Xpdf
Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities. It runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems, and should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler. Xpdf is designed to be small and efficient. It can use Type 1 and TrueType fonts.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Viewers Graphics Conversion printing |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Windows |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 17 Apr 2009 12:43
Changes: This release fixes several security problems related to parsing broken JBIG2 files.
- 07 Nov 2007 14:14
Changes: This release fixes security holes with the following CVE identifiers: CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392, and CVE-2007-5393.
- 31 Jul 2007 14:10
Changes: One security hole (CVE-2007-3387) has been fixed.
- 27 Feb 2007 22:58
Changes: Anti-aliased vector graphics were added, including stroke adjustment. PDF 1.6 and PDF 1.7 are supported, including AES decryption and OpenType fonts. The keyboard and mouse bindings may be configured by the user. Full-screen mode was improved, with the ability to toggle on the fly.
- 08 Jan 2007 08:21
Changes: Several security holes, as reported in CAN-2005-3191/3192/3193/3624/3625/2626/2627/3628, and CAN-2006-0301, were fixed.
- All comments
Recent commentsWidgetless option?
Xpdf is a great viewer. It is fast and easily configurable. I only wonder if there is a way to suppress the widgets (scrollbars and toolbars) so that the pdf document covers the whole window (i.e., something similar to what the --widgetless option in gv does, but without the pagebar).
Re: xpdf not working for pdf file
> xpdf is not working for pdf document at
> http://www.heelbhi.com/resources/product_lit/zeel_study_web.pdf
What sort of problem are you seeing?
If you're getting scrambled text, the problem is that Xpdf 3.00 doesn't work correctly with FreeType 2.1.8 and newer -- they changed the way CID font encodings are handled. The upcoming Xpdf 3.01 release will fix that problem.
xpdf not working for pdf file
Hi
xpdf is not working for pdf document at
http://www.heelbhi.com/resources/product_lit/zeel_study_web.pdf
xpdf runs well and this is unusual.
Running in Debian, this version:
russell@athlonbox:~$ apt-show-versions xpdf
xpdf/stable uptodate 3.00-13
this box:
Linux athlonbox 2.6.6 #1 Sun Jun 12 18:47:44 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Re: Motif
> It apparently needs Motif and Motif
> isn't free. (and there are no packages
> for my system).
OpenMotif (http://www.openmotif.org/) is available (in source form) for any open source OS.
Alternatively, LessTif (http://www.lesstif.org/) is available under the LGPL.
Motif
It apparently needs Motif and Motif isn't free. (and there are no packages for my system).