tdf mit Homebrew, Nix, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• for_profiling
• tdf

Projektgeschichte

The public Rust project began in 2024. Version 0.3.0, released in March 2025, rewrote the viewer around MuPDF for better rendering quality and performance; the 0.4 series improved the Kitty image backend and zoom behavior, and version 0.5.0 continued usability and stability work. The current changelog also records forthcoming Windows support.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The official README documents Cargo installation from Git and a Radicle clone identity. The supplied package metadata records Homebrew and Nix packages, widening installation beyond manual Rust builds.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users launch tdf with a document and navigate within a terminal UI. Optional Cargo features add EPUB and CBZ support, while the viewer provides search, hot reload, zooming, panning, color inversion, right-to-left display, and terminal-specific image rendering.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

tdf is notable because it brings graphical document rendering into a terminal-native Rust workflow. Its MuPDF, fontconfig, Clang, Ratatui, and terminal image-protocol dependencies make it an interesting cross-section of systems packaging and modern TUI design.

Zeitleiste

• 2024: The public tdf repository was created.
• 2025-03: Version 0.3.0 rewrote rendering around MuPDF.
• 2025-08: Version 0.4.0 introduced a new Kitty-oriented image backend.
• 2025-12: Version 0.5.0 was released.
• Unreleased: The changelog records Windows support.

Related projects

• Ratatui supplies the terminal UI framework, MuPDF supplies document rendering, and the optional feature set extends the PDF viewer to EPUB and CBZ documents. Radicle provides an alternative source-distribution route.

Quellen

• https://github.com/itsjunetime/tdf#readme
• https://github.com/itsjunetime/tdf/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/itsjunetime/tdf/releases
• source_facts.package-manager