NAME¶

apvlv — PDF/DJVU/EPUB/HTML/TXT/FB2/CZW viewer with vim-like behaviour

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

apvlv is a PDF/DJVU/EPUB/HTML/TXT/FB2/CZW viewer, which behaves like vim.

OPTIONS¶

-c file

Load configuration from file instead of the default ~/.apvlvrc

-h

Show help message and exit

-v

Show version and exit

COMMANDS¶

The following command keys can be used inside apvlv. Some of them may be prefixed by a number (as in pressing "13G"), this is indicated by a count in their description. Unless noted otherwise, the default value for the number is 1.

o

Display file chooser to open a PDF/DJVU/EPUB/HTML/TXT file

O

Select a directory to display

t

Display file chooser to open a PDF/DJVU/EPUB/HTML/TXT file in a new tab

T

Select a directory to display in a new tab

R

Reload the current file

r

Rotate the document clockwise by 90 degrees

G

Show page number count

gt

Show next tab

gT

Show previous tab

PageDown, C-f

Go forward count pages

PageUp, C-b

Go backward count pages

C-d

Go forward count half pages

C-u

Go backward count half pages

H

Scroll to page head

M

Scroll to page middle

L

Scroll to page bottom

s

skip some pages count

C-p, Up, k

Scroll up count units

C-n, Down, j

Scroll down count units

Backspace, Left, h

Scroll left count units

Space, Right, l

Scroll right count units

/ string

Search forwards for string

? string

Search backwards for string

f

Toggle between fullscreen and window mode

zi

Zoom in

zo

Zoom out

zw

Zoom to fit window width

zh

Zoom to fit window height

m char

Mark the current position to char, so that it can be recalled by pressing char

' char

Return to the mark position char

''

Return to the last position

q

Close the current window

ZZ

quit the viewer with ZZ, like Vim

c

toggle directory display

SETTINGS¶

These can be set in ~/.apvlvrc with "set setting [= value]".

fullscreen = yes/no

Enable/Disable fullscreen

width = int

Default window width

height = int

Default window height

fix_width = int

fixed width

fix_height = int

fixed height

defaultdir = path

Default directory for the open dialogue

zoom = mode

Set default zoom level

normal

The application sets the default zoom value

fitwidth

Fit pages to window width

fitheight

Fit pages to window height

float

1.0 for 100%, 2.0 for 200%, etc.

continuous = yes/no

Show PDF/DJVU/EPUB/HTML/TXT pages continuously or not.

autoscrollpage = yes/no

Enable/Disable scrolling the pages when hitting a page tail/head

noinfo = yes/no

Disable/Enable the usage of ~/.apvlvinfo

max_info = int

Max file information will be saved, default is 100

scrollbar = yes/no

Set show scrollbar or not

wrapscan = yes/no

Set wrapscan to search text or not

doubleclick = action

Set default double click action

none

Selection nothing

word

Selection a word under the cursor to clipboard

line

Selection a line under the cursor to clipboard

page

Selection a page under the cursor to clipboard

guioptions = mTsS

Weather display menu, toolbar, status and status tool.

.pdf:engine = MuPDF/Poppler/QtPdf

Which engine to render .pdf file

.epub:engine = MuPDF/Web

Which engine to render .epub file

.fb2:engine = MuPDF/Web

Which engine to render .fb2 file

ocr:lang = eng+chi_sim

Pretrained languages which tesseract load to process

notes:dir = dir

Directory to save ebook notes

autoreload = int

If auto reload document after some seconds

inverted = yes/no

If use inverted mode for pdf page

background = color

Set background color

PROMPT¶

Like the COMMANDS, but prefixed with a colon:

:h[elp]

Display the help document

:q[uit]

Close the current window

:o[pen] file

Open file

:doc file

Load file into the current window

:TOtext [file]

Translate file (or the current page) to a text file

:pr[int]

Print the current document

:tabnew

Create a new tab

:sp

Horizontally split the current window

:vsp

Vertically split the current window

:fp, :forwardpage [int]

Go forward int pages (1 by default)

:bp, :prewardpage [int]

Go backward int pages (1 by default)

:g, :goto int

Go to page int

:z[oom] mode

Set zoom to mode (see "set zoom" in SETTINGS)

:int

Go to page int

:directory

toggle directory display

AUTHORS¶

apvlv was written by Alf <naihe2010@126.com>.

This manual page was originally written by Stefan Ritter <xeno@thehappy.de> for the Debian project (but may be used by others), and was rewritten more beautifully by Daniel Friesel <foobar@derf.homelinux.org>.