About:
Poppler is a PDF rendering library derived from xpdf. It has been enhanced to utilize modern libraries such as freetype and cairo for better rendering. It also provides basic command line utilities.

Author:
Kristian Høgsberg <krh (at) bitplanet (dot) net> [contact developer]

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8.27/10.00 (2 votes)

Homepage:
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.8.3.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=poppler/poppler.git;a=summary
Bug tracker:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/
Mailing list archive:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), X11 Applications
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX, Unix
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers, Printing, Software Development :: Libraries, Text Processing

Dependencies: [change]
Cairo (required)
GLib (required)
GTK+ (required)
libjpeg (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	0.8.3	04-Jun-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	0.7.3	20-Mar-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.8.3	Minor bugfixes	04-Jun-2008 13:16
0.8.2	Minor bugfixes	30-Apr-2008 14:11
0.8.1	Minor bugfixes	28-Apr-2008 00:32
0.8.0	Minor feature enhancements	27-Mar-2008 15:58
0.6.4	Minor bugfixes	16-Feb-2008 18:42
0.6.3	Minor bugfixes	19-Dec-2007 16:30
0.6.2	Major security fixes	10-Nov-2007 19:53
0.6	Minor feature enhancements	15-Sep-2007 10:58
0.5.4	Initial freshmeat announcement	06-Jun-2007 14:18

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New poppler packages fix execution of arbitrary code by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jul 13th 2008 08:05 Red Hat: Updated poppler packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Apr 20th 2008 15:22 Debian: New poppler packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Feb 10th 2008 14:25 SuSE: Updates to various xpdf related packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 18th 2007 13:08

Red Hat: Updated poppler packages fix several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 11th 2007 01:08 Debian: New poppler packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Aug 5th 2007 01:27 Red Hat: Updated poppler packages fix a security issue in PDF handling by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Aug 5th 2007 01:05