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tpdfview (tiny PDF viewer, or tokkee's PDF viewer, choose whatever you like
- best) displays PDF files. It was developed with presentations and
- accompanying material in mind.
+ best) is a Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer. It was developed with
+ presentations and accompanying material in mind.
This is free and open source software, licensed under the 2-clause BSD
license. See COPYING for details.
* A POSIX + Single UNIX Specification compatible C library.
+ * asciidoc, xsltproc:
+ The AsciiDoc text document format is used to write the manpages.
+
+ * libcairo:
+ The 2D vector graphics library is used for the actual drawing of the PDF
+ on screen.
+
+ * libgtk-2.0:
+ The cross-plattform GIMP Toolkit (GTK+) is used to create the graphical
+ user interface.
+
+ * libpoppler-glib:
+ The (GLib-based) PDF rendering library is used for handling the PDF files.
+
Configuring / Compiling / Installing
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