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ranger is a great terminal-based file manager. For a long time, I used pdftoppm for image-based PDF previews which is the recommended approach. However, I found it was difficult to install pdftoppm everywhere (particularly, macos) and finally turned to MuPDF, which was much easier to get.

In order to use MuPDF, I changed the PDF case within the handle_image() function inside scope.sh to the following:

application/pdf)
    mutool draw -F png -o "${IMAGE_CACHE_PATH}" "${FILE_PATH}" 1 \
        && exit 6 || exit 1;;

Incidentally, it looks like ranger has started to use mutool draw for the PDF to txt conversion (see here).

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