 Welcome to the challenge between Ocular and Avience and as always it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to try to say what program is best because it's always best for whom exactly. But what I'm going to do is ask on Twitter, I did this months ago at this point, what makes a PDF reader a good PDF reader and then give one point to either of the programs depending on what program is able to make that particular person happy. That doesn't mean it's better, it's just a way to try to do a comparison between the two, which I think is helpful. So let's start with the first one which is the most important thing is to have annotation handle alighting functionalities. So let's try that out immediately. Let's open a couple of files. Okay let's try to highlight some text. In Ocular case we have immediately this yellow highlighter button, so I think this should work out of the box nicely. Here we've got an edit button with highlight text and that also works super nicely. In Ocular you can also select here like other types of annotations. You do also have annotation tools which you can use to actually like write on the document which is the annotate part. In here as far as I understood this you only have not text which is helpful but in my opinion not quite what annotation means. So I think in your Ocular slightly wins but let's see the second part of the tweet. Being able to add a signature from an image I guess and having the ability to copy text from the PDF directly is also super important. So let's try immediately to copy some text. In here is oops I need to exit this mode. We've got text selection. In here we select we copy and this is it. In here it should also work nicely just by selecting text. Let's see if it took it. It did. So selecting text super easy but can we actually add a signature though? I mean in here you can technically sign just using this mark which you can select to be black if you prefer. Can you actually add an image on top of this? I don't think so but let's try. We'd like to embed an image. Let's just try I don't know dragon dropping. Nope doesn't work here surely and here it doesn't work either. Nope I don't see any such thing. You probably need like external plus plus which does that but for now I think that ocular kind of wins this one thanks to the ability to actually annotate and actually sign because I have used ocular to sign something just using the ability to actually draw. I have a drawing tablet and it works nicely on ocular so on ocular you can actually sign. In here we've got annotation highlights we've seen that making notes we've done this here. We can also do this here in a similar fashion so it works in both. A decent dark mode and with dark mode I'm only going to count the dark mode that actually darkens the pdf itself that that's what dark mode is to me and since you do actually have this here and it's super nice I've actually used a lot this feature when studying makes my eye rest a bit. In ocular I have never found such a feature. Now actually here it is it's just super hidden accessibility change colors invert colors that should do that trick technically works practically it's very hidden so Evince is currently winning on this one also rather hard to actually turn off and on depending on the actual pdf you're viewing smooth scrolling so let's see which one scrolls best in this case you do have extremely smooth scrolling even with a touch screen I think yep it works nicely in ocular with a touch screen sorry again I need to turn off this with a touch screen it currently doesn't work but sorry I need to click on browse it has work and it has super smooth scrolling too you can also zoom in and out just like here in here it's slightly bugger but that's worth noting as far as the scroll bar goes scrolling through sorry touch pad it is nowhere close so here this time Evince is a clear winner of this one. Text highlighting we tested that but with multiple colors so let's try that out in here we've got yellow and green out of the box and if we show more annotation tools and select the highlight text we can actually choose between a variety of colors and then even more so we've got all of the colors in here we've got highlight text but as far as I know there is no way to actually choose the color so I'm going to say that it's either not implemented or not nicely exposed because if such feature was implemented it should be here so ocular does win multiple colors keyboard shortcuts for easily reaching between view options fit page fit with tall girl continuous single page facing pages let's try this so Evince do you have this that's not an easy one to answer keyboard shortcuts okay so we've got a fit page and we've got fit with and automatic zoom and zoom in zoom out so that's nice correct navigation was that let me try it nope that's not what he was asking for okay so there is a lot of shortcuts to actually move around so that's useful we need to change views though and here we have it it's toggle continuous scrolling and toggle dual page so we have this what's next ocular can you do this we do have shortcuts for zoom in zoom out and zoom to 100% not here though and apparently not here either let's double check in settings just to be sure yep we do not have it except for fit window to page which is not the same thing we can set it but that's not the point evince does come with them out of the box and they're nicely exposed in this window so evince wins this one okay so this one is tough but let's see what we can get out of this tabs as