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-22.01.0.tar.xz,
released on Jan 5, 2022:
Release 22.01.0:
core:
* Allow local (relative to dll) fonts dir on Windows
* TextOutputDev: require more spacing between columns. Issue #1093
* Fix crash in Splash::gouraudTriangleShadedFill. Issue #1183
* Fix crash when calling Form::reset()
* GfxSeparationColorSpace: Check validity of colorspace and function. Issue #1184
* Minor code improvements
glib:
* Include glib.h before using defines from it
* Close file descriptors on error
* Plug some memory leaks
* Replace use of deprecated g_memdup/g_time_zone_new
* Remove FD-taking functions on windows
utils:
* pdfsig: Add support for documents with passwords
* pdfsig: Fix signing with -sign if nss password is needed
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:
