Install MuPDF 1.10 on Linux Ubuntu Systems. MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and E-book viewer for Linux Ubuntu Systems. MuPDF supports PDF 1.7 with transparency, encryption, hyperlinks, annotations, searching and more. MuPDF also reads many other document and e-book formats, such as XPS, OpenXPS, CBZ, EPUB and FictionBook 2.
MuPDF 1.10 is the latest version of PDF viewer. It brings FictionBook (FB2) e-book support, mutool convert: a new document conversion tool and interface, hyperlink support in EPUB. Its interface has also been revamped with simplified PDF page, xobject, and annotation internals with an improved PDF annotation editing interface (still a work in progress). The document writer interface has also been tweaked. The latest release brings performance fixes, i.e. reduced memory use with reduced code size when building with few specific subsets.
Below is the complete list of changes and new features:
Headline changes:
- FictionBook (FB2) e-book support.
- Simple SVG parser (a small subset of SVG only).
- mutool convert: a new document conversion tool and interface.
- Multi-threaded rendering in mudraw.
- Luratech decoders for JBIG2 and JPEG2000 (commercial releases only).
- Optional JPEG-XR support (not included by default for security reasons).
- Updated base 14 fonts from URW.
- New CJK font with language specific variants.
- Hyperlink support in EPUB.
Reduced memory use:
- New tool muraster: example printer driver with limited RAM usage and automatic banding.
- Alpha channel is now optional in pixmaps.
- More aggressive purging of cached objects.
- Partial image decoding for lower memory use when banding.
Reduced code size when building with a subset of features:
- Reduced default set of built-in CMap tables to the minimum required.
- FZ_ENABLE_PDF, _XPS, _JS, to disable features at compile time.
- Function level linking.
Interface changes and cleanups:
- Dropped pdf object generation numbers from public interfaces.
- Simplified PDF page, xobject, and annotation internals.
- Closing and freeing devices and writers are now separate steps.
- Improved PDF annotation editing interface (still a work in progress).
- Document writer interface.
- Banded image writer interface.
Mobile viewers:
- New JNI interfaces to match capabilities of ‘mutool run’ javascript.
- New android and desktop java examples using new JNI interface.
Install MuPDF 1.10
MuPDF 1.10 can be installed on Ubuntu Systems and Ubuntu Derivatives via UbuntuHandbook PPA. Run the following commands in Terminal to install the latest release of MuPDF 1.10 on Ubuntu:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install mupdf mupdf-tools
Once installed, you can open the PDF documents using the MuPDF.