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[Dingo]

an indipendent developer has added pagemarks ability to mupdf

https://github.com/Asido/MuPDF

however, even successfully compiled from sources, I don't see any pagemarks ability

see issue:
https://github.com/Asido/MuPDF/issues/1#issuecomment-5651555

[antiloquax]

I've just come across this package. I'm going to try to build it on my Raspberry Pi.
Compiled it myself in Slack before I saw this thread.

[technosaurus]

I was playing with my musl-libc toolchain and wanted to see if it could build a real app - here is the result, a static build with musl, tinyx11, xext and the 3rd party libs in just over 1mb (resource usage is much lower too <6mb RAM) These are the official 1.0 release, not latest git and package without modification (mubusy only has the command line tools and mupdf is separate)

Edit: this version is now included in mupdf-gtk, command line tools are still here.

[zygo]

technosaurus,

Thanks for these. How is mupdfextract invoked in Puppy?

[technosaurus]

mubusy mupdfextract args

Iirc, this has changed in git. Dropping the mu- from the internal commands, but I could be mistaken. If I get time I'll supply a patch to work like busybox and include mupdf itself.

[zygo]

I see now.

In /bin make a symlink called mupdfextract to mubusy then invoke with

[technosaurus]

a little movement on the frontend side:
goingnuts has added a swallow widget to gtkdialog1 (a backport of an older version to gtk1 that still builds with gtk2)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=636066#636066
could be a nice addon to vlc-gtk too

[Puppyt]

Cheers Dingo and technosaurus, and others, for bringing this into the Puppy fold -
amazing speed and excellent copy'n'paste working in LightHouse 64, I'm using this version, just downloaded: http://www.silverdollarsolutions.com/PuppyLinux/Dingo/mupdf-9.0-lucid.pet. I've been using xpdf and ePDFviewer, but I haven't yet found an equivalent to Foxit Reader (+Wine) that will save highlighting on pdfs - I'm hoping that the modularity of mupdf will enable that feature at some future stage, but until then I guess I'll use xournal as a stop-gap.
+1 vote from me for a simple GUI and printer/CUPS functionality for this beaut little toolset - or could anyone point me to existing solutions in mupdf I haven't spotted yet?
Thanks again

[technosaurus]

just made a frontend to mupdf, no icons, just labeled buttons and entry boxes using gtkdialog1 (it could look really nice with gtkdialog1, but I just wanted to get the buttons working for now and didn't want to mess with icon theming, layouts and the like so it looks pretty bad as is, but the framework is there if anyone wants to beautify it, great)

you can get gtkdialog1 here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=601618#601618

and xdotool here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=639151#639151

TODO
needs support for the command line options in mu_open
-b antialiasing bits 0-8
-p password
-r resolution
beautifications

[technosaurus]

I added some icons and fixed up the layout a bit while making it compatible with gtkdialog1 and latest gtkdialog4.

[technosaurus]

I had to rename 0.4 to uPDF to prevent xdotool from writing to the control window... Will release tomorrow. In the mean time don't use the entry boxes.

[technosaurus]

Since I changed the name, I went ahead and reset the version number to 0.1. searches work now and I fixed a couple of misplaced icons. There was some thought into the gui design - more often we have more horizontal space than vertical and most pdf documents are layed out vertically, so doing the traditional top bar style layout would have taken usable document space, while this layout can use the full screen space.

I don't have any password protected pdfs to test on so if anyone wants that supported, post a small one that I can test.

[goingnuts]

Works great! Thanks!

[technosaurus]

alright thats about enough for now - password support, activates the pdf window after each command, unified gtkdialog1 and gtkdialog4 functionality ... maybe sometime later make it work with multiple pdfs using:
xwininfo -root -int -all |awk '/\.pdf/{print}'
{replace print with print $1 or print $2 for window id or file name}

not till the next version of mupdf comes out though - with save, print and optional javascript support (using v to name a few

[technosaurus]

compacted the format (you can resize for larger entry boxes if need be), switched things around a bit, tweaked stuff, added page number support, a couple icons, better gtkdialog version compatibility