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@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ Xpdf ==== -version 3.03 -2011-aug-15 +version 3.04 +2014-may-28 The Xpdf software and documentation are -copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC. +copyright 1996-2014 Glyph & Cog, LLC. Email: derekn@foolabs.com WWW: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ the name of Adobe's PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities. -Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X +Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX and OS/2. The non-X components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Windows and Mac OSX systems and should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler. Xpdf will run on 32-bit and 64-bit machines. @@ -68,9 +68,9 @@ Xpdf is developed and tested on Linux. In addition, it has been compiled by others on Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Digital Unix, Irix, and numerous other Unix implementations, as well -as VMS and OS/2. It should work on pretty much any system which runs -X11 and has Unix-like libraries. You'll need ANSI C++ and C compilers -to compile it. +as OS/2. It should work on pretty much any system which runs X11 and +has Unix-like libraries. You'll need ANSI C++ and C compilers to +compile it. The non-X components of Xpdf (pdftops, pdftotext, pdfinfo, pdffonts, pdfdetach, pdftoppm, and pdfimages) can also be compiled on Windows @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ their man pages): pdfimages -- extracts the images from a PDF file Command line options and many other details are described in the man -pages (xpdf(1), etc.) and the VMS help files (xpdf.hlp, etc.). +pages: xpdf(1), etc. All of these utilities read an optional configuration file: see the xpdfrc(5) man page. @@ -182,6 +182,15 @@ bug listed here, please send me email, with a pointer (URL, ftp site, etc.) to the PDF file. +Third-Party Libraries +--------------------- + +Xpdf uses the following libraries: +* FreeType [http://www.freetype.org/] +* libpng [http://www.libpng.com/pub/png/libpng.html] (used by pdftohtml) +* zlib [http://zlib.net/] (used by pdftohtml) + + Acknowledgments --------------- |