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.libera.chat, which is also bridged to Matrix.
The latest stable release is poppler-24.11.0.tar.xz,
released on November 2, 2024:
core:
* Fix rendering of some buttons
* Fix selecting fonts in TTC font collections
* CairoOutputDev: prevent infinite loop in functionShadedFill()
* Fix some unstable headers not being usable on their own
* Fix some headers not being usable on their own
glib:
* Fix some headers not being usable on their own
* add INSTALL_GLIB_DEMO option to install poppler-glib-demo
* Fix Launch action with unicode encoded filenames
qt6:
* Fix memory handling issue on signature creation
* Fix Launch action with unicode encoded filenames
qt5:
* Fix Launch action with unicode encoded filenames
build system:
* Remove duplicate definitions
* cmake: Set CMAKE_C_STANDARD to 17
The tarball has been signed (.sig file) by Albert Astals Cid CA262C6C83DE4D2FB28A332A3A6A4DB839EAA6D7.
Besides poppler you are also going to need poppler encoding data: poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz, released on February 1, 2023.
Previous poppler releases are available here.
Poppler is developed using git. To clone the repository use the following command:
git clone https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler.git
or browse (via cgit) (via gitlab) the repository. Please send patches via gitlab merge requests.
Poppler comes with multiple frontends (APIs): cpp, glib, qt5 and qt6. Following is a list of already generated documentation. You can always generate up to date documentation from the source code.
Poppler Wiki.
Check out the bugs filed against poppler and the issues found by oss-fuzz.
Use gitlab to report bugs or suggest enhancements.
If you have documents that don't render properly with poppler, please open a bug and attach the PDF file there, if possible.
We run continuous integration via the gitlab CI on:
There are a few non official CI too:
