Poppler (software)
Poppler is a free software utility library for rendering Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Its development is supported by freedesktop.org. It is commonly used on Linux systems, and is used by the PDF viewers of the open source GNOME and KDE desktop environments.
| Developer(s) | freedesktop.org |
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| Initial release | 4 March 2005 |
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| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Linux, Unix, BSD, Windows |
| Type | Library |
| License | GPLv2 or GPLv3 |
| Website | poppler |
The project was started by Kristian Høgsberg with two goals: to provide PDF rendering functionality as a shared library, to centralize maintenance effort and to go beyond the goals of Xpdf, and to integrate with functionality provided by modern operating systems.
By the version 0.18 release in 2011, the poppler library represented a complete implementation of ISO 32000-1, the PDF format standard, and was the first major free PDF library to support its forms (only Acroforms but not full XFA forms) and annotations features.
Poppler is a fork of Xpdf-3.0, a PDF file viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.
The name Poppler comes from the animated series Futurama episode "The Problem with Popplers."