Okular

Okular
Okular showing a PDF in KDE 4
Developed by	Okular Team
Latest release	0.6.3 / Apr 2, 2008
Platform	Cross-platform
Genre	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
• images
• Device independent file format (DVI)
• XML Paper Specification (XPS)
• OpenDocument format (ODF)
• FictionBook
• ComicBook
• Plucker

See also

• List of PDF software

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

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