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It builds fine. The toolbars do not "stick" with this version. e.g. apply Find edit and redaction toolbars, restart and it is gone.

Sorry for the delay, but the newest version, 5.6.20, is now available and once again works with the Qt5 libraries in the Arch repos. Let me know if you run into any problems. I cleaned up the dependencies and removed an inexplicable patchelf code modification that I suspect was a relic from a long past version. I experimented with how it works under various DE's and couldn't get the application menu text to display with fvwm2, although the pdf's displayed correctly, so one could still use it as a pdf reader in that environment. Masterpdfeditor fills what is a glaring hole in the linux application arsenal, since everything else I've used (save for mupdf, which is minimalist awesome) leaves something to be desired. I don't particularly care that it's commercial and bought a license to support the developer. If you can afford it, you should too.

@RoderickVM The dependencies are wrong and it's not clear what the patchelf is for. I've been delayed in updating the package by trying to figure out what the PKGBUILD should actually be and have been testing under gnome, mate, kde, and xfce to make sure it will work for a largish number of users. I could not get it to work under fvwm2: pdfs open fine, but the masterpdfeditor menus are empty; i.e. the text is blank. Fortunately the newly released version has fixed the Qt problem, so hopefully I can get an updated package up today.

For 5.6.18:

pkgname=masterpdfeditor
pkgver=5.6.18
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='A complete solution for creation and editing PDF files'
url='https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/'
arch=('x86_64')
license=('custom')
makedepends=('patchelf')
source_x86_64=("https://code-industry.net/public/master-pdf-editor-${pkgver}-qt5.x86_64.tar.gz")
sha1sums_x86_64=('c8bc9586d497fd72fdf64d1bd9af1635f0b98f07')

The new version finally fixes the problem with the new versions of the QT library. It is only necessary to update the version in this PKGBUILD to 5.6.09. It is no longer necessary to install the entire obsolete QT library.

@0_0 I don't have that file, only /opt/master-pdf-editor-5/masterpdfeditor5 and it gives me the same error as @jghodd.

@jghodd I get that error if I run /usr/bin/masterpdfeditor5, but running /opt/master-pdf-editor-5/masterpdfeditor5.sh (mentioned here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721366) works for me.

@RoderickVM still getting a runtime error:

masterpdfeditor5: symbol lookup error: masterpdfeditor5: undefined symbol: _ZN10QMutexPool17globalInstanceGetEPKv, version Qt_5_PRIVATE_API

@pgoetz In order to ensure masterpdfeditor to work, could you please replace the PKGBUILD code with the one below? This uses the official tar.gz file that requires Qt 5.9.8 or later (please see: https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/#get). Installed with no issues using pacman and the application was tested on a 5.7.4-zen1-1-zen kernel.

# Maintainer: Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux dot org>
# Contributor: Jiachen Yang <farseerfc@gmail.com>
# Contributor: Miguel Revilla <yo@miguelrevilla.com>
# Contributor: Ferik <djferik at gmail dot com>
# Updated by: RoderickVM, June 23 2020
# Update 1: Source file name for Qt 5.9.8 or later
# Update 2: SHA1SUM update

pkgname=masterpdfeditor
pkgver=5.4.38
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='A complete solution for creation and editing PDF files'
url='https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/'
arch=('x86_64')
license=('custom')
makedepends=('patchelf')
source_x86_64=("https://code-industry.net/public/master-pdf-editor-${pkgver}-qt5-all.amd64.tar.gz")
sha1sums_x86_64=('bff9d66b531e60603a9221cf6bd2595c6bf602d6')

package() {
  depends=('gcc-libs' 'glibc' 'libgl' 'nspr' 'nss' 'qt5-base' 'qt5-svg' 'sane')

  install -d "$pkgdir"{/opt/,/usr/bin/}
  cp -a --no-preserve=ownership master-pdf-editor-${pkgver%%.*} "$pkgdir/opt/"

  cd "$pkgdir/opt/master-pdf-editor-${pkgver%%.*}"
  ln -sr masterpdfeditor${pkgver%%.*} -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"
  install -Dm644 masterpdfeditor${pkgver%%.*}.desktop -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/"
  install -Dm644 license.txt -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
  patchelf --remove-rpath masterpdfeditor${pkgver%%.*}
}

Hi guys,

I just installed 5.4.38 version and it is working.
I downloaded the latest Ubuntu package and then created .zst with Debtap.
After this, you can install the package with pacman.

Cheers