{"id":5413,"date":"2015-11-12T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2015-11-12T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:36:36","slug":"mupdf-1-8-released-how-to-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/mupdf-1-8-released-how-to-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightweight PDF Viewer &#8216;MuPDF&#8217; 1.8 Released [How-to-Install]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mupdf-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4889\" alt=\"mupdf-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mupdf-icon.png\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mupdf-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mupdf-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MuPDF, a free, open-source, and lightweight PDF and XPS viewer, now reaches the 1.8 release with new features, improvements and various fixes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C, which also reads XPS, OpenXPS and EPUB documents. It works on Windows, Android, and Linux.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The renderer in MuPDF is tailored for high quality anti-aliased graphics. It renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to within fractions of a pixel for the highest fidelity in reproducing the look of a printed page on screen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>What&#8217;s New in <a href=\"http:\/\/mupdf.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">MuPDF 1.8<\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Headline changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New OpenGL-based barebones desktop viewer.<\/li>\n<li>New URW fonts with greek and cyrillic.<\/li>\n<li>64-bit file support.<\/li>\n<li>Ghostscript proofing mode (source only; not in shipped binaries).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EPUB improvements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>User style sheets.<\/li>\n<li>GIF images (also for CBZ).<\/li>\n<li>Table of contents.<\/li>\n<li>CJK text.<\/li>\n<li>Page margins.<\/li>\n<li>Many bug fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bug fixes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Updated FreeType to version 2.6.1.<\/li>\n<li>Various font substitution bug fixes.<\/li>\n<li>Fix setjmp\/longjmp behaviour which could cause optimizing compilers to misbehave.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, mudraw has been merged into mutool, use <code>mutool draw<\/code> to use mudraw.<\/p>\n<p><b>How to Install MuPDF 1.8 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There are Android, Windows installers, and source tarball available in its <a href=\"http:\/\/mupdf.com\/downloads\/\" target=\"_blank\">official download page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu and derivatives, you can either build the viewer from the source or use my personal binaries in PPA.<\/p>\n<p><b>Method 1:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Open <u>terminal<\/u> from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it opens, run below commands one by one to add my PPA and install MuPDF:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install mupdf mupdf-tools<\/pre>\n<p><b>Method 2<\/b> For those who don&#8217;t want to add PPA:<\/p>\n<p>Depends on your Ubuntu edition (e.g., 15.10, 15.04, 14.04, and 12.04), and OS type (<i>i386.deb for 32-bit<\/i> and <i>amd64.deb for 64-bit<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>select download the <b>.deb<\/b> packages for <code>mupdf<\/code> and <code>mupdf-tools<\/code> from the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/apps\/+packages?field.name_filter=mupdf&#038;field.status_filter=published&#038;field.series_filter=\" target=\"_blank\">MuPDF in PPA page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally click install the packages via Ubuntu Software Center.<\/p>\n<p><b>How to Use:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The PDF viewer doesn&#8217;t have a launcher. To use it, right-click on the file and select it from the &#8220;Open With&#8221; option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf-450x229.jpg\" alt=\"mupdf\" width=\"450\" height=\"229\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf-450x229.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf-600x305.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To set default, go to file&#8217;s context menu -> Properties -> Open With tab -> select MuPDF from list -> finally click &#8216;Set as default&#8217; button.<\/p>\n<p>For mouse behavior and key bindings run <code>man mupdf<\/code> command in terminal.<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You may remove the PPA by launching <i>Software &#038; Updates<\/i> and then navigate to <i>Other Software<\/i> tab. 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