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Written in
  
C / C++

License
  
GNU GPL

Type
  
Document viewer

BePDF

Initial release
  
0.1.0 (29 July 2000; 16 years ago (2000-07-29))

Preview release
  
1.1.1b5 (6 May 2011; 5 years ago (2011-05-06)) [±]

Operating system
  
BeOS, Haiku, and magnussoft ZETA

BePDF is a free software PDF reader for Haiku, BeOS, and magnussoft ZETA. It is based on Xpdf. It was added in Haiku R1 alpha 1 as its sole PDF reader.

The source code for BePDF is available via GitHub after a migration from SourceForge.

Features

BePDF supports the following 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).
  • Support for hyperlinks within the file.
  • Support for user-defined bookmarks for unencrypted files.
  • 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 full-screen mode.
  • Japanese, Chinese (simplified, traditional) and Korean font support.
  • Renders embedded fonts (Type 1 and 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).
  • Localization for over 20 languages.

    • References

    BePDF Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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