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.
The latest stable release is poppler-21.10.0.tar.xz,
released on Sep 1, 2021:
Release 21.10.0:
core:
* Add support for setting custom stamp annotations
* Add default appearance for the well known stamp names
* Correct encoding of signature's properties Reason & Location
* Splash: Fix rendering of some odd patterns
* SignatureHandler::validateCertificate: Add option to not do OCSP revocation check
* SignatureHandler::validateCertificate: Add support for AIA fetching to verify certificates
* greallocn: if memory allocation fails, free the previous pointer to avoid memory leak
* Fix issues with malformed files
* Internal code improvements
utils:
* pdfsig: Add a way to list certificate nicknames
* pdfsig: You can now add signatures from pdfsig
* pdfsig: Add option to not do OCSP revocation check
* pdfsig: Add option for AIA fetching to verify certificates
* pdfinfo: Add -custom option to print custom metadata
* pdfinfo: add metadata flags
qt:
* Add support for setting custom stamp annotations
* Add getters for signature's properties Reason & Location
* Internal code improvements
glib:
* Remove incorrect PopplerAttachment deprecation
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-0.4.11.tar.gz, released on September 6, 2021.
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:
