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Xpdf can decode LZW and read encrypted PDFs. The official version obeys the DRM restrictions of PDF files, [7] which can prevent copying, printing, or converting some PDF files. [4] There are patches that make Xpdf ignore these DRM restrictions; [8] the Debian distribution, for example, has these patches in place by default. [9]
Poppler is a fork of Xpdf-3.0, a PDF file viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] The name Poppler comes from " The Problem with Popplers ," an episode of the animated series Futurama .
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 ...
pdfimages is an open-source command-line utility for lossless extraction of images from PDF files, including JPEG2000 and JBIG2 format when used with option -all. [1] It is freely available as part of poppler-utils and xpdf-utils, and included in many Linux distributions.
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.
Debian family tree. Debian (a portmanteau of the names "Deb" and "Ian") Linux is a distribution that emphasizes free software.It supports many hardware platforms. Debian and distributions based on it use the .deb package format [2] and the dpkg package manager and its frontends (such as apt or synaptic).
Poppler is based on Xpdf [77] [78] code base. There are also commercial development libraries available as listed in List of PDF software . The Apache PDFBox project of the Apache Software Foundation is an open source Java library, licensed under the Apache License , for working with PDF documents.
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.