Okular
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Okular | |
|---|---|
 |
|
 Okular showing a PDF in KDE 4 |
|
| Developed by | Okular Team |
| Latest release | 0.6.3 / Apr 2, 2008 |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Universal document viewer |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://okular.kde.org |
Okular is the the document viewer for KDE 4. It is based on KPDF and it replaced KPDF, KGhostView, KFax, KFaxview, KDVI in KDE 4. Its functionality can be easily embedded in other applications.
Okular was started for the Google Summer of Code of 2005; Piotr Szymanski was the accepted student[1][2].
It supports the following file formats[3]:
- Portable Document Format (PDF) with the Poppler backend
- PostScript with the libgs backend
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) with the libTIFF backend
- Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM) with the libCHM backend
- DjVu with the DjVuLibre backend
- images
- Device independent file format (DVI)
- XML Paper Specification (XPS)
- OpenDocument format (ODF)
- FictionBook
- ComicBook
- Plucker
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ KDE Developer's Corner - Google Summer of Code 2005 Projects
- ^ KDE Developer's Corner - oKular
- ^ Okular - more than a reader - document format handlers status
|
|||||||||||||||||
