Zathura is a lightweight document viewer designed around keyboard-driven navigation. Its minimal interface and Vim-inspired keybindings make it attractive to users who prefer working without extensive toolbars and menus.
The application uses a plugin architecture to support multiple document formats. Depending on the available rendering plugins, Zathura can display PDF, PostScript, DjVu and comic book documents. Its interface concentrates on displaying document content while providing fast access to navigation commands.
Zathura is highly configurable. Users can customise keybindings, colours, page layouts and scrolling behaviour through configuration files. The project’s documentation describes the available commands and configuration options.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Minimal graphical interface with Vim-inspired keyboard navigation.
- Plugin-based support for PDF, PostScript, DjVu and comic book formats.
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts and mouse bindings.
- Supports buffered commands and command completion.
- Automatic reloading when documents change.
- Searches documents and copies selected text.
- Provides bookmarks and navigation history.
- Supports fullscreen and presentation modes.
- Rotates pages and adjusts documents to fit the window or page width.
- Configurable colour schemes and inverted colours.
- Link hints for keyboard-driven navigation.
- Supports encrypted PDF documents.
- Can export images and document attachments.
- SyncTeX integration for working with LaTeX documents.
- Supports executing external commands through configured shortcuts.
Website: pwmt.org
Support:
Developer: Moritz Lipp, Sebastian Ramacher and contributors
License: zlib License
Zathura is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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