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# MuPDF-1.25.4

## Introduction to MuPDF

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.3 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://www.mupdf.com/downloads/archive/mupdf-1.25.4-source.tar.gz

- Download MD5 sum: e4e46add0485f4cc879ba954b2444fd9

- Download size: 52 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 253 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)

### MuPDF Dependencies

#### Required

GLU-9.0.3 and Xorg Libraries

#### Recommended

harfBuzz-10.4.0, libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1, OpenJPEG-2.5.3, and cURL-8.12.1

#### Optional

xdg-utils-1.2.1 (runtime), jbig2dec, and MuJS

#### Required (runtime)

a graphical environment

## Installation of MuPDF

Install MuPDF by running the following commands:

    cat > user.make << EOF &&
    USE_SYSTEM_FREETYPE := yes
    USE_SYSTEM_HARFBUZZ := yes
    USE_SYSTEM_JBIG2DEC := no
    USE_SYSTEM_JPEGXR := no # not used without HAVE_JPEGXR
    USE_SYSTEM_LCMS2 := no # need lcms2-art fork
    USE_SYSTEM_LIBJPEG := yes
    USE_SYSTEM_MUJS := no # build needs source anyway
    USE_SYSTEM_OPENJPEG := yes
    USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB := yes
    USE_SYSTEM_GLUT := no # need freeglut2-art fork
    USE_SYSTEM_CURL := yes
    USE_SYSTEM_GUMBO := no
    EOF

    export XCFLAGS=-fPIC                      &&
    make build=release shared=yes verbose=yes &&
    unset XCFLAGS

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make prefix=/usr                        \
         shared=yes                         \
         docdir=/usr/share/doc/mupdf-1.25.4 \
         install                            &&

    ln -sfv libmupdf.so.25.4 /usr/lib/libmupdf.so   &&
    ln -sfv libmupdf.so.25.4 /usr/lib/libmupdf.so.4 &&
    chmod 755 /usr/lib/libmupdf.so.25.4             &&

    ln -sfv mupdf-x11 /usr/bin/mupdf

## Command Explanations

ln -sfv mupdf-x11 /usr/bin/mupdf : This symbolic link chooses between mupdf-gl and mupdf-x11 when running mupdf.

## Contents

Installed Program: mupdf (symlink), mupdf-gl, mupdf-x11, mupdf-x11-curl, muraster, and mutool
Installed Libraries: libmupdf.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/mupdf, /usr/share/doc/mupdf-1.25.4

### Short Descriptions

mupdf | is a program for viewing PDF, XPS, EPUB, and CBZ documents, and various image formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIFF, and TIFF
mupdf-gl | same as mupdf, using an opengl renderer
mupdf-x11 | same as mupdf, using an X Window renderer
muraster | is a program used to perform rasterization tasks with PDF documents
mutool | is a program to perform various operations on PDF files, such as merging and cleaning PDF documents
`libmupdf.so` | contains the mupdf API functions

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