Title mostly says it all. Preview is unironically an incredible piece of software. Between feature set and ease of use, I have yet to come across any FOSS that is comparable. Anyone know of a Linux alternative?

EDIT: Due to popular demand I should explain Preview more. It’s a “fully fledged” PDF editor, but somehow it’s completely different from something like Adobe Acrobat. The way most users will interact with it is as a seemingly very plain image viewer, but if you open a PDF you can add fillable boxes, rearrange pages, split and merge PDFs, etc. I cannot place exactly why it’s workflows feel so much better than something like Acrobat.

  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
    52·
    10 days ago

    Dolphin has the information panel which is activated by pressing F11. I don’t know what more mac preview does.

    • Arkhive (they/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      4·
      10 days ago

      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.

      • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
        2·
        10 days ago

        Ah, so not the information panel then. I don’t know of a single application that does image editing, pdf viewing, and scanning. There are applications for all three individually.

  • thenose@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 days ago

    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

      • thenose@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 days ago

        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

  • glitching@lemmy.ml
    31·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • moistracoon@lemmy.zip
    313·
    9 days ago

    Any Linux distro Edit: guys, chill, when I posted this comment, op was very vague he just said “what Linux can replace macOS” he wasn’t specific. He has adjusted his post but I didn’t see this until just now and I’m downvoted. I totally get it though lol my b

    • Arkhive (they/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      10·
      10 days ago

      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.