zathura, lightweight PDF and functional document viewer

Published: 19 January 2014
on channel: Archived Yu-Jie Lin
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A viewer commented on my PDF.js video [1] and mentioned zathura [2].

It's quite a nice program I must say, Vi-style keybinding is very easy to get started with, performance is good. Much more functions than Xpdf has and I don't even need to use mouse.

zathura is a document viewer, which means it can view more than one file format, not just PDF. In fact, the PDF viewing is by the plugin, zathura-pdf-poppler. There is also another backend, zathura-pdf-mupdf. It also has Comic book, DjVu, PostScript plugins.

I chose poppler because the library is already installed and required by some package on my system. You might want to check out mupdf, it might be lighter.

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Licensed under the zlib License

Recorded with zathura 0.2.1, zathura-pdf-poppler 0.2.1

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[1]:    • Mozilla PDF.js viewer (builtin Firefo...  
[2]: http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/

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PDFs seen in the video:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia...
http://www.ecma-international.org/pub...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia...


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