poppler-compat: poppler-compat (a library for rendering PDF documents) poppler-compat: poppler-compat: Poppler is a library based on the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek poppler-compat: Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC. Since xpdf does not provide a shared poppler-compat: library, whenever a flaw was found potentially dozens of applications poppler-compat: incorporating code from xpdf would have to be patched. By providing poppler-compat: a centralized PDF library this duplicated effort will be eliminated. poppler-compat: This package contains the shared libraries of older releases, poppler-compat: to be used on slackware-current for compatibility reasons. poppler-compat: poppler-compat: poppler homepage: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/