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-22.09.0.tar.xz,
released on September 1, 2022:
Release 22.09.0:
core:
* Splash: Do not truncate line dash patterns with more than 20 entries. Issue #1281
* Various signature related improvements
* Fix FormField::getFullyQualifiedName in some scenarios
* Splash: Small optimization on dash pattern handling
* JBIG2Stream::readHalftoneRegionSeg: Fix potential memory leak
* Fix crashes on malformed files. Including CVE-2022-38784
* Fix string formatting in error reporting
utils:
* pdfsig: List signature field names when listing signature information
* pdfsig: Add support for specifying signature by field name
* pdfunite: Fix crashes on malformed files
* pdfunite: Fix potential memory leak of docs
glib:
* Fix two potential memory leaks in poppler_document_create_dests_tree
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, 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:
