MuPDF
What is MuPDF? Its a pdf reader. If you have to work with PDFs frequently on day to day basis, well this blog post is for you. Well you could say that browsers also does a good job on reading pdfs, why not use them? They do, they really do a good job on reading pdfs, but you don't want your RAM to bit by the browser do you? Well most of the people just install Adobe pdf reader, but let me just tell you that's heavy and slow. If you use PDFs for reading e-books or published papers, MuPDF is for you. Trust me you'll never look back again.
How to download MuPDF?
Go to this MuPDF downloads page and you'll see list of available softwares, and click on this mupdf-1.18.0-windows.zip if you are a windows user, and move it to a directory you want and extract the zip files and you're ready. To make this default pdf reader -> right click on the pdf you want -> open with -> choose another app -> tick the box always open with this application -> select mupdf -> ok.
Do remember that MuPDF doesn't have an onscreen navigation like Adobe's Acrobat or other PDF readers. In order to navigate through pages you have make yourself familiar with few key bindings. They're very similar to vim. Don't worry they are very easy to use and remember. Here is a complete list of all available key bindings:
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