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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Dual Panel File Manager Double Commander Sees New Release

Double Commander is a file manager that uses two side-by-side panels, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. The application ships with two interfaces: GTK2 and Qt4.

Started as a Sexi Commander fork and inspired by Total Commander, Double Commander has evolved over the years and it now includes numerous features, including support for WCX, WFX, WDX, WLX and DSX plugin types, tabs support, multi-rename tool, internal text editor and file viewer, archives support (allows browsing archives as if they were directories), extended search and much more.

Also, the file manager supports both horizontal and vertical dual-panel modes and is highly customizable, allowing users to change the toolbar appearance, internal commands, keyboard shortcuts and pretty much everything you can think of.

New Tree View Panel in Double Commander 0.7.0

Double Commander 0.7.0 was released recently, bringing important new features, like a tree view panel, built-in GVFS support on Linux, enhanced file association dialog and more.

Important new features and changes in Double Commander 0.7.0 include:

tree view panel;
selective change attributes;
search in archives (wcx plugins);
flat view in archives (wcx plugins);
asymmetric directory synchronization;
speed up CRC32/SFV hash calculation time;
calculate and verify blake2s, blake2sp hash;
many operations can be started initially in queue;
enhanced file association dialog;
default search template;
built-in GVFS support (Linux);
copy NTFS permissions (Windows);
copy files between virtual file sources;
edit file in virtual file sources (archives, ftp etc);
capability to choose encoding for each ftp connection;
favorite Tabs: capability to save/load group of tabs.

I should also mention that all Double Commander releases have the "beta" status, and theres no "stable" release so far. Thats most probably because the main developer feels the application is not feature complete yet.

For more information, check out the Double Commander website and its online help.

Download Double Commander

Download Double Commander (source as well as binaries for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows)

Theres also a Double Commander repository available for Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Fedora and CentOS - you can find exact instructions for adding the repository and installing Double Commander here: GTK | Qt.

Available link for download

Foxit PDF Reader Sees New Linux Release

Foxit PDF Reader for Linux was updated recently, after years of no new releases. The new version brings support for opening PDFs in tabs, annotations and more.

Foxit Reader is a popular free to use (but proprietary) PDF viewer available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Compared to the Windows version, Foxit PDF Reader for Linux lacks some features - most importantly, the ability to create PDF files, but the app still has quite a few useful features.

The latest Foxit Reader for Linux features a new user interface as well as new features such as annotations (called commenting tools in Foxit), multiple views, bookmarks, printing both the documents and annotations (you can print the document, the documment with annotations or just the annotations) and more.

Among the available "comment tools" are highlighting text, underline, strikeout, replace or insert text, add a note or draw using a pencil (and erase):

For the comments, you can choose from various icons such as an arrow, pointer, cross, star and more, useful for both adding notes for yourself or for collaboration.

I should also mention that in my test, the application was able to open a large PDF file (which contains a large number of images) very quickly and it allowed me to scroll through it easily, without any lag, as opposed to Evince for instance, which took 1-2 seconds to load new pages, so as far as performance is concerned, Foxit Reader works great.

If youre looking for an open source PDF reader that can open large PDF files quickly, check out MuPDF.

Unfortunately theres no official changelog for the latest Foxit PDF Reader for Linux so I cant tell you whats new under the hood.

Download Foxit Reader for Linux

(click the "Free Download" link on the left and select Linux from the Platform drop-down).

To install it, simply extract the downloaded archive, double click the extracted .run file and follow the instructions.

Also see: Modify PDF Files In Linux With Master PDF Editor

Thanks to bhaismachine for the tip!

Available link for download

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Dual Panel File Manager Double Commander Sees New Release

Dual Panel File Manager Double Commander Sees New Release

Download Double Commander

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Foxit PDF Reader Sees New Linux Release

Foxit PDF Reader Sees New Linux Release