Poppler
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| developer | freedesktop.org |
| Current version | 0.84.0 (December 28, 2019) |
| operating system | Linux , Unix , BSD , Windows |
| programming language | C ++ |
| category | PDF library |
| License | GPL ( Free Software ) |
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Poppler is a free program library for Unix-like operating systems for displaying PDF files. It is being developed by freedesktop.org as free software under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) in the programming language C ++ .
It can use Cairo for the display, which increases portability thanks to its independence from X ; otherwise Splash is used or, alternatively, the Qt 4-based Arthur can be used. It is based on version 3 of the Xpdf code. One of the development goals is ease of use in other programs. Contrary to his parent project, Poppler does not rely on platform independence , but instead on good integration with Unix operating systems.
It is used as a backend for the PDF display functions of numerous software products and can be used by Xpdf. The programs Evince ( Gnome ) and Okular ( KDE 4 ) are based on Poppler and try to replace Xpdf. The OS / 2 or eComStation document viewer Lucide uses Poppler to display PDF files. The Windows software Sumatra PDF also used Poppler up to version 0.8.1, but switched to MuPDF .
Poppler front ends
| Surname | address |
| gLib | included in Poppler |
| Qt | included in Poppler |
| Qt4 | included in Poppler |
| PopplerKit GNUStep / Cocoa | Svn |
PDF readers that use Poppler
Many free programs use Poppler to render PDF documents.
| application | external link | Graphical toolkit |
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| Evince | Homepage | GTK + |
| eyepiece | Homepage | Qt |
| Vindaloo | Homepage | PopplerKit |
| VPDF | Source code | Magic user interface |
| ePDFView | Homepage | GTK + (project discontinued) |
| TeXworks | Homepage | Qt |
| TeXstudio | Homepage | Qt |
| LocoPDF | Homepage | |
| pdftotext | poppler utils | |
| DiffPDF | Homepage | Qt |
| Zathura | Homepage | GTK + |
| Xournal | Homepage | GTK + |
| Inkscape | PDF import details | GTK + |
| qpdfview | Homepage | Qt |
history
Poppler emerged as a spin-off from Xpdf, among other things as a reaction to points of criticism that existed against Xpdf. The name comes from the science fiction cartoon series Futurama , in which the extraterrestrial beings of the "Popplers" are discovered in episode 15 of the second season ( The Problem with Popplers , German Do you know Popplers? ).
credentials
- ^ Poppler Wiki. Information about Poppler . Retrieved August 19, 2012.
- ↑ Publications in fedora-blog ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Official website (English)