Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.
What's with the name?
Discuss poppler on the poppler
mailing list, or visit the #poppler irc channel on
irc.freenode.org.
Poppler Wiki.
The 0.12 branch is the stable release series. The latest such release
is poppler-0.12.2.tar.gz,
released on Nov 18, 2009:
core: * Fix a memory leak when converting to PostScript * Fix crash when reading a font fails. Bug #24525 * Make the ICC cache per page instead of global. Bug #24686 * Do not accept negative interval lengths in the page labels tree. Bug #24721 * Do not crash on files Aspect of Movie objects are reals instead of integers. Bug #24733 * Do not render patterns when using CairoImageOutputDev * Allow Transitions dictionary to be a Ref * Do not crash if jpeg_start_decompress fails. KDE bug #214317 glib: * Fix CVE-2009-3607 qt4: * Use '.' in the annotations XML instead of the decimal separator of the current locale
Besides poppler you are also going to need poppler encoding data: poppler-data-0.3.1.tar.gz (released Nov 20, 2009).
Development takes place on git in what will be the 0.14 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.
See TODO or check out the bugs filed against poppler.
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.