Poppler (software)
Poppler is a free library for Unix -like operating systems for displaying PDF files. It is from freedesktop.org Free Software released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License ( GPL) in the programming language C developed.
It can use Cairo for rendering, which thanks to its independence of X increases the portability; otherwise splash is used or, alternatively, also the QT4 -based Arthur be used. It is based on the code of Xpdf, version 3 development aims is the ease of use in other programs. Unlike its parent project is not Poppler on platform independence, but instead on good integration with Unix operating systems.
It is used as a backend for the PDF presentation functions of numerous software products and can be used by Xpdf. The programs Evince ( GNOME) and ocular ( KDE 4) based on Poppler and try to replace Xpdf. The OS/2- or eComstation Document Viewer Lucide uses for displaying PDF files Poppler. The Windows software Sumatra PDF used up to version 0.8.1 Poppler. The PowerPC operating system MorphOS included since version 3.0 PDF viewer VPDF also based on Poppler.
Poppler frontends
PDF reader that use Poppler
Many free programs use Poppler to render PDF documents.
History
Poppler arose as a splinter group of Xpdf part as a response to criticisms that existed on Xpdf. The name comes from the science fiction cartoon series Futurama, in the episode 15 in the second season ( The Problem with Popplers, German Do you know Popplers? ) The alien nature of the " Popplers " be discovered.