Project Summary
okular is an universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4.
Its development began as part of Google's Summer of Code program. The description of the project is located at KDE Developer's Corner.
okular combines the excellent functionalities of KPDF with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, and others.
The document format handlers page has a chart describing in more detail the supported formats and the features supported in each of them.
In a Nutshell, Okular (KDE)...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 42 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in August, 2002
ending with its most recent commit about 20 hours ago
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Project Security
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