Zathura is a free, plugin-based

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. Plugins are available for

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(via poppler or MuPDF),

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and DjVu. It was written to be lightweight and controlled with vi-like keybindings. Zathura's customizability makes it well-liked by many Linux users. Zathura has official packages available in

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, Gentoo,

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, GuixSD, and an unofficial

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package provided by MacPorts. Zathura was named after the 2002 book ''

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'' and the 2005 film '' Zathura: A Space Adventure''.

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 added to the

Linux distribution. 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

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, 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 customized using a

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. Zathura has the ability to execute external

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commands. It can be opened in tabs using . Zathura implements an optional sandbox mode using

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filter to restrict the consequences of potential vulnerabilities.

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