MUPDF

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: January 12, 2016
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NAME

mupdf - MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer written in portable C

SYNOPSIS

mupdf [options] file

DESCRIPTION

MuPDF is a document viewer that can show PDF, XPS, EPUB, XHTML, CBZ, and various image formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and TIFF.

OPTIONS

A description of each of the supported options is included below.

-p password: Uses the given password to open an encrypted PDF file. The password is tried both as user and owner password.
-r resolution: Changes the initial zoom level, specified as the resolution in dpi. The default value is 72.
-A bits: Changes the anti-aliasing quality, specified as a number of bits between 0 (off) and 8 (best). The default value is 8.
-C RRGGBB: Sets the full-page tint using hexadecimal color syntax. The default value is FFFAF0.
-W width: Page width in points for EPUB layout.
-H height: Page height in points for EPUB layout.
-S size: Font size in points for EPUB layout.
-U CSS-file: User style sheet for EPUB layout.

MOUSE BEHAVIOR

Left mouse button click: A left click on a hyper link follows the link. In presentation mode advances to the next page.
Right mouse button click: In presentation mode goes back to the previous page.
Left mouse button drag: Pan the page. Panning beyond the bottom or top edge will go to the next or previous page.
Right mouse button drag: Select text in an area. On X11, the selected text can be pasted in another application with a middle click. Press Ctrl+C to copy the selected text to the clipboard. On Windows, the selected text will automatically be copied to the clipboard.
Scroll wheel: Pan page up or down. Does not change page when reaching the bottom or top edge.
Shift + Scroll wheel: Pan page left or right.
Control + Scroll wheel: Zoom in or out.

KEY BINDINGS

Page navigation:

. pgdn right space: Go to the next page.
, pgup left b backspace: Go to the previous page.
<, >: Skip back/forth 10 pages at a time.
123g: Go to page 123.
g, G: Go to the first or last page.
m: Mark current page for snap back. Up to 256 pages can be marked.
t: Pop back to the latest mark.
[0-9]m: Save the current page number in the numbered register.
[0-9]t: Go to the page saved in the numbered register.

Zooming and rotating:

+, -: Zoom in or out.
W, H: Zoom page to exactly fit width/height of window.
Z: Zoom page to fit either to width or height of window.
L, R: Rotate page left (counter-clockwise) or right (clockwise).
w: Shrinkwrap window to fit the page.
f: Toggles fullscreen mode.

Panning:

h, j, k, l: Pan page left, down, up, or right.

Searching:

/, ?: Search for text forwards or backwards.
n, N: Find the next/previous search result.

Miscellaneous:

[, ]: Increase/decrease EPUB/XHTML font size.
r: Reload file.
p: Toggle presentation mode.
c: Toggle between color and grayscale rendering.
C: Toggle full-page color tinting.
i: Toggle between normal and inverted color rendering.
S: Save updated document file.
q: Quit.

SIGNALS

SIGHUP: Sending a SIGHUP signal to the mupdf process will also cause the viewed file to be reloaded automatically, for use in e.g. build scripts.