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MuPDF is a free and open-source software framework written in C that implements a PDF, XPS, and EPUB parsing and rendering engine. In Gentoo, several packages like app-text/llpp or app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf use it internally for PDF rendering.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for app-text/mupdf A lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C

+javascript	Enable javascript support
+jpeg2k	Support for JPEG 2000, a wavelet-based image compression format
X	Add support for X11
archive	Enable support for CBR and other archive formats using libarchive
opengl	Add support for OpenGL (3D graphics)
ssl	Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security)

Data provided by the Gentoo Package Database · Last update: 2025-04-28 14:03 More information about USE flags

The package provides the following binaries:

• mupdf
• mupdf-gl
• mupdf-x11
• mupdf-x11-curl
• mutool: all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files (draw, clean, extract, info, create, pages, poster, show, run JavaScript, convert, merge)

Emerge

Install app-text/mupdf:

root #emerge --ask app-text/mupdf

External resources

• http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/pst/mupdf.html
• https://packages.debian.org/buster/mupdf
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MuPDF
• https://www.mupdf.com/product/ecosystem.html — Overview of projects, viewers, tools, and libraries based on MuPDF