qpdfview

Unofficial build scripts and patches for qpdfview document viewer for macOS. Binaries provided for macOS 10.15 and newer. 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.
• ARM Macs require Rosetta and code signing to run.

Manual compilation with MacPorts

• Be on macOS 10.13 or newer.
• Install Xcode and MacPorts.
• Install the following ports: bzr qt5 mupdf libspectre poppler-qt5 djvulibre imagemagick
• Execute qpdfview.sh from terminal.

Manual compilation with HomeBrew

• Be on macOS 10.13 or newer.
• Install Xcode and HomeBrew.
• Add poppler-qt6 repo dependency
• Install the following ports: bzr qt mupdf-tools libspectre poppler-qt6 djvulibre imagemagick
• 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 -lz"
  

• Execute qpdfview.sh from terminal.