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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 .
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
Sumatra has a minimalist design, with its simplicity attained at the cost of extensive features. For rendering PDFs, it uses the MuPDF library. [4]Sumatra was designed for portable use, as it consists of one file with no external dependencies, making it usable from an external USB drive, needing no installation. [5]
PDF was a proprietary format controlled by Adobe until it was released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008, [7] [8] at which time control of the specification passed to an ISO Committee of volunteer industry experts.
Xpdf runs on nearly any Unix-like operating system.Binaries are also available for Windows.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]
ExifTool is a free and open-source software program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, video, and PDF metadata.As such, ExifTool classes as a tag editor.It is platform independent, available as both a Perl library (Image::ExifTool) and a command-line application.
MuPDF is a free and open-source software framework written in C that implements a PDF, XPS, and EPUB parsing and rendering engine. It is used primarily to render pages into bitmaps , but also provides support for other operations such as searching and listing the table of contents and hyperlinks.
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.