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 Published by Michael Pfeiffer
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 Date Posted:   July 29th, 2000
 Last Updated:   August 28th, 2005
 License: See Below
 Downloads: 77,486 total; 2 recently
 Page Views: 167,266 total
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8.97 / 10, with 324 votes
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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.
BePDF
version 1.0.0 Beta 2 - GPL 
   
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.
  • Bug fix: Crash during printing a page.
  • Bug fix: Tooltip should be displayed under Zeta.

Update: See http://www.killyourfm.com/download for PDF files that contain attached MP3 files.



 
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Here you can download the BePDF User Manual in other language(s) than English.

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