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 0.22 branch is the stable release series. The latest such release is poppler-0.22.4.tar.gz, released on May 13, 2013:

        core:
         * Always consider a softmask transfer function (Bug #63587)
         * Fix crash on malformed files (Bug #63190)
         * Splash: Fix compilation with fixed point mode enabled

        utils:
         * Fix crash on some files (Bug #63909)

        qt4:
         * Fix name decoding of some attachments (KDE Bug #307786)

        build system:
         * Fix compilation with mingw-w64 compiler

Besides poppler you are also going to need poppler encoding data: poppler-data-0.4.6.tar.gz (released Oct 12, 2012).

Development takes place on git in what will be the 0.24 release series. The latest unstable release is Poppler 0.23.0 (0.24 Alpha) poppler-0.23.0.tar.xz, released on May 13, 2013:

        core:
         * Make rendering thread safe
         * Large file support
         * Implement Crypt filter (Bug #62800)
         * Fix endstream detection (Bug #62985)
         * CairoOutputDev: support uncolored tiling patterns (Bug #59179)
         * SplashOutputDev: Introduce Thin Line mode support (Bug #37347)

        qt4:
         * Expose Thin Line mode support

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.