Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.

What's with the name?

Contact

Discuss poppler on the poppler mailing list, or visit the #poppler irc channel on irc.freenode.org.

Poppler Wiki.

Download

The 0.10 branch is the stable release series. The latest such release is poppler-0.10.0.tar.gz, released on October 9, 2008:

core:
 * Fix crashes on PDF using Stitching or Axial Shading painting
 * Fix rendering of PDF with Type1 fonts that have more than
   one encoding definition per line
 * Do not try to save documents that have Encryption as we
   do not support that and the user ended with a broken file
 * Fix crash on files with OptionalContentGroup but no Name

Qt4:
 * Fix the area of the links to be correctly reported on rotated documents

misc:
 * Mingw+Msys should work

Besides poppler you are also going to need poppler encoding data: poppler-data-0.2.1.tar.gz (released Sep 30, 2008).

Previous poppler releases are available here.

Poppler is available from git. To clone the repository use the following command:

git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler

or browse the repository with cgit.

TODO

See TODO or check out the bugs filed against poppler.

Bugzilla

Use bugzilla to report bugs or suggest enhancements. The component is poppler.

If you have documents that don't render properly with poppler, please open a bug in bugzilla and attach the PDF file there, if possible.

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