Developer(s) pwmt | Development status Active | |
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Original author(s) Initial release September 18, 2009 (2009-09-18) Stable release 0.3.6 / April 18, 2016 (2016-04-18) Repository git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura.git | ||
Zathura is a free, plugin-based document viewer. Plugins are available for PDF (via poppler or MuPDF), PostScript, DjVu, and EPUB. It was written to be lightweight and controlled with vim-like keybindings. Zathura's customizability makes it well-liked by many Linux users.
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Zathura has a mature, well-established codebase and a large development team. It has official packages available in Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, OpenBSD, OpenSUSE, Source Mage GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, and Mac OS X.
Zathura was named after the film of the same name.
History
Development on Zathura began on 12 August 2009. On 18 September 2009, version 0.0.1 was announced to the Arch Linux community.
Zathura has been an official Arch Linux package since April 2010. Same year, by the end of July it was imported into Source Mage test grimoire. It has been an official Debian package since at least 2011, as part of Debian Squeeze.
Features
Zathura automatically reloads documents. When working in compiled documents such as those written in LaTeX, Zathura will refresh the output whenever compilation takes place. Zathura has the option of enabling inverse search (using "synctex").
Zathura can adjust the document to best-fit or to fit width, and it can rotate pages. It can view pages side-by-side and has a fullscreen mode. Pages can also be recolored to have a black background and white foreground.
Zathura can search for text and copy text to the primary X selection. It supports bookmarks and can open encrypted files.
The behavior and appearance of Zathura can be customised using a configuration file. Zathura has the ability to execute external shell commands. It can be opened in tabs using tabbed.