Zathura

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Zathura is a free, plugin-based document viewer. Plugins are available for PDF (via poppler or MuPDF), PostScript, DjVu, and EPUB. It was written to be lightweight and controlled with vi-like keybindings.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for app-text/zathura A highly customizable and functional document viewer

`seccomp`	Enable seccomp (secure computing mode) to perform system call filtering at runtime to increase security of programs
`sqlite`	Add support for sqlite - embedded sql database
`synctex`	Use libsynctex to get latex codeline from pdf
`test`	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)

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USE flags for app-text/zathura-meta Meta package for app-text/zathura plugins

`cb`	Install plug-in for ComicBook support
`djvu`	Support DjVu, a PDF-like document format esp. suited for scanned documents
`pdf`	Add general support for PDF (Portable Document Format), this replaces the pdflib and cpdflib flags
`postscript`	Enable support for the PostScript language (often with ghostscript-gpl or libspectre)

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Emerge

Install app-text/zathura and app-text/zathura-meta:

root #emerge --ask app-text/zathura app-text/zathura-meta

Usage

IF you use xdg-open, you might like to set it to be your default PDF application:

user $xdg-mime default zathura.desktop application/pdf