PDF-XChange is the best compatible pdf reader for Docear. In Linux, I couldn’t manage to open pdf PDF-XChange even I changed it to default pdf reader. But this thread solves this. Basically “…If you want you can test it for yourself. In Docear, please use “Tools and settings > Miscellaneous > Preferences” to open Docear’s…
Docear runs fine on Ubuntu 18.04 but not out of box. The culprit is the new Java. One has to restore back to jdk 8.0 to get it work.
Docear’s google scholar fetcher was not working probably for several years. However, it can be easily fixed following this post.
Docear is a very nice concept that unfortunately is quite broken because of lack of support. Export to Latex supposes to be a killer feature but as of 2018 it really does not run out of the box. A workaround is described here. Basically, a best solution is to use Saxon rather than using the export…
PDF-XChange can be installed and run quite smoothly with wine. However, it is a bit tricky to set it as default application as it is not registered automatically and so won’t be on the list of choices when using mimeopen to set default app. My solution is to change default.list in ~/.local/share/applications (or /usr/share/applications if you want to…