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Poppler can use two back-ends for drawing PDF documents, Cairo and Splash.
Notable free software applications using Poppler to render PDF documents include: Application The name Poppler comes from the animated series Futurama episode " The Problem with Popplers."
Poppler is a fork of Xpdf-3.0, a PDF file viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC. The project was started by Kristian Høgsberg with two goals: to provide PDF rendering functionality as a shared library, to centralize maintenance effort and to go beyond the goals of Xpdf, and to integrate with functionality provided by modern operating systems.Īs of the version 0.18 release in 2011, the poppler library represents a complete implementation of ISO 32000-1, the PDF format standard, and is the first major free PDF library to support its forms (only Acroforms but not full XFA forms ) and annotations features. It is commonly used on Linux systems, and is used by the PDF viewers of the open source GNOME and KDE desktop environments. Poppler is a free software utility library for rendering Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.