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Zathura is a free, plugin-based document viewer.Plugins are available for PDF (via poppler or MuPDF), PostScript and DjVu.It was written to be lightweight and controlled with vi-like keybindings.
Okular was started for the Google Summer of Code of 2005 by Piotr Szymański. [1] [2] Okular was identified as a success story of the 2007 Season of Usability. [5]In this season, the Okular toolbar mockup was created based on an analysis of other popular document viewers and a usage survey.
Poppler is a free and open-source software library for rendering Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Its development is supported by freedesktop.org . Commonly used on Linux systems, [ 4 ] it powers the PDF viewers of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments .
Its customizable and theme-based user interface is inspired by those of portable e-reader hardware devices. It follows the GNOME standards and automatically adapts to different screen formats. [ 4 ] It is streamlined for distraction-free reading and is described as pleasant and more polished than other free desktop applications.
Lumina Desktop Environment, or simply Lumina, is a plugin-based desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It was designed specifically as a system interface for TrueOS and systems derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) in general, [3] but it has been ported to various Linux distributions. [4]
As with Adobe Acrobat, Nitro PDF Pro's reader is free; but unlike Adobe's free reader, Nitro's free reader allows PDF creation (via a virtual printer driver, or by specifying a filename in the reader's interface, or by drag-'n-drop of a file to Nitro PDF Reader's Windows desktop icon); Ghostscript not needed. PagePlus: Proprietary: No
These programs run on DOS, Windows, Linux and Unix. [4] Xpdf is also used as a back-end for other PDF readers frontends such as KPDF and GPDF, [6] and its engine, without the X11 display components, is used for PDF viewers including BePDF on BeOS, '!PDF' on RISC OS, and PalmPDF [10] on Palm OS [4] and on Windows Mobile. [11] Two versions exist ...
Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.Its main purposes are the rasterization or rendering of such page description language [4] files, for the display or printing of document pages, and the conversion between PostScript and PDF files.