qpdfview

Unofficial build scripts and patches for qpdfview document viewer for macOS. Binaries are provided for the following macOS versions:

• Latest for Apple Silicon — macOS 14 or newer
• Latest for Intel — macOS 12 or newer
• 0.5.0-r2153 for Intel — macOS 11 or newer
• 0.4.99-r2143 for Intel — macOS 10.15 or newer
• 0.4.99-r2126 for Intel — macOS 10.13 or newer

Changelogs can be found at launchpad.net. Unofficial 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.

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.