mupdf opened a tricky PDF file

published Dec 07, 2012 08:41   by admin ( last modified Dec 07, 2012 08:41 )

I got sent a tricky PDF file that would not open in:

  • Document Viewer
  • XPDF
  • ePDFViewer
  • gv
  • Chrome's builtin PDF viewer,
  • The Gimp or
  • Okular

on my Ubuntu Linux 12.04. But mupdf opend it fine.

MuPDF is a Free and open source software library written in C that implements a PDF and XPS parsing and rendering engine. It is used primarily to render pages into bitmaps, but also provides support for other operations such as searching and listing the table of contents and hyperlinks.


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