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This list of PDF software includes links to articles on computer software used to manage PDF documents.
[edit] Multi-platform
[edit] Converters
- PdfTeX – converter (from TeX)
- Prince – PDF formatter using XML or HTML with CSS and SVG as input
- pstoedit – PostScript to (other) vector file format converter
- XeTeX – a TeX typesetting system that creates PDF documents
- SWFTools – free tools, contains tool for converting pdf to swf
[edit] Development libraries
- iText – a free and open source library for creating and manipulating PDF, RTF, and HTML files in Java as well as C# and other .NET languages
- JasperReports – is an open source Java reporting tool that can write to screen, to a printer or into PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT, Comma-separated values and XML files.
- PDF Clown – a free software library for creating and manipulating PDF files in Java 1.5 (or later) and .NET 2.0 (or later)
- Poppler – an open source multi-backend library derived from Xpdf, without a bundled viewer, but providing a cairo backend
- ReportLab – an open-source, Python-based PDF creation library from ReportLab
- TCPDF - an open-source PHP library for creating PDF files
- Xpdf – an open source multi-backend library for viewing and manipulating PDF files. Bundled with a viewer with the same name
[edit] Creators
- Adobe Acrobat – Adobe Systems commercial desktop PDF authoring suite.
- Ghostscript – viewer, creator and converter.
- Inkscape – open, edit and export documents, Inkscape is free software.
- PageStream – commercial cross-platform desktop publishing application to open, edit and export.
- Pdftk – command-line tools to create, edit and convert documents.
- Scribus – cross-platform desktop publishing (DTP) application
- PDFedit – a free software (GPL) for viewing or editing the internal structures of PDF documents.
- PDF Studio – a commercial software for viewing or editing PDF documents.
[edit] Viewers
- Adobe Reader – Adobe's PDF reader.
- GSview – a graphical interface for Ghostscript and is very helpful for extracting data from locked PDFs.
- Okular – universal viewer for KDE; replaces KPDF, available on Windows from KDE 4.1
- Xpdf – a multiplatform viewer.
[edit] AmigaOS
[edit] Converters
- Antiword a free Microsoft Word reader for various operating systems. Antiword converts the binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text and to PostScript. Available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS X86.
- dvipdfm a DVI to PDF translator with zlib support
[edit] Creators
- ClibPDF PDF Writer Linker-Lib for StormC (68k+PPC)
[edit] Viewers
- gv a file viewer program included with the multi-platform Ghostscript package
- Xpdf a multiplatform viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Amiga version uses X11 engine Cygnix.
[edit] Unix-like
[edit] Converters
- CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) – supports exporting to PDF formats
- GIMP
- OpenOffice.org
- Pdftk (the PDF Toolkit) – can merge, split, en-/decrypt, watermark/stamp and manipulate PDF files
[edit] Creators
- Xournal – an open source program which also supports annotating pdf files
[edit] Viewers
[edit] Mac OS X
[edit] Converters
[edit] Creators
- Mac OS X's printing subsystem enables any application with printing capability to generate a PDF.
[edit] Viewers
- Adobe Reader – Adobe Systems Reader is also available on the Mac platform.
- Preview – Mac OS X's default PDF viewer (in v10.5 it also can annotate, rearrange pages, and merge PDF files)
- Safari – Apple's web browser supports in-line PDF viewing.
- Skim – an open source PDF reader and note-taker for Mac OS X
[edit] Microsoft Windows
[edit] Converters
- deskUNPDF Standard and Professional – commercial PDF converter applications from Docudesk
- Nuance PDF Converter – a commercial, proprietary PDF viewing, editing & conversion tool from Nuance Communications
- Software602 Print2PDF – commercial PDF converter from Software602 Inc.
[edit] Creators
- CutePDF Professional – commercial PDF editor
- deskPDF Standard and Professional – commercial PDF converter
- DoPDF – freeware PDF creator
- Ecopy Desktop – commercial PDF editor
- Nitro PDF – commercial PDF viewer, creator, editor and converter application
- PagePlus X2 – commercial desktop publishing suite with PDF viewing, editing and creation features
- PaperPort Scansoft – commercial desktop publishing suite with PDF viewing, editing and creation features
- PDFCreator – free, open source PDF creator
[edit] Viewers
[edit] Mobile
- Adobe Reader – a PDF viewer from Adobe Systems for Symbian, Palm, and Pocket PC mobile devices.
- Foxit Reader – supports Windows CE 4.2 and 5.0.
- PDF-XChange Viewer – freeware viewer with extended markup capabilities, comes in a portable version that can be run from any suitable device, such as a flash drive or memory stick
[edit] Web-based
[edit] Converters
- PrimoOnline, free online PDF creator
- Software602 Print2PDF Premium Edition – interactive web conversion from IIS or XML-SOAP web service
- Zamzar – online file converter
[edit] Editors
- PDFescape – a free web service which views and edits PDF documents in the browser
- PDFFiller – a web-based program that allows the user to read, edit or fill out PDF forms from within the browser.
- PDFVue – a free web application that allows the user to view PDF's, comment and fill PDF forms from a web browser.
[edit] Viewers
- vuzit – a web service which views PDF documents (and 40 others) as HTML in the browser via AJAX.
- Google docs – a web service which views PDF documents as HTML in the browser
- scribd – a web service which renders PDF documents as a Flash widget within a web page
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