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-20.11.0.tar.xz,
released on November 1, 2020:
Release 20.11.0:
core:
* More work on rendering of standalone Annot Widgets. Issue #806
* Fix crashes in embedded file handling on broken files. Issue #967
* Fix uninitialized memory read on broken files
* Save a bit of memory in Dict data
cpp:
* Fix crashes in embedded file handling on broken files. Issue #966
utils:
* pdftohtml: HTML and XML output includes font opacity.
qt5:
* Rename ArthurOutputDev to QPainterOutputDev
build system:
* Fix linker error when gtk is not in a default location
* Add some checks for gtk-doc support
* Reorganize GObject introspection config
* Enable CMAKE_LINK_DEPENDS_NO_SHARED
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-0.4.10.tar.gz, released on October 21, 2020.
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:
