| 1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: Xpdf 4.00 - a PDF viewer and related tools
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| 3 | Glyph & Cog, LLC is pleased to announce a new version of Xpdf, the
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| 4 | open source Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer. The Xpdf project
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| 5 | also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and
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| 6 | various other utilities.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | *** The Xpdf web site has moved to www.xpdfreader.com ***
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| 9 |
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| 10 | Xpdf uses the Qt toolkit and runs on Linux and Windows. The
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| 11 | non-graphical components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) run on Linux,
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| 12 | Unix, Windows, MacOSX, and pretty much any other system with a decent
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| 13 | C++ compiler.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | Major changes:
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| 16 | * Complete rewrite of the xpdf GUI, using Qt instead of Motif.
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| 17 | * Multithreaded rasterization in the viewer - pages are now rasterized
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| 18 | in a separate thread so that scrolling and other UI activity is not
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| 19 | blocked.
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| 20 | * Added a linear text selection mode.
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| 22 | See the `CHANGES' file for a complete list of changes.
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| 23 |
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| 24 | Source (C++ and C) is available, and it should be fairly easy to
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| 25 | compile for Linux and Windows.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | More information, source code, and precompiled binaries are on the
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| 28 | xpdf web page:
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| 30 | http://www.xpdfreader.com/
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| 32 | For information on commercial licensing and consulting, please see the
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| 33 | Glyph & Cog web site:
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| 35 | http://www.glyphandcog.com/
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