Xreader

Xreader is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single page document formats like PDF and Postscript. For more general information about Xreader please visit our website at https://github.com/linuxmint/xreader.

This software is licensed under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2 from June 1991 (see COPYING).

Installation

• This package may be available through your system's package manager. This is the recommended method of installation.
• The latest unstable version is available for Linux Mint and LMDE in the releases section.
• See INSTALL for instructions for building from source.

Hacking

Our Coding Guidelines can be found under https://linuxmint-developer-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guidelines.html

Optional Backend Libraries

• Poppler for PDF Backend [ http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ ]
• DjVuLibre for DjVu viewing [ http://djvulibre.djvuzone.org/ ]
• Rar for viewing CBR comics [ http://www.rarsoft.com/ ]
• libgxps for XPS documents [ https://wiki.gnome.org/libgxps ]
• GhostScript for Postscript Backend [ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ ]
• What about libspectre [ http://libspectre.freedesktop.org/wiki/ ]
• TIFF Backend
• DVI Backend
• Pixbuf Backend
• Comics Backend
• Impress Backend

Optional Programs

• Freeware unrar for viewing CBR comics [ http://www.rarsoft.com/ ]
• Gna! unrar (unrar-free) can be used too, though it can't decompress rar v3.0 files [ http://gna.org/projects/unrar/ ]
• unzip for viewing CBZ comics [ http://www.info-zip.org ]
• p7zip for viewing CB7 comics [ http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ ]