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This list of PDF software includes links to articles on computer software used to manage PDF documents. There is also a Wikipedia category for individual PDF software articles.

Multi-platform

Converters

  • PdfTeX – converter (from TeX)
  • Prince – PDF formatter using XML or HTML with CSS and SVG as input
  • pstoedit – PostScript to (other) vector file format converter
  • XeTeX – a TeX typesetting system that creates PDF documents
  • EG-PdfConverter – convert PDF file to XDW format, provided by the Embedded General Inc.
  • JODConverter - convert ODF to PDF (or any format understand by OpenOffice.org)

Development libraries

  • Adobe PDF Library - Adobe's PDF implementation used in many of it's products.
  • cairo – a Vector drawing library which can create PDF documents
  • Fly SDK - libraries to convert, create, mark, merge or modify PDF files
  • iText – a Java-based library for the creation, editing and conversion of PDF files
  • PDF Clown – an open-source library for creating and manipulating PDF files in Java 1.5 and C# 2.0
  • Xpdf - an open source multi-backend library for viewing and manipulating PDF files. Bundled with a viewer with the same name
  • Poppler – an open source multi-backend library derived from Xpdf, without a bundled viewer, but providing a cairo backend
  • Qoppa PDF libraries – java libraries to view, print, manipulate PDF Documents.
  • PDFNet - development library to read, create, convert and manipulate PDF documents.
  • ReportLab – an open-source, Python-based PDF creation library from ReportLab
  • libharu free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF
  • MuPDF – an open-source PDF rendering and editing libray based on display trees

Creators

Viewers

  • Adobe Reader – Adobe's PDF reader, offered at no cost
  • Foxit Reader – (semi) free viewer for Microsoft Windows and mobile devices
  • Okular – universal viewer for KDE; replaces KPDF, available on Windows from KDE 4.1
  • PDF Studio – PDF annotator for Linux, Mac & Windows

AmigaOS

Converters

  • Antiword a free Microsoft Word reader for various operating systems. Antiword converts the binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text and to PostScript. Available for AmigaOS 4.0, MorphOS and AROS X86 but not for classic AmigaOS.
  • AutoPDF 1.5a - Convert Postscript to PDF
  • dvipdfm a DVI to PDF translator with zlib support
  • EPS-PDF Postscript to PDF converters
  • htmldoc Convert HTML to PDF,PostScript (htmldoc-mos is the MorphOS version)
  • pdf2pic an alternative way of viewing PDF's
  • pdftohtml Converts PDF documents into HTML or PS
  • pdftops020 or pdftops040 Portable Document Format converters optimized for 68020 or 68040
  • pdftotext020 or pdftotext040 Portable Document Format converters optimized for 68020 or 68040
  • SVGTools Tools to convert SVG to PDF/PS/PNG
  • XPDFTools Collection of tools to manipulate PDF documents on MorphOS

Creators

Viewers

  • gv a file viewer program included with the multi-platform Ghostscript package
  • Xpdf a multiplatform viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Amiga version uses X11 engine Cygnix.

GNU/Linux/UNIX

Converters

  • CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) – supports exporting to PDF formats
  • Pdftk (the PDF Toolkit) – can merge, split, en-/decrypt, watermark/stamp and manipulate PDF files in a few other ways.[1]

Creators

  • PDFedit – a free software (GPL) for viewing or editing the internal structures of PDF documents.
  • Xournal – an open source program which also supports annotating pdf files

Viewers

Mac OS X

Converters

Creators

Mac OS X's printing subsystem enables any application with printing capability to generate a PDF.

Viewers

  • Preview – Mac OS X's default PDF viewer (in v10.5 it also can annotate, rearrange pages, and merge PDF files)
  • Adobe Reader – Adobe Reader is also available on the Mac platform.
  • Safari – Apple's web browser supports in-line PDF viewing.
  • Skim – an open source PDF reader and note-taker for Mac OS X

Microsoft Windows

Converters

  • ABBYY PDF Transformer – commercial Microsoft Office-to-PDF document conversion software from ABBYY
  • deskUNPDF Standard and Professional – commercial PDF converter applications from Docudesk
  • Nuance PDF Converter – a commercial, proprietary PDF viewing, editing & conversion tool from Nuance Communications
  • PDFCreator – a free open-source program for converting documents into PDF files. Installs as a virtual printer on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
  • STDU Converter – DjVu and TIFF to PDF converter
  • Zetadocs PDF – commercial Microsoft Office-to-PDF document conversion software from Equisys

Creators

  • CutePDF Professional – commercial PDF editor from Acro Software
  • deskPDF Standard and Professional – commercial PDF converter applications from Docudesk
  • Ecopy Desktop – a commercial PDF imaging editor
  • Nitro PDF – a commercial PDF viewer, creator, editor and converter application from Nitro PDF, Inc.
  • PagePlus X2 – a commercial desktop publishing suite with PDF viewing, editing and creation features
  • PrimoPDF
  • DoPDF - a freeware PDF creator

Viewers

Mobile

Web-based

Converters

  • Zamzar – online file converter

Creators

  • PDFVue - A web based PDF editor capable of annotating PDF's, and creating fillable forms.

Viewers

  • scribd - a web service which renders PDF documents as a Flash widget within a web page
  • Google docs - a web service which views PDF documents as images in the browser, as well as allowing online document editing

References

  1. ^ AccessPDF - Pdftk

External links

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