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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 ...
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]
On 18 September 2009, version 0.0.1 was announced to the Arch Linux community. [18] Zathura has been an official Arch Linux package since April 2010. [19] Same year, by the end of July it was added to the Source Mage Linux distribution. [20] It has been an official Debian package since at least 2011, as part of Debian Squeeze. [21]
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
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 .
Foxit Software was founded in 2001 [7] by Eugene Y. Xiong (Chinese: 熊雨前), 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]
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.
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 ...