{"id":7367,"date":"2017-12-15T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7367"},"modified":"2017-12-15T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:50:47","slug":"mupdf-1-12-0-released-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/mupdf-1-12-0-released-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"MuPDF 1.12.0 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mupdf-icon1.png\" alt=\"MuPDF Ubuntu 16.04\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5810\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MuPDF, a lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer, reached 1.12.0 release recently. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>MuPDF 1.12.0 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LCMS2 library for color management.<\/li>\n<li>CMYK rendering with overprint simulation.<\/li>\n<li>Spot color rendering.<\/li>\n<li>Reworked structured text API.<\/li>\n<li>Faster text searching.<\/li>\n<li>New semantic XHTML output format.<\/li>\n<li>New layout preserving HTML output format.<\/li>\n<li>Improved non-AA rendering with new scan converter.<\/li>\n<li>Improved support for LARGEFILE and TIFF<\/li>\n<li>Add PCLm, and PSD output.<\/li>\n<li>New &#8220;mutool trace&#8221; tool.<\/li>\n<li>New &#8220;mutool sign&#8221; tool (work in progress).<\/li>\n<li>And lots of bug fixes, See <a href=\"https:\/\/mupdf.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">NEWS<\/a> for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install MuPDF 1.12.0 in Ubuntu \/ Linux Mint:<\/h4>\n<p>Besides building the tool from source, there&#8217;s an unofficial PPA with the packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T or searching for &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from start menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>\n<p>Type in password (no visual feedback due to security reason) when it asks and hit Enter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mupdf-unofficial-ppa-600x76.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"76\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mupdf-unofficial-ppa-600x76.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mupdf-unofficial-ppa-450x57.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mupdf-unofficial-ppa.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then install <code>mupdf<\/code> and <code>mupdf-tools<\/code> packages either via Synaptic Package Manager or by running following commands in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install mupdf mupdf-tools<\/pre>\n<p>If you have a previous release installed, simply launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> to upgrade the tool after checking for updates.<\/p>\n<p>To use the PDF\/XPS viewer, right-click on your file and select open with MuPDF. You can also set MuPDF as default in the Properties window.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf-600x305.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"305\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf-600x305.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf-450x229.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To restore MuPDF to the stock version available in your Ubuntu\u2019s main archive, run command in terminal to purge the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MuPDF, a lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer, reached 1.12.0 release recently. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives. MuPDF 1.12.0 release highlights: LCMS2 library for color management. CMYK rendering with overprint simulation. Spot color rendering. Reworked structured text API. Faster text searching. New semantic XHTML output [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1264,1265],"class_list":["post-7367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-mupdf","tag-pdf-viewer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}