CLAWS-MAIL-PDF-VIEWER(7)

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version 4.4.0 · 6 versions
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✨ CLAWS-MAIL-PDF-VIEWER 💖

okay bestie, so the manual page we're vibing with here is claws-mail-pdf-viewer(7), from the Claws Mail fam. it's a lil' doc that shows you how to make your emails stop being scared of PDFs. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

claws-mail-pdf-viewer — display PDF and PostScript® attachments

like. that's the whole job description. and it ate. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page is a quick lil' glow-up of the claws-mail-pdf-viewer package. nothing too deep, just the highlights ✨

also, real talk: this page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program literally does not have a manual page. so we're the understudy that slayed the role. 💀👑

claws-mail-pdf-viewer is a plugin (aka a loadable module, same vibe, different name) for the Claws Mail mailer. it's giving accessory, not main character.

what this plugin does is enable rendering of Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript® attachments right inside the message view of Claws Mail. no bouncing to another app, no "save as", no chaos. you just... look at it. iconic behavior. 😌

the PDF rendering is handled by the poppler library. poppler's doing the heavy lifting, we're just here for the vibes.

PostScript® rendering needs the gs tool to convert stuff to PDF first. and listen — if gs is not available, then only PDF attachments will be displayed. that's the boundary, bestie. respect it. 🚧

✨ USAGE ✨

before you can use a plugin, you gotta tell Claws Mail to load it on startup. it's not psychic, it needs instructions. 🙈

here's the whole routine:

  1. go to the “Configuration” menu on the main window toolbar
  2. open the “Plugins...” dialog
  3. click on the “Load plugin...” button
  4. select the plugin file, named pdf_viewer.so
  5. press the “Open” button

and boom. loaded. slay. 🎀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

the whole friend group, in case you wanna hang out more:

💖 AUTHORS 💖

  • Salvatore De Paolis <iwkse@claws-mail.org> — Wrote the claws-mail-pdf-viewer plugin.
  • Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> — Wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system.

two absolute legends, no cap. 🙌

Copyright © 2012-2020 Ricardo Mones

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one was version 4.4.0-1build1, dated 2026-08-21, and it's the claws-mail-pdf-viewer(7) manual — go read your PDFs in peace now, you earned it 💅💖✨

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