Projects

Evince

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.

Ghostscript

Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language. A PostScript interpreter usually takes as input a set of graphics commands. The output is usually a page bitmap which is then sent to an output device such as a printer or display. It also includes a graphics library and a PDF interpreter ... [More] written in PostScript. It can act as a general vector graphics conversion engine, converting PostScript or PDF documents to other vector and raster formats. [Less]

Scribus

Scribus is a desktop page layout program with the aim of producing commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript.

Okular (KDE)

claimed by KDE

okular is an universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4. Its development began as part of Google's Summer of Code program. The description of the project is located at KDE Developer's Corner. okular combines the excellent functionalities of KPDF with the versatility of ... [More] supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, and others. The document format handlers page has a chart describing in more detail the supported formats and the features supported in each of them. [Less]

Apache FOP

claimed by Apache Software Foundation

Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported ... [More] include PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT, MIF and TXT. [Less]

TeX Live

TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with TeX. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, and also Windows. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many ... [More] languages around the world. TeX Live is the successor to teTeX. [Less]

Kile

claimed by KDE

Kile is a user friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop environment. It simplifies the creation of LaTeX documents.

GNU LilyPond Music Typesetter

LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

Potrace

Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap (PBM, PGM, PPM, or BMP format), and the default output is an encapsulated PostScript file (EPS). A typical use is to create EPS files from scanned data, such as company ... [More] or university logos, handwritten notes, etc. The resulting image is not "jaggy" like a bitmap, but smooth. It can then be rendered at any resolution. Potrace can currently produce the following output formats: EPS, PostScript, PDF, SVG (scalable vector graphics), Xfig, Gimppath, and PGM (for easy antialiasing). Additional backends might be added in the future. [Less]

txt2tags

Txt2tags converts a text file with minimal markup to HTML, XHTML, SGML, LaTeX, Lout, UNIX man page, MoinMoin, MagicPoint (mgp) and PageMaker. Features: simple, fast, automatic TOC, macros, filters, include, tools, GUI/CLI/Web interfaces, extensive docs.