Xpdf: A PDF Viewer for X

Current version: 3.03 (2011-aug-15)
Xpdf 3.03 supports PDF 1.7.

The Xpdf software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

Email: derekn@foolabs.com
PGP key (also available from the usual keyservers)

Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities.

Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems and should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler.

• About: More about Xpdf
• Download: Get the Xpdf source code and binaries
• Screen shots
• Decryption: Info on encrypted PDF files
• Ports & tools: Ports to other systems and tools based on the Xpdf code
• LZW: The Unisys LZW patent
• Problems: Common problems building and running xpdf
• Cracking: Some comments on bypassing PDF security restrictions.
• Links: Other PDF-related pages

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