/qpdfview

qpdfview for macOS

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qpdfview

Unofficial build scripts and patches for qpdfview document viewer for macOS. Binaries provided for macOS 11 and newer. Windows binaries can be found at darealshinji/qpdfview.

Known issues

  • Copying Russian text in PDFs with CP1251-encoded data may return CP1250-interpreted data. As a workaround there is an extra menu option to do this.
  • Poppler is preferred over mupdf when available. As a workaround one can delete qpdfview.app/Contents/MacOS/libqpdfview_pdf.dylib.
  • ARM Macs require Rosetta and code signing to run.

Manual compilation with HomeBrew

  • Be on macOS 10.13 or newer.
  • Install Xcode and HomeBrew.
  • Add poppler-qt6 repo dependency
  • Install the following formulae: qt bzr mupdf-tools mujs lcms2 libspectre freetype harfbuzz poppler-qt6 djvulibre lcms2 imagemagick create-dmg
  • Install the following pips: breezy launchpadlib
  • Run the following commands to export fitz paths: 
    export FITZ_PLUGIN_INCLUDEPATH=$(brew --prefix mupdf-tools)/include
export FITZ_PLUGIN_LINKPATH=$(brew --prefix mupdf-tools)/lib
export FITZ_PLUGIN_LIBS="-lmupdf -lmupdf-third -L$(brew --prefix mujs)/lib -lmujs -L$(brew --prefix freetype)/lib -lfreetype -L$(brew --prefix harfbuzz)/lib -lharfbuzz -lz -L$(brew --prefix jpeg)/lib -ljpeg -L$(brew --prefix jbig2dec)/lib -ljbig2dec -L$(brew --prefix openjpeg)/lib -lopenjp2 -L$(brew --prefix lcms2)/lib -llcms2
  • Execute qpdfview.sh from terminal.