Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.

What's with the name?

Contact

Discuss poppler on the poppler mailing list, or visit the #poppler irc channel on irc.freenode.org.

Poppler Wiki.

Download

The 0.18 branch is the stable release series. The latest such release is poppler-0.18.3.tar.gz, released on January 15, 2012:

        core:
         * Do not fail if we are trying to save a file with Encrypt that has not been modified. KDE Bug #288045
         * Include .otf fonts when finding substitute fonts. Bug #44412
         * Fix stack overflow in PDFDoc::markObject(). Bug #44660
         * Include strings.h as we use memcpy. Bug #43558

        utils:
         * pdfunite: Properly initialize globalParams. Bug #44659
         * pdfseparate: Properly initialize globalParams
         * Fix iniliazialization of GooString arguments

        build system:
         * autoconf: Check for cairo-ft and other cairo backends. Bug #43969

Besides poppler you are also going to need poppler encoding data: poppler-data-0.4.5.tar.gz (released Aug 31, 2011).

Development takes place on git in what will be the 0.20 release series.

Previous poppler releases are available here.

Poppler is available from git. To clone the repository use the following command:

git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler

or browse the repository with cgit.

TODO

See TODO or check out the bugs filed against poppler.

Bugzilla

Use bugzilla to report bugs or suggest enhancements. The component is poppler.

If you have documents that don't render properly with poppler, please open a bug in bugzilla and attach the PDF file there, if possible.