Using with Java

There is also a Java library, which uses JNI to provide access to the C library. The Java classes provide an interface very similar to that available to Javascript. This Java library also powers the Android versions of MuPDF.

Android

If you want to build an application for Android, you have several options. You can base it off one of the existing viewers, or build a new app using the Java library directly.

See the “Using with Android” section to get started using the MuPDF library for Android.

Building

Check out (or download) the MuPDF repository.

The Java bindings are in the platform/java directory.

You can build them using make:

make java

The resulting shared library are in build/java/release. You need to make sure the Java runtime can find the JAR archive (with class-path) and the native library (with java.library.path).

To test the bindings you can use the Java shell:

$ jshell --class-path=build/java/release -R-Djava.library.path=build/java/release
jshell> import com.artifex.mupdf.fitz.*
jshell> var doc = Document.openDocument("pdfref17.pdf")
jshell> System.out.println(doc.countPages())

Examples

There are several more examples in the Java directory.

To build and run the example Swing viewer:

make -C platform/java run