Xpdf

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Xpdf

The Xpdf viewer
Developer(s) Foo Labs
Initial release December 12, 1995 (1995-12-12)
Stable release 3.03 / August 16, 2011 (2011-08-16)
Operating system Cross-platform
Type PDF viewer
License GNU GPL or proprietary[1][2]
Website www.foolabs.com/xpdf

Xpdf is an open-source PDF viewer for the X Window System and Motif.[1][3] Xpdf runs on practically any Unix-like operating system. Xpdf can decode LZW and read encrypted PDFs. The official version obeys the DRM restrictions of PDF files,[4] which may prevent copying, printing, or converting some PDF files.[1] There are patches which make Xpdf ignore these DRM restrictions,[5] and these restrictions are patched out by the Debian distribution.[6]

Xpdf includes several programs that don't need an X Window System, including some which extract images from PDF files or convert PDF to PostScript or text. These programs run on DOS, Windows, Linux and Unix.[1]

Xpdf is also used as a back-end for other PDF readers frontends such as KPDF and GPDF,[3] and its engine, without the X11 display components, is used for PDF viewers including BePDF on BeOS, '!PDF' on RISC OS, on PalmPDF[7] on Palm OS[1] and on Windows Phones.[8]

Two versions exist for AmigaOS. Xpdf needs a limited version of an X11 engine called Cygnix on the host system. AmigaOS 4 included AmiPDF, a PDF viewer which is based on 3.01 version of the XPDF. however both Apdf and AmiPDF are native and need no X11.

xpdf-utils

The associated package xpdf-utils contains tools such as pdftotext and pdfimages.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Xpdf website
  2. ↑ Glyph & Cog, LLC: Xpdf
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Polzer, Leslie (2006-11-28). "A survey of Linux PDF viewers". SourceForge, Inc. Retrieved 2007-08-30. 
  4. ↑ Xpdf - Cracking
  5. ↑ Generic Xpdf Patch Instructions
  6. ↑ Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions
  7. ↑ PalmPDF
  8. ↑ PocketXpdf

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