Yazi is a terminal-based file manager (TUI) that I use heavily because it’s fast and lets me navigate files and folders without needing a mouse. (…and I really dislike the OSX Finder)
Yazi can render previews for images and PDF files, but in my case, PDF previews weren’t showing up. Yazi requires Poppler for PDF previewing–and it was already installed on my system–the previews still didn’t work.
So I began debugging by running yazi --debug, which provides detailed information about your Yazi installation. Under the Dependencies section, I noticed a suspicious message:
pdftoppm : ExitStatus(unix_wait_status(25344)),"pdftoppm version 4.0...Continue reading “Yazi PDF preview not working”