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This is the fbpdf package but only built with poppler backend. That is, the mupdf version is not built.

The idea is to provide a small package (around 50KB) without static-linked mupdf library in fbpdf. The executable name is kept as fbpdf2, as the author did to distinguish from mupdf-based fbpdf. That happens to avoid the conflict with fbida package.

(Edit: typo)

@m040601, I might adopt and update that package, even though I am actually not that familiar with those things (either framebuffer or maintaining packages).

Renaming it to "fbpdf-mupdf" ? So that we could have better coordination and two clean separate alternatives, one for only "mupdf" and only for only "poppler" ?

As for this, the Makefile (see the source code on Github) does not build the poppler-based executable by default, so I guess no need to rename it. (meaning only build fbpdf and fbdjvu in that package)

@OliverLew

The other PKGBUILD "fbpdf-git", (the one using mupdf) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fbpdf-git , was finally released and is now free to adopt,

...I have triggered this unmaintained package to become orphaned, so a new volunteer can adopt it and update it...

Oliver, would you be interested in also adopting it ? Renaming it to "fbpdf-mupdf" ?

So that we could have better coordination and two clean separate alternatives, one for only "mupdf" and only for only "poppler" ?

Maintained by you, who understands well these framebuffer things and knows what he is doing.

Thanks in advance.

The source code by default builds two related targets at the same time: fbpdf and fbpdf2, based on mupdf and poppler, respectively. I only omitted the mupdf version, so the one left happens to be fbpdf2.

Thanks for providing this PKGBUILD.

Very nice to see more people interested in these framebuffer goodies.

Pitty that the fbpdf (mupdf based) was abandoned, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fbpdf-git

Good thing that you remembered to rename the binary installed by "fbpdf-poppler-git", so that it doesnt clash with other similar:

-rwxr-xr-x  0 root   root    23000 May 11 01:08 usr/bin/fbdjvu
-rwxr-xr-x  0 root   root    23088 May 11 01:08 usr/bin/fbpdf2

For others:

There is this, "fbida" official Arch package (not AUR PKGBUILD), https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/

The fbida project contains a few applications for viewing and editing images, with the main focus being photos. The applications are:

    fbi - This is a image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.
    fbgs - A wrapper script for viewing ps/pdf files on the framebuffer console using fbi.
    ida - This is a X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images. Some basic editing functions are available too.
    exiftran - command line tool to do lossless transformations of JPEG images. Works much like jpegtran, but unlike jpegtran it does not ignore the EXIF data ;)
    thumbnail.cgi - Small and fast CGI script (written in C) to extract EXIF thumbnails from jpeg images and send them to the web browser.

$ pacman -Si fbida

Repository      : community
Name            : fbida
Version         : 2.14-3
Description     : Few applications to display and elementary edit images: fbi, fbgs,
                  ida, exiftran
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/
Licenses        : GPL2
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : libexif  libepoxy  poppler-glib  libwebp  mesa
Optional Deps   : ghostscript: to use fbgs
                  openmotif: for ida
                  libxpm: for ida
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 184.73 KiB
Installed Size  : 578.26 KiB
Packager        : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Wed 24 Mar 2021 06:42:26 PM WET
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

I dont know why but they made it so, that it also installs this "undocumented" "/usr/bin/fbpdf" binary.

pacman -Ql fbida | grep bin

fbida /usr/bin/
fbida /usr/bin/exiftran
fbida /usr/bin/fbgs
fbida /usr/bin/fbi
fbida /usr/bin/fbpdf
fbida /usr/bin/ida

This is the fbpdf package but only built with poppler backend. That is, the mupdf version is not built.

The idea is to provide a small package (around 50KB) without static-linked mupdf library in fbpdf. The executable name is kept as fbpdf2, as the author did to distinguish from mupdf-based fbpdf. That happens to avoid the conflict with fbida package.

(Edit: typo)