MuPDF – lightweight PDF and XPS viewer for Linux Ubuntu. How To Install Lightweight PDF Viewer “MuPDF 1.8” on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Derivatives.
MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer. MuPDF is also small, fast, and yet complete. It supports PDF 1.7 with transparency, encryption, hyperlinks, annotations, searching and more. It also reads XPS and OpenXPS documents. MuPDF is written modularly, so features can be added on by integrators if they so desire.
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. Since the 1.2 release of MuPDF, we have optional support for interactive features such as form filling, javascript and transitions.
Install MuPDF Ubuntu
MuPDF 1.8 RC1 (2015-10-22) is the latest version of the PDF Viewer. It has been released with the following changes:
Headline changes:
- New OpenGL-based barebones desktop viewer.
- New URW fonts with greek and cyrillic.
- 64-bit file support.
- Ghostscript proofing mode (source only; not in shipped binaries).
EPUB improvements:
- User style sheets.
- GIF images (also for CBZ).
- Table of contents.
- CJK text.
- Page margins.
- Many bug fixes.
Bug fixes:
- Updated FreeType to version 2.6.1.
- Various font substitution bug fixes.
- Fix setjmp/longjmp behaviour which could cause optimizing compilers to misbehave.
MuPDF PDF Viewer can be easily installed via PPA on Ubuntu Systems. Run the following commands to install MuPDF Viewer on Linux Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mupdf mupdf-tools
You can also download the MuPDF PPA from the link given below
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+archive/ubuntu/apps/+packages?field.name_filter=mupdf&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=
Please note that MUPDF viewer doesn’t have a launcher. To open and use it, right-click on the file and select the “Open With” option and select MuPDF.
Uninstall MuPDF
If you want to uninstall and remove mupdf from Ubuntu Systems, run the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove mupdf mupdf-tools
You can also remove the PPA via Software & Updates. Open Software & Updates, go to Other Software tab and remove remove MuPDF. It can also be removed via Ubuntu Software Center.