ABOUT MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. 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. 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 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. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . PREREQUISITES Before compiling MuPDF you need to install thirdy party dependencies. zlib libjpeg freetype2 There are a few optional dependencies that you don't strictly need. jbig2dec OpenJPEG MuPDF uses the Perforce Jam build tool. You need the Perforce version 2.5 or later. FTJam will also work. If you do not have a compiled binary for your system, you can find the Jam and FTJam web sites here: http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html http://www.freetype.org/jam/index.html I use Mingw and MSYS to compile for Windows. If you use anything else, you are on your own. COMPILING If all of that is installed, compiling should be a cinch. Issue the command 'jam' in the root of the project directory. Add a parameter '-sBUILD=release' or '-sBUILD=profile' to build release or profile versions. $ jam '-sBUILD=release' If the build fails because it cannot find header files or libraries, look first in Jamrules to see if there is anything wrong with the search paths or compiler flags for your system. To compile in the optional jbig2 and jpeg2000 support, you need to add the following arguments to jam: $ jam '-sHAVE_JBIG2DEC=yes' '-sHAVE_OPENJPEG=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 directory to a directory in your path. REPORTING BUGS AND PROBLEMS Report bugs on the ghostscript bugzilla, with MuPDF as the selected component. http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ If you are reporting a problem with PDF parsing, please include the problematic file as an attachment. -- tor