qpdfview is a simple, tabbed document viewer.
It uses Poppler for PDF support, libspectre for PS support, DjVuLibre for DjVu support, CUPS for printing support and the Qt toolkit for its interface.
The software is released under an open source license.
Key Features
- Outline, properties and thumbnail panes.
- Scale, rotate and fit.
- Fullscreen and presentation views.
- Continuous and multiple-page layouts.
- Search for text.
- Configurable tool bars.
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts.
- Persistent per-file settings.
- SyncTeX support.
- Rudimentary annotation support.
- Rudimentary form support.
- Support for PostScript and DjVu documents via plugins.
- Bookmarks.
- Internationalization support.
Website: launchpad.net/qpdfview
Support:
Developer: The qpdfview developers
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

qpdfview is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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