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qpdfview

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qpdfview is a Qt-based tabbed document viewer using the Poppler library for PDF rendering and CUPS for printing. Support for the DjVu and PostScript formats can be added via plugins.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Linux  DjVu and Postscript support can be added via plugins; basic annotation and forms support only
  • Haiku
  • Qt
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Fill PDF Forms
  2.  Support for Right-to-Left
  3.  Edit PDF
  4.  QT Based
  5.  Tabbed interface

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qpdfview information

  • Developed by

    DE flagAdam Reichold
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
  • Alternatives

    77 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about qpdfview, and it has gotten 44 likes

qpdfview was added to AlternativeTo by Worldblender on May 7, 2013 and this page was last updated Jul 30, 2023.

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Top Positive Comment
Sneetsher
Oct 25, 2020
0

Very light weight PDF viewer, with very good support for RTL languages like Arabic, Hebrew ... (Document language, viewer page layout, ..)

Top Negative Comment
jamesbond2
Feb 5, 2015
2

Debian Testing HP Officejet Pro 8600 with HP native printer correctly installed. CUPS 1.7.5 HPCUPS 3.14.6 qpdfview 0.4.12

It uses Qt-native printing dialog, however:

  • completely ignores Duplex setting. If I set it to long-side duplex once, it will duplex all the time. I have made sure its set to off, also in CUPS web interface it is set to OFF, nevertheless it prints in LongEdge Duplex after I once used it.

  • lists supported papers, but only few are selectable. For example it lists A4, A4 small margins and A4 borderless; but only A4 small margins is selectable. If I select this, then text gets CUT as if it does not scale the input image, but instead cuts the margins off. A workaround (!) is to select the only available A4 small margins, then set borders to zero manually. For every print.

  • There is no option to preview the result. Very primitive.

VERY BAD FOR PRINTING! And no djvu support...

tw314
Nov 14, 2018
0

Like the options "trim margin" and "invert colour". Together with the right Qt setting, it is just perfect for dark mode people like me!

What is qpdfview?

qpdfview is a Qt-based tabbed document viewer using the Poppler library for PDF rendering and CUPS for printing. Support for the DjVu and PostScript formats can be added via plugins.

Current features include:

  • 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 (with Poppler version 0.20.1 or higher)
  • Rudimentary form support
  • Support for PostScript and DjVu documents