List of PDF software
This list of PDF software includes notable computer software used to manage PDF documents.
Multi-platform
Free and open source
- Ghostscript – viewer, creator and converter
- GSPdf – viewer for GNUstep, based on Ghostscript
- iText – Java-based creator, editor and converter
- KPDF – KDE's viewer; based on Xpdf.
- Multivalent – Java-based viewer
- OpenOffice.org – office suite, can export to PDF
- PDFBox – Java library
- PdfTeX – converter (from TeX)
- Pdftk – creator, editor and converter (iText frontend)
- ReportLab – Python-based creator
- Scribus – creator
- Xpdf
Proprietary
- Adobe Acrobat – Adobe's official PDF creator, commercial
- Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator – Adobe's official SERVER SIDE PDF generator, commercial
- Adobe Reader – Adobe's official PDF reader, offered at no cost
- Foxit – viewer
- RasterMaster – viewer and conversion toolkit
DOS
Linux
- CUPS – printing system, can export to PDF
- Evince – viewer (for GNOME)
- GPdf – viewer (for GNOME, replaced by Evince)
- gv
- KPDF – viewer (for KDE)
- Foxit – viewer
- Poppler – library for viewing
- Xpdf – viewer (for X Window System)
- PdfEdit – editor
Mac OS X
- Preview – Apple's default PDF viewer
- ColorSync Utility – Apple's image utility
- PDFView – free, lightweight viewer
- PDF-Office Professional – commercial PDF form creation software
Windows
- ABBYY PDF Transformer – shareware creator and converter
- ABCpdf – proprietary library for creation, manipulation and rendering
- Brava Reader – no-cost, proprietary viewer
- CutePDF – adware converter
- Docudesk deskPDF Professional – shareware PDF writer for printing PDFs
- Docudesk deskUNPDF – shareware PDF converter for opening PDFs in Word
- Foxit Reader – adware no-cost, proprietary viewer
- NitroPDF – proprietary, commercial viewer, creator, editor and converter
- novaPDF – shareware creator
- pdfFactory – proprietary, commercial low cost creator and converter
- PDF995 – proprietary, commercial low cost creator and toolkit
- PDF FLY – commercial converter to vector, bitmap, ascii formats; batch & DLL
- PDF-Office Professional – proprietary, commercial PDF form creation software
- PDF Converter – proprietary, commercial viewer, creator and converter
- PDFCreator – free creator (FOSS)
- sharpPDF – C# PDF library.
- SolidConverter – (Shareware) PDF creator and converter