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and Windows viewer, and a set of command-line tools for batch rendering (mutool draw), examining the file structure (mutool show), and rewriting files (mutool clean). Later versions also have a JavaScript interpreter (mutool run) that allows running scripts to create and edit PDF files.
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of the library, Artifex claimed that the GPL version would be unsuitable for "commercial use" as the complete, aggregated product (PDFviewer, WebOS) would have to be placed under GPL. Artifex voluntarily dismissed the suit in 2011.
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The focus of MuPDF is on speed, small code size, and high-quality anti-aliased rendering. Since the 1.2 release, MuPDF has optional support for interactive features such as form filling,
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A number of free software applications use MuPDF to render PDF documents, the most notable being
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or under a proprietary license meant by Artifex for commercial use. When Palm included MuPDF in
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Licensing Information IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT DISTRIBUTING SOFTWARE FROM ARTIFEX
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graphics library, but has instead become the rendering engine powering MuPDF.
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Independent parties have ported the library to many platforms, including the
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for violating their copyrights on MuPDF. At that time Artifex offered MuPDF
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In 2005, the first version of MuPDF with the new Fitz library was released.
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In 2002, Tor Andersson started work on MuPDF based on the
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parsing and rendering engine. It is used primarily to
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