Lightweight chm and djvu (and pdf) viewer?

On windows I have used SumatraPDF, a very fast and lightweight app that can read pdf, djvu, and chm, among others.
On arch I'm using epdfview for PDFs, but is there anything light and fast for chm and djvu? and of course, better one app to handle them all.
Last edited by archadmirer (2012-01-13 09:02:06)

/dev/zero wrote:Have you seen this list?
what does 'common' have in common with light and/or fast?
I did look here, and didn't find anything for chm or djvu.
tomk wrote:Did you look in the repos and AUR?
Of course, and I know I can do some guesswork based on the dependencies etc, to pick a light/fast one. but the forums are all about sharing experience, right?
OK, for chm I have settled on xchm. it opens instantly large files and is very good all around. one problem, it frequently drops the spaces between word, suchasthis. is there a fix? are the others (gnochm, chmsee, etc) better?
thanks.

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