zathura pdf viewer displays thick black bars around pdf files

crxxn · 2015-04-21 14:05:21

Hello everybody,

I'm confronted with a zathura problem since a few days that I can't get fixed on my own:
Previously, zathura displayed pdf files always in a way that they filled out zathuras X-window completely, except of course if I zoomed out so much the document became too small.
This is the sane behaviour someone would expect from a document viewer.

By now, I get thick black borders around my pdf files on on the top, the bottom, the left and the right side of the document within zathuras X-window.
These borders are approximately 1,5 cm wide so this is really space-consuming and annoying on a 14" laptop screen.
I can get rid of the left and right bars by pressing "S", what causes zathura to fit the document width to its window width, but this isn't always useful since
texts may become unreadble small in an unzoomed view.

I am using zathura 0.3.2-1, zathura-pdf-mupdf 0.2.7-1, xorg-server 1.17.1-5 and awesome 3.4.6-1 on a lenovo t400.
Downgrading zathura and zathura-pdf-mupdf didn't fix the problem.

Hopefully someone of you has found a fix to that issue.

Thanks in advance,
crxxn

Mercader1902 · 2015-04-21 14:12:13

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1518406

The git version from AUR works fine.

karol · 2015-04-21 15:40:57

According to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=196242

newbcake wrote:

Upgrading to the AUR git versions of zathura and the plugins removed the top and bottom paddings, but not those on the sides.

pdexter · 2015-04-21 15:55:29

zathura is flagged out of date [1], I'm pretty sure it just needs to be updated on the official repositories

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … 4/zathura/

HisDudeness · 2015-05-21 08:20:58

Mercader1902 wrote:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1518406
The git version from AUR works fine.

I'm trying to install zathura-git, but girara-git gives problems, both if trying with yaourt or makepkg.

==> Making package: girara-git 0.2.2.r2.gcf8389d-1 (Thu May 21 12:15:34 CEST 2015)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Cloning girara git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '/home/dude/source/girara-git/girara'...
fatal: unable to connect to pwmt.org:
pwmt.org[0: 95.129.55.168]: errno=Connection refused

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading girara git repo
    Aborting...

karol · 2015-05-22 09:48:22

https://pwmt.org/projects/girara/

$ git clone git://pwmt.org/girara.git
Cloning into 'girara'...
fatal: remote error: access denied or repository not exported: /girara.git

but

$ asp export girara                                                                                                  
remote: Counting objects: 128, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (92/92), done.
remote: Total 128 (delta 32), reused 103 (delta 18)
Receiving objects: 100% (128/128), 15.78 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (32/32), done.
From git://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community
 * branch            packages/girara -> FETCH_HEAD
 * [new branch]      packages/girara -> community/packages/girara
==> exporting girara:trunk

gave me girara 0.2.4 - the latest one, even though it's not yet in the community repo.

HisDudeness · 2015-05-23 08:48:25

I have installed girara using the PKGBUILD asp gave me, did the same with zathura, installed zathura-pdf-mupdf from the official repos, but invoking zathura on a pdf just opens a blank instance of it, with no error messages displayed. Instead, installing zathura from the repos after getting girara from asp gives the error

zathura: error while loading shared libraries: libgirara-gtk3.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

HisDudeness · 2015-05-23 08:57:06

Newbie question: can I give a git package a non-git dependency? i.e., after having installed the latest girara version, can I install zathura-git, which wants girara-git, feeding him the girara I just installed instead?

Last edited by HisDudeness (2015-05-23 08:57:23)

HisDudeness · 2015-05-23 09:47:20

I have written in pwmt IRc channel and mlq just solved the problem! girara git repository is now working again. I installed zathura-git, but with both poppler and mupdf opening a pdf with zathura now gets me the following error:

error: could not load plugin /usr/lib/zathura/pdf.so (libgirara-gtk3.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
error: Unknown file type: 'application/pdf'

And a blank zathura session is opened. Any clue?

karol · 2015-05-23 11:02:36

Was the issue with the repo a problem on their side?
Post the PKGBUILD you're using for girara-git. Teh one from the AUR is a bit old, the one from the repos https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 3d8dd04593 added

make GIRARA_GTK_VERSION=3

and

make GIRARA_GTK_VERSION=3 DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … ges/girara
a while ago. It does provide libgirara-gtk3.so.1, so maybe this line does the trick.

HisDudeness · 2015-05-23 11:23:27

Actually I don't know, I'm gonna ask.

Right now I'm using the PKGBUILD given by asp, which gets me the latest versions of both girara and zathura. It is identical to the one you posted. Both line are present, but the error still persists.

Alad · 2015-05-23 11:46:41

You need to rebuild the plugins too.

HisDudeness · 2015-05-23 11:46:42

In the IRC chat, sebastinas said the problem was zathura-pdf-mupdf needed to be at the latest version too, along with girara. However, getting PKGBUILD with asp and doing makepkg would give some errors about too few arguments passed to C functions. As he suggested, getting the git branch of girara, zathura and plugins did the trick! No black bands anymore, nor orizontally neither vertically!

HisDudeness · 2015-05-23 11:48:27

Alad wrote:

You need to rebuild the plugins too.

Indeed, that was the problem! Thanks to everyone for your patience and support! I'd prefer compiling would work, but right now getting git braches is the way and work flawlessly.

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