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| author | Tor Andersson <tor@ghostscript.com> | 2009-07-01 20:11:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Tor Andersson <tor@ghostscript.com> | 2009-07-01 20:11:33 +0200 |
| commit | 2336ba8dd9cbc7b4ff3fe25451b15a1037b6a609 (patch) | |
| tree | 6535c8d3d632ed8cb80b30053eb196b456e96ba8 /README | |
| parent | 19db4480d07bb4cff2004fd1a9497017d0cd141d (diff) | |
| download | mupdf-2336ba8dd9cbc7b4ff3fe25451b15a1037b6a609.tar.xz | |
Update README file with text from the new web page.
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@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@ ABOUT -MuPDF is a PDF parsing library and viewer. -Fitz is the graphics library it uses. -The viewer has ports for X11 and Windows. -For Windows, there is also a Mozilla plugin version of the viewer. +MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. -The latest source can be found -at http://ccxvii.net/mupdf/ +The renderer in MuPDF is tailored for high quality anti-aliased graphics. MuPDF renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to within fractions of a pixel for the highest fidelity in reproducing the look of a printed page on screen. -COPYRIGHT +MuPDF has a small footprint. A binary that includes the standard Roman fonts is only one megabyte. A build with full CJK support (including an Asian font) is approximately five megabytes. -MuPDF and Fitz -- PDF parsing, rendering and viewing toolkit. +MuPDF has support for all non-interactive PDF 1.7 features, and the toolkit provides a simple API for accessing the internal structures of the PDF document. Example code for navigating interactive links and bookmarks, encrypting PDF files, extracting fonts, images, and searchable text, and rendering pages to image files is provided. + +LICENSE + +MuPDF -- PDF parsing, rendering and viewing toolkit. Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc. @@ -74,15 +74,18 @@ to add the following arguments to jam: $ jam '-sHAVE_JBIG2DEC=yes' '-sHAVE_JASPER=yes' -To build the X11 version under MacOS X, add: - - $ jam '-sHAVE_X11=yes' - If you want a crippled version without the builtin CJK fonts and data files, to shave a few megabytes off the binary size, add: $ jam '-sDEFINES=NOCJK' +DOWNLOAD + +The latest development source is available directly from the darcs repository. +Browse the source or use the following command line to check out the source: + + darcs get http://ccxvii.net/repos/mupdf + INSTALLING There is no install. Just copy the resulting binary from the build |