MuPDF is a library that for parsing and rendering several page-based document formats including PDF, XPS, and ePub. It contains both a graphics library called Fitz along with document-specific renderers that use Fitz as their rendering engine.

This library is used by

• SumatraPDF

Notes

Documentation for the library is at: http://mupdf.com/docs/.

MuPDF uses the prefix fz_ (short for Fitz) as the namespace for its symbols.

Since MuPDF is written in C, it does not have language-level exception handling support. Instead it implements library-specific macros that provide try ... catch catch functionality, namely fz_try ... fz_catch.

When writing bindings to accomodate for this it is necessary to create wrappers so that exceptions in MuPDF are translated to exceptions in the host language.

• http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/FFI-and-setjmplongjmp,1

Example of other programs that have bindings:

koreader

• https://github.com/koreader/koreader-base/blob/master/ffi/mupdf.lua
• https://github.com/koreader/koreader-base/blob/master/ffi-cdecl/mupdf_decl.c
• https://github.com/koreader/koreader-base/blob/master/wrap-mupdf.h
• https://github.com/koreader/koreader-base/blob/master/ffi/mupdf_h.lua

PyMuPDF

• https://github.com/rk700/PyMuPDF

More info

• MuPDF Explored (PDF)
• Embedding MuPDF