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`tdf`

A terminal-based PDF viewer.

Designed to be performant, very responsive, and work well with even very large PDFs. Built with ratatui.

What it looks like

Features:

Asynchronous Rendering
Searching
Hot reloading
Responsive details about rendering/search progress
Reactive layout

To Build

First, you need to install the system dependencies. This includes packages such as (but not limited to) cairo, gtk, and poppler. If you're on linux, these will probably show up in your package manager as something like libcairo-devel or cairo-dev.

If it turns out that you're missing one of these, it will fail to compile and tell you what library you're missing. Find the development package for that library in your package manager, install it, and try to build again. Now, the important steps:

Get the rust toolchain from rustup.rs
Clone the repo and cd into it
Run cargo build --release

Why in the world would you use this?

I dunno. Just for fun, mostly.

Can I contribute?

Yeah, sure. Please do.

Please note, though, that all contributions will be treated as licensed under MPL-2.0. This is so that we can relicense to MPL-2.0 at some point in the future if we manage to move away from poppler as a backend (since that is the only dependency, at time of writing, which requires the GPLv3 license).