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About BePDF:

This is a PDF reader that is based on xpdf 3.01. It handles PDF files up to PDF version 1.4 (Acrobat Reader 5.0).

List of Features

Viewing of encrypted and password protected PDF 1.5 files.
- Opens file dropped on window.
- Navigation (with keyboard, toolbar, dragging with the mouse, mouse wheel, links).
- Displays annotations.
- Zooming (in/out, selecting a rectangle with the mouse).
- Rotating the page.
- Can show a page list, bookmarks and attachments.
- Window mode or fullscreen mode.
- Japanese, Chinese (simplified, traditional) and Korean font support.
- Renders embedded fonts (Type 1, Truetype) with FreeType 2 library.
- Multithreaded (rendering is done in a separate thread).
Editing (Annotations can be added to an unencrypted PDF file)
File Attachment Annotations and Attachments can be saved.
Printing (range of pages; even or odd pages only; reverse or in order).
Searching text.
Copying text or graphics (via drag and drop to other applications (e.g. Tracker) and into the clipboard).
Session management for PDF files on BFS (open file with the settings when it was last closed).
Information (about the file, security, fonts used).

Sourcecode is available via anonymous cvs here (modulename: BePDF).

Translators wanted

Some .catalog files are not up to date anymore. See section "Localization" of the BePDF manual on how to localize BePDF.

Details about this version:

Note to all users: Please report bugs.

Note to modem users: This packages contains encoding tables for CJK font support (Chinese, Japanese, Korean). Without these tables the size of the BePDF installation package is about 2 MB only. Probably the CJK encoding tables will not change very frequently and could be provided as separate downloads. Please let me know if there is a demand for this variant.

Note to PPC users: if there is still one who uses BeOS regularly, let me know and I will provide a PPC version.

Changes Beta 2:

Bug fix: Find TrueType fonts in BePDFs fonts directory.

Changes Beta 1:

New: Added support for additional font encodings and CID fonts. Included are Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese simplified and traditional, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin2, Thai and Turkish encoding tables.

New: Case-sensitive search and search backwards.

New: New layout of print settings dialog. Enabled monochrome printing mode.

New: Added list of attachments. Saving selected attachment to file or multiple selected attachments into directory.

New: Saving copy of PDF file in separate thread.

New: Saving of File Attachment Annotations.

New: Use installed system fonts for 13 of base 14 fonts instead of URW fonts (to improve font rendering quality).

New: Upgraded to xpdf 3.01.

New: Use FreeType2 for rendering of Type 1 fonts instead of T1lib (to improve font rendering quality).

New: Upgrade to FreeType 2.1.10.

New: Removed alternative Ghostscript renderer. The rendering issues of previous versions should have been fixed by using xpdfs own PDF renderer.

Bug fix: Restore position of page list after starting of BePDF.

Bug fix: Use native renderer for annotations to avoid "ghost" annotations after they have been changed.