far as I know neither implements tab navigation yep multiple windows both of them have it nice keyboard navigation we've just seen recently opened files we have them here open recent what a bit what about here though how do I open recent files okay I see no way to actually see what are the recent files I guess this might be exposed maybe through the shell maybe if you right click somewhere in GNOME but in here there's no such thing that I can see so right now ocular is in slight advantage what else being able to load documents for URLs whoa tough one let's try it so let's pick pdf from the internet congratulations your computer is equipped with pdf portable document format reader thank you okay so we want to do like this worked actually this there's a backed notification but still ocular worked I just gave the URL to ocular and it auto downloaded it which is necessary and showed it so nice works out of the box what about evince works perfect both of them flawlessly infinite scrolling we do have that enabled by default in both of them horizontal and vertical okay let's see if we have this so let's see it should be right to left document I think no sorry something else entirely sorry huh how do I do this maybe I cannot do this yeah I don't think I can do like horizontal scrolling in evince what about here so it is continuous but can I do that horizontally there is something similar which is the overview which seems to like throw all the pages together not quite oh right to left no sorry again it's another things now overview columns so it has three columns columns only wait open new files in tabs you do have tabs and I didn't know that ocular as tabs ocular as tabs I didn't know that you learn something new every day of caddy apparently because okay so sorry sorry ocular does have tabs I just nobody told me that said I might be blind but I cannot find in either program the ability to have horizontal scrolling however tabs and recently open files together make this one a win I mean good zoom control sorry I forgot about that but it's like the same it works in the same way so I mean yeah this one is a win for ocular filling forms that's true so in theory a pdf might have forms inside of it like inside of the pdf let's try if we can find one as a test say this is what I'm talking about there's this pdf and you can actually type in the pdf so let's try this one now we know that we can just ocular link let's try to write can we ah yes this document has forms click on the button to interact with them show forms now we can actually interact with them that's that's actually really nice it works nicely out of the box we can even like tick like this it works perfect we have got a comb box which works as well so 10 out of 10 I mean doesn't follow the I mean it's it's inverted it would look decent if I hadn't inverted the colors so works events can you do that yes out of the box nicely even checkboxes I think it's broken though I mean let's say that I speak and understand let's see let's say that I speak Latin and that I also have a driving license at the same time I just can't it's either one okay favorite color black nice works I'm going to give this a draw even though even though to be fully honest I do think that an ocular kind of wins here because not everything has pdf forms in them actually most of the pdfs don't have pdf forms even though they have normal forms and pdf sorry ocular does have I can do this does have your the ability to actually like write anything so you could fill out forms and then sign them just using this annotation toolbar but I feel like this is more of a draw since events does support pdf forms hereot herot herot I don't know how is that pronounced sorry writes a good copy paste mechanism I guess okay so as far as copy pasting go let's run off the net mode in here looks nice works nicely there is some benefit in ocular that are that is significant in my opinion and that is it also allows you to select the area so if I only want to select these columns I can just do this and then I copy to clipboard and this allows me to copy paste just part the pdf whereas in here you can't quite do that you also select the axis you can also do like table selection which is sorry table selection this is so called though one two three four five interesting I never use this but yeah a real selection also allows you to copy the part of the pdf you selected as an image to the clipboard so you can actually copy paste part of the pdf as if it was an image so I think this is a strong win for ocular because copy pasting both images and text but using an area selection is something I've used a lot however this video is way too long already most of the comments that I've left out were either repetition of what I've shown or stuff like being light loading the document fast these things I cannot quite test or also things like being simple that's probably a win for events out of the box however I can just do this and honestly now it's not so clear like yes more buttons but it's not that hard to understand what they do like browse yellow highlighter so it's hard to actually evaluate what is simplest or what is faster so I'm not gonna attempt to do that right now ocular is winning and personally I do prefer ocular maybe it's a bit of a bias you tell me in the comments this was just a bit a bit me comparing the two and also learning a lot of new stuff like about ocular I didn't know it at tabs I didn't know you could actually invert the colors so I discovered something new and maybe you did too