Xpdf
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Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. Most of the tools are available as open source.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Xpdf information
Developed by
Glyph & Cog, LLC Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 3Alternatives
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Comments and Reviews
It's not bad. It's lightweight (10mb file, takes up around 27mb once installed on Windows).
You can read in a few formats (continuous, page by page, horizontal, etc.). There are tabs. But not much else.
There are however, command-line tools for some functions, but most aren't related to reading.
SumatraPDF is also lightweight and has far more features.
As per what I've understood, the reader itself is not open source. In any case, it's very awkward to use, and the buttons you'd expect to go forward and back on the pages do something I can't quite grasp. I think they go back and forwards on what documents you had opened or something. Overall not really useful, it doesn't even have a settings button.