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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
Evince allows the selection of text in PDF files and allows users to highlight and copy text from documents made from scanned images, if the PDF includes OCR data. Evince used to obey the DRM restrictions of PDF files, which may prevent copying, printing, or converting some PDF files, however this has been made optional, and turned off by ...
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.
This is a list of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software ; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source . [ 1 ]
Foxit PDF Reader (formerly Foxit Reader) is a multilingual freemium PDF (Portable Document Format) tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. [3] Foxit Reader is developed by Fuzhou, China-based Foxit Software. Early versions of Foxit Reader were notable for startup performance and small file size. [4]
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 ...
Foxit Software was founded in 2001 [7] by Eugene Y. Xiong (Chinese: çéšć), a Chinese national with permanent residence in the United States, [4] to develop similar PDF software products to those from Adobe Systems and other PDF vendors, and offer them at lower prices. [12]
The first version of Sumatra PDF, designated version 0.1, was based on Xpdf 0.2 and was released on 1 June 2006. It switched to Poppler from version 0.2. In version 0.4, it changed to MuPDF for more speed [4] and better support for the Windows platform. Poppler remained as alternative engine for a time, and from version 0.6 to 0.8 it was ...