JFBVIEW
jfbview is a PDF and image viewer for the Linux framebuffer. It's fast and has some advanced features including:
- Arbitrary zoom (10% - 1000%) and rotation;
- Table of Contents (TOC) viewer for PDF documents;
- Interactive text search for PDF documents;
- Multi-threaded rendering;
- Asynchronous background pre-caching;
- Customizable multi-threaded caching.
The home page of jfbview is at https://github.com/jichu4n/jfbview.
INSTALLATION
Arch Linux / Manjaro
Install package jfbview
from the AUR, e.g.
yay -S jfbview
Source: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jfbview
Debian / Ubuntu
See Releases for pre-built
.deb
packages for the following environments:
- Debian 10 "buster":
amd64
,i386
,arm64
(ARMv8),armhf
(ARMv7),rpi
(Raspbian on ARMv6) - Debian 9 "stretch":
amd64
,i386
,arm64
,armhf
,rpi
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal:
amd64
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic:
amd64
,i386
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial:
amd64
,i386
To build from source, fetch the source code along with transitive dependencies as described in the Source code section below, then see
packaging/build-package-deb.sh
.
CentOS / Fedora
See Releases for pre-built .rpm
packages for the following environments:
- CentOS 8 and Fedora 28+:
x86_64
,aarch64
(ARMv8)
To build from source, fetch the source code along with transitive dependencies as described in the Source code section below, then see
packaging/build-package-rpm.sh
.
Installing from source
Dependencies
Build-time dependencies:
-
C++ compiler with support for C++14 (GCC 4.9+, Clang 3.5+)
-
CMake 3.3+
Source code
To fetch the source code along with all transitive dependencies with git
:
git clone https://github.com/jichu4n/jfbview.git
cd jfbview
git submodule update --init --recursive
Alternatively, see Releases for
full source code archives including all transitive dependencies
(jfbview-<VERSION>-full-source.zip
).
Build & install
cmake -H. -Bbuild
cd build
make
make install
DOCUMENTATION
See jfbview man page.
ABOUT
jfbview is written by Chuan Ji, and is distributed under the Apache License v2.
HISTORY
jfbview started as a fork of FBPDF by Ali Gholami Rudi with improvements and bug fixes, and was named JFBPDF. The JFBPDF code (in C) grew steadily more convoluted as features were added, and finally was completely rewritten from scratch in November 2012, with added support for images through Imlib2.