Okular

Okular
	Okular showing a PDF in KDE 4
Developer(s)	Okular Team
Stable release	0.6.3 / Apr 2, 2008
Repository	invent.kde.org/graphics/okular ;
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	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
Device independent file format (DVI)
XML Paper Specification (XPS)
OpenDocument format (ODF)
FictionBook
ComicBook
Plucker
Various image formats.

Notes

[1] KDE Developer's Corner - Google Summer of Code 2005 Projects

[2] KDE Developer's Corner - oKular

[3] Okular - more than a reader - document format handlers status

[1]

[2]

[3]

See also

Notes