> $ apt-cache show mupdf > MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. > (...)
The mupdf PDF reader is supposed to be minimal and makes on me the impression of being more a reference implementation using the mupdf library. A more featureful but still light PDF reader, which is able to utilize mupdf as the rendering backend, is zathura (in Debian) with the mupdf rendering backend (not in Debian [1]). The zathura upstream is very lively and is constantly gaining features. It may be my personal perception, but the fidelity of the PDF rendering in mupdf is *vastly* superior to xpdf and all the PDF readers (evince, okular ...) which use libpoppler at this point, resulting in mupdf/libmupdf being AFIK the only native and free PDF reader available for Linux with a rendering engine that can rival the proprietary ones like acrobat (in quality, not feature parity). I therefore suggest packaging zathura with the zathura-pdf-mupdf plugin. Regards, Jens. -- [1] http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/plugins/zathura-pdf-mupdf/ On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:39:24AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2014-01-13 10:43:50 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > While someone could fix the package, you may want to consider not doing > > so. After running into endless bugs in xpdf, I personally switched to > > mupdf for a light-weight PDF reader and found it superior in every respect > > except for the fact that it doesn't, so far as I can tell, support > > printing. So I use mupdf to view PDF documents, and on the rare occasion > > that I want to print one, I open it in gv (which I find clunkier, but > > which generally works fine and prints). > > I've just had a look at it, and found that it misses some important > features present in xpdf, e.g. > * PDF bookmarks. > * Permament fit page (i.e. when one resizes the window or with the > fullscreen toggle), and BTW, one has to try both W and H. > * Copy with the left button (the right button is hardly usable with > a trackpad for dragging). > > So, it can't be seen as a good replacement for xpdf. Other PDF viewers > have their own drawbacks as well. > > -- > Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> > 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> > Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140119233924.ga29...@xvii.vinc17.org >
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