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MuPDF is a free and open-source software framework written in C that implements a PDF, XPS, and EPUB parsing and rendering engine. It is used primarily to render pages into bitmaps, but also provides support for other operations such as searching and listing the table of contents and hyperlinks. The focus of MuPDF is on speed, small code size ...
Google Chrome: Includes a PDF viewer. GSview: Open source software and Ghostscript's viewer for Windows. Microsoft Edge: Includes a PDF viewer. Microsoft Reader: A discontinued PDF viewer in Windows 8.1. Mozilla Firefox: Includes a PDF viewer. MuPDF: Free lightweight document viewer. Nitro PDF Reader: Freeware (though proprietary) PDF reader ...
The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny open source portable reader that opens PDF's in the blink of an eye. Bloat and startup time is a major drawback to Adobe Reader, so we fled to the faster arms of Foxit Reader long ago. However, at 850KB, Sumatra is way slimmer than FoxIt. ^ Anders Ingeman Rasmussen (2008).
Xpdf runs on nearly any Unix-like operating system.Binaries are also available for Windows.Xpdf can decode LZW and read encrypted PDFs. The official version obeys the DRM restrictions of PDF files, [7] which can prevent copying, printing, or converting some PDF files. [4]
Skim (software) Skim is an open-source PDF reader. It is notably the first free software PDF reader for macOS. [2] It is written in Objective-C, and uses Cocoa APIs. It is released under a BSD license. It is also cited as being able to help annotate and read scientific papers. [3]
Poppler. Poppler is a free and open-source software library for rendering Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Its development is supported by freedesktop.org. Commonly used on Linux systems, [4] it powers the PDF viewers of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments.
iText is a library for creating and manipulating PDF files in Java and . NET. It was created in 2000 and written by Bruno Lowagie. The source code was initially distributed as open source under the Mozilla Public License or the GNU Library General Public License open source licenses.
Okular was started for the Google Summer of Code of 2005 by Piotr Szymański. [1] [2] Okular was identified as a success story of the 2007 Season of Usability. [5]In this season, the Okular toolbar mockup was created based on an analysis of other popular document viewers and a usage survey.