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.
The latest stable release is poppler-0.89.0.tar.xz,
released on May 27, 2020:
Release 0.89.0:
core:
* Add support for ResetForm action. Issue #225
* Fix crash in PDFDoc::getSignatureFields when there's no Forms at all
* Fix exporting to PS of some files with CID fonts
* Use ICC profiles in PS output (if new enough lcms is used)
* Allow almost-singular tiling pattern matrices. Issue #894
* Fix memory leak when failing to load some fonts
* CairoOutputDev: Use stroke opacity when clipping to a stroke path
* CairoOutputDev: Fix tiling patterns when pattern cell is too far. Issue #190
glib:
* Add poppler_movie_get_aspect
cpp:
* Add the font infos to the text_box object
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-0.4.9.tar.gz, released on April 24, 2018.
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 and qt5. 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:
