's lightweight viewer for PDF and PostScript, fitting the GNOME desktop rather than Linux Mint's Cinnamon-oriented design.
Atril
The MATE desktop's multi-page document viewer for PDF, PostScript, DjVu, XPS and comics.
Atril is the MATE desktop's viewer with a similar format range including DVI, XPS and comic archives and a traditional interface.
Okular
Universal document viewer for PDF, EPUB, comics, DjVu and more.
Okular handles an even wider range of formats including EPUB, stores annotations separately and runs on Windows and macOS, but pulls in KDE libraries.
Papers
A GNOME document viewer for reading, searching and annotating PDFs, DjVu, TIFF and comics.
Papers is an actively maintained GNOME viewer with PDF annotation and an adaptive interface for small screens, also opening DjVu, TIFF and comics.
qpdfview
A tabbed Qt document viewer for PDF, PostScript and DjVu files.
qpdfview is a tabbed Qt viewer for PDF, PostScript and DjVu with SyncTeX support, though its annotation support is rudimentary and releases are slow.
zathura
A minimal, keyboard-driven document viewer with plugin support for PDF, PostScript and DjVu.
zathura is a minimal keyboard-driven viewer with vim-like keys and plugin backends, configured through text files instead of a graphical settings window.
MuPDF
Compact, very fast PDF and XPS viewer with a command-line toolkit.
MuPDF is a very fast, compact viewer for PDF and XPS on Linux and other platforms, with a deliberately minimal keyboard-driven interface and a command-line toolkit.
Sioyek
A PDF reader built for textbooks and research papers, with keyboard control and quick jumps to figures and references.
Sioyek is a cross-platform reader aimed at papers and textbooks, with keyboard control and reference overlays, but weaker annotation and form filling.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Xreader as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
DjVuLibre
An open-source DjVu implementation with a viewer and command-line tools for scanned documents.
Xreader is Linux Mint's GTK document viewer that opens DjVu alongside PDF, XPS and comics, but it lacks DjVuLibre's command-line encoders and conversion tools.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Sumatra PDF
A small, fast, open-source reader for PDF, EPUB, MOBI, CBZ, DjVu and other documents on Windows.
Xpdf
A PDF viewer plus command-line tools for extracting text and images and converting PDFs to HTML.
Poppler
PDF rendering library with pdftotext, pdftoppm and pdfinfo tools.
PDF Arranger
Drag PDF pages into the order you want, rotate them, crop them, and merge two files together.
Xournal++
Handwritten notes and PDF annotation with a stylus, including on top of lecture slides and scanned papers.
