okular
okular is a
powerful universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4 with a
plugin system.
okular combines the excellent functionality of KPDF with the
versatility of supporting different kind of documents, including PDF,
Postscript, DjVu, CHM, and others.
Its development began as part of Google's Summer of Code
program.
okular 0.14
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Price
Free to download
Size
-
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Pingo Toscano, Albert Astals Cid, Tobias Koenig,
Brad Hards, Piotr Szymanski, and Florian Graessle
Website
okular.kde.org
System Requirements
KDE 4 environment
Support
Sites:
Okular
Slides, Okular
Video, FAQ
Selected
Reviews:
Linux
Insider, KDE.org
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Features include:
- Thumbnails
- Table of Contents
- Links and hyperlinks
- Presentation mode
- Customizable view
- Text extraction
- Multicolumns view
- Page rotation
- Annotations and Bookmarks
- Forms support
- Embedded files in documents
- Multimedia support
Formats supported:
- 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 (DVI) - the output format of the TeX
typesetting software
- XML Paper Specification (XPS) - a document storage and
viewing specification developed by Microsoft
- Open Document Format (ODF) - implemented by the OpenOffice.org
office suite
- FictionBook - an open XML-based ebook format
- Comicbook - a format used to distribute online comics
- Plucker
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Last Updated Saturday, March 31 2012 @ 11:45 AM EST
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