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Okular

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Okular is a universal document viewer for the KDE4 desktop environment.
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Okular

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Okular with thumbnails

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Developer: Okular-Team
License: GPL
Web: http://okular.kde.org/


[edit] Functionality

Okular is based on KPDF and displaces KPDF, KGhostView, KFax, Kfaxview, Kview and KDVI. Against KPDF, Okular supports a system for bookmarks, comments, for forms and multimedia contents and a multicolumn view.

The core of the program consists of a library, which abstract modules for every single format. The functionality and the appropriate graphical user interface can be integrated in other programs.


[edit] Supported formats

  • PDF
  • PostScript
  • TIFFs
  • DVI
  • DjVu
  • CHM_(file format) Microsofts Compiled HTML Help (CHM)
  • more various picture formats
  • XML Paper Specification (XPS)
  • OpenDocument-files
  • FictionBook
  • ComicBook
  • Plucker

...and many more. For more information look at the project page.

[edit] See also