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 0.18 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.
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.