Optimized PDF rendering for Android, based on the open source MuPDF library. This version is our final project for CS194-15 Engineering Parallel Software at UC Berkeley.

About MuPDF

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF, XPS and CBZ viewer and parser/rendering library.

The renderer in MuPDF is tailored for high quality anti-aliased graphics. It renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to within fractions of a pixel for the highest fidelity in reproducing the look of a printed page on screen.

MuPDF is also small, fast, and yet complete. We support PDF 1.7 with transparency, encryption, hyperlinks, annotations, search and many other bells and whistles. MuPDF can also read XPS documents (OpenXPS / ECMA-388), and CBZ (Comic Book archive) files.

MuPDF is written to be both modular and portable; the example applications are merely thin layers on top of the functionality offered by the library, so custom viewers can be easily built for a wide range of platforms. Example viewer applications are supplied for Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS and Android.

MuPDF is deliberately designed to be threading library agnostic, while still supporting multi-threaded operation. In the absence of a thread library it will run single-threaded, but by adding one significant benefits in rendering speed on multi-core platforms can be obtained.

We don't support interactive features such as form filling, javascript and transitions, but such features can be added on by integrators if they so desire.

LICENSE

MuPDF is Copyright 2006-2012 Artifex Software, Inc.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

For commercial licensing please contact sales@artifex.com.

COMPILING

If you are compiling from source you will need several third party libraries: freetype2, jbig2dec, libjpeg, openjpeg, and zlib. We have prepared a package (mupdf-thirdparty.zip) that you can unzip in the mupdf source tree if you don't have them installed on your system.

You must unpack mupdf-thirdparty.zip to build using the Visual Studio or Xcode projects, or the example android makefiles.

DOWNLOAD

The latest development source is available directly from the git repository:

git clone http://mupdf.com/repos/mupdf.git

INSTALLING (UNIX)

Typing "make prefix=/usr/local install" will install the binaries, man-pages, static libraries and header files on your system.

REPORTING BUGS AND PROBLEMS

The MuPDF developers hang out on IRC in the #ghostscript channel on irc.freenode.net.

Report bugs on the ghostscript bugzilla, with MuPDF as the selected component.

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/

If you are reporting a problem with PDF parsing, please include the problematic file as an attachment.