Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.
What's with the name?
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The latest stable release is poppler-0.84.0.tar.xz,
released on December 28, 2019:
Release 0.84.0:
core:
* Fix crash when converting from Unicode to ASCII-7
* Splash::scaleImageYdXu: Protect against crash if srcWidth is too big
* JBIG2Stream: fix potential crash in malformed documents
* JBIG2Stream: fix leak in reset() if called several times
* Internal code improvements
utils:
* pdfimages: Add error message if first page is larger then number of pages.
* pdfinfo: Improved paper size recognition
* pdfsig: Fix exit code when dumping signatures
* pdftocairo: Error out when even/odd selects 0 pages
* pdftohtml: Fix memory leak
* pdftoppm: Add an option to scale before rotate
* pdftoppm: Add -hide-annotations option
* pdftoppm: Error out when even/odd selects 0 pages
* pdftops: Improve -optimizecolorspace
qt5:
* Code cleanups
glib:
* Fix compiler warnings
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:
