mupdf - MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer written in portable C
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Description
MuPDF is a document viewer that can show PDF,XPS,EPUB,XHTML,CBZ, and various image formats such as
PNG,JPEG,GIF, and TIFF.Environment
BROWSER
When mupdf opens a link it first uses BROWSER to browse the link and falls back to "xdg-open" if
BROWSER is not defined.
Key Bindings
Page navigation:
.pgdnspace
Go to the next page.
,pgupb
Go to the previous page.
123g Go to page 123.
g,G Go to the first or last page.
m Mark current page for snap back. Up to 256 pages can be marked.
t Pop back to the latest mark.
[0–9]m Save the current page number in the numbered register.
[0–9]t Go to the page saved in the numbered register.
Zooming and rotating:
+,- Zoom in or out.
W,H Zoom page to exactly fit width/height of window.
Z Zoom page to fit either to width or height of window.
z Reset zoom level.
[,] Rotate page left (counter-clockwise) or right (clockwise).
w Shrinkwrap window to fit the page.
f Toggles fullscreen mode.
Panning:
h,left,j,k,l,right
Pan page left, down, up, or right.
Searching:
/,? Search for text forwards or backwards.
n,N Find the next/previous search result.
Miscellaneous:
<,> Increase/decrease EPUB/XHTML font size.
r Reload file.
p Toggle presentation mode.
P Displays the current page number temporarily.
c Toggle between color and grayscale rendering.
C Toggle full-page color tinting.
I Toggle between normal and inverted color rendering.
E Toggle ICC color mode.
e Toggle spot color mode.
A Set bit of anti-aliasing to use. The default is 8. 0 means no anti-aliasing, 9 means no anti-
aliasing, centre-of-pixel rule, 10 means no anti-aliasing, any-part-of-a-pixel rule.
P Show page number and total number of pages.
S Save updated document file.
q Quit.
Mouse Behavior
Leftmousebuttonclick
A left click on a hyper link follows the link. In presentation mode advances to the next page.
Rightmousebuttonclick
In presentation mode goes back to the previous page.
Leftmousebuttondrag
Pan the page. Panning beyond the bottom or top edge will go to the next or previous page.
Rightmousebuttondrag
Select text in an area. On X11, the selected text can be pasted in another application with a
middle click. Press Ctrl+C to copy the selected text to the clipboard. On Windows, the selected
text will automatically be copied to the clipboard.
Scrollwheel
Pan page up or down. Does not change page when reaching the bottom or top edge.
Shift+Scrollwheel
Pan page left or right.
Control+Scrollwheel
Zoom in or out.
Name
mupdf - MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer written in portable C
Options
A description of each of the supported options is included below.
-ppassword
Uses the given password to open an encrypted PDF file. The password is tried both as user and
owner password.
-rresolution
Changes the initial zoom level, specified as the resolution in dpi. The default value is 72.
-Abits
Changes the anti-aliasing quality, specified as a number of bits between 0 (off) and 8 (best).
The default value is 8.
-CRRGGBB
Sets the full-page tint using hexadecimal color syntax. The default value is FFFAF0.
-Wwidth
Page width in points for EPUB layout.
-Hheight
Page height in points for EPUB layout.
-Ssize
Font size in points for EPUB layout.
-UCSS-file
User style sheet for EPUB layout.
See Also
mutool(1).
Signals
SIGHUP Sending a SIGHUP signal to the mupdf process will also cause the viewed file to be reloaded
automatically, for use in e.g. build scripts.
Synopsis
mupdf [options] file[page_number]
