On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Jens Oliver John <li...@2ion.de> wrote: >> $ 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.
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