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This list of PDF software includes notable computer software used to manage PDF documents.

Contents 1 Multi-platform 1.1 Free and open source 1.2 Proprietary 2 X11/Motif 3 Linux 4 Mac OS X 5 Windows 6 External links

• Ghostscript – viewer, creator and converter
• GSPdf – viewer for GNUstep, based on Ghostscript
• iText – Java-based creator, editor and converter
• KPDF – KDE's viewer; based on Xpdf.
• Multivalent – Java-based viewer
• OpenOffice.org – office suite, can export to PDF
• PDFBox – Java library
• PdfTeX – converter (from TeX)
• Pdftk – creator, editor and converter (iText frontend)
• ReportLab – Python-based creator
• Scribus – creator
• Xpdf - PDF view for X windows system
• cairo - Vector drawing library which can create PDF documents

• Adobe Acrobat – Adobe's desktop PDF creator, commercial
• Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator – Adobe's server-based PDF generator, commercial
• Adobe Reader – Adobe's PDF reader, offered at no cost
• Foxit Reader – another PDF viewer, also offered at no cost
• PDFNet SDK – PDF library for reading, writing, editing, printing and viewing PDFs
• RasterMaster – viewer and conversion toolkit
• txt2pdf – old textual reports to nice pdfs converter
• Crionics jPDF – Java components for PDF manupulations
• Qoppa Software – Java libraries and components for viewing, printing, creating and modifying PDF documents.

• Xpdf

• CUPS – printing system, can export to PDF
• Evince – viewer (for GNOME)
• flpsed – annotator
• GPdf – viewer (for GNOME, replaced by Evince)
• gv – part of Ghostscript
• KPDF – viewer (for KDE)
• Foxit Reader – viewer
• Poppler – library for viewing
• Xpdf – viewer (for X Window System)
• PDFedit – editor
• PDF Studio – viewer, annotator, scan to PDF

• Preview – Apple's default PDF viewer
• ColorSync Utility – Apple's image utility
• PDFView – free, lightweight viewer
• PDF-Office Professional – commercial PDF form creation software

• ABBYY PDF Transformer – shareware creator and converter
• ABCpdf – proprietary library for creation, manipulation and rendering
• Brava Reader – no-cost, proprietary viewer
• CAD-KAS PDF Reader proprietary freeware PDF reader and commercial writer
• CutePDF – adware converter
• Docudesk deskPDF Professional – shareware PDF writer for printing PDFs
• Docudesk deskUNPDF – shareware PDF converter for opening PDFs in Word
• doPDF – freeware Free PDF converter, doesn't use Ghostscript
• Foxit Reader – freeware proprietary viewer
• Gnostice PDFToolkit – shareware Complete toolkit with PDF embedding functionality in Application development[basically a library]
• NitroPDF – proprietary, commercial viewer, creator, editor and converter
• novaPDF – shareware PDF creator
• pdfFactory – proprietary, commercial low cost creator and converter
• PDF995 – proprietary, commercial low cost creator and toolkit
• PDF FLY – commercial converter to vector, bitmap, ascii formats; batch & DLL
• PDF-Office Professional – proprietary, commercial PDF form creation software
• PDF Converter – proprietary, commercial viewer, creator and converter
• PDFCreator – free creator (FOSS)
• PrimoPDF – free creator / PDF printer driver ( No adverts )
• Amyuni PDF Converter and Creator – proprietary, commercial creator and converter
• sharpPDF – C# PDF library.
• SolidConverter – (Shareware) PDF creator and converter
• Sumatra PDF – Open source PDF viewer for windows

• PDF at the Open Directory Project (suggest site)
• PDF software at the Open Directory Project (suggest site)