[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-02-24, Sebastian Be?ler <sebastian@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> Am 24.02.2010 21:21, schrieb Neal Hogan:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:19 PM, daid kahl <daidxor@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> [snips from daid / Willie Wong]
>>
>>>
>>>> Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from.
>>>
>>> We seem to be doing well so far!
>>
>> I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too
>> sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick "gentoo mupdf" google had
>> a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what
>> they were talking about.
>
> Shao ~ # eix mupdf
> * app-text/mupdf
>      Available versions:  (~)0.5[1] (~)20090703[2] {+cjk debug jbig jpeg2k}
>      Homepage:            http://ccxvii.net/mupdf
>      Description:         Lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in
> portable C.
>
> [1] "gentoo-china" layman/gentoo-china
> [2] "rion" layman/rion
>
> It is not in portage tree but in those two overlays.

I just built mupdf 0.5 from sources (after emerging ftjam), and
mupdf segfaulted a few pages into the first document I opened.
That and the inability to search are going to make it a
non-starter for me.

It is small and fast, though.

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