Re: mupdf (was: xpdf removed from testing?)
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Jens Oliver John <lists@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.
aka #731447
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