dot.KDE: The Road to KDE 4: Okular and Ligature Document Viewers

“Focusing again on applications this week, specifically I’ll
look at two of the promising document viewers for KDE 4, Okular and
Ligature. They are two of the rising stars of KDE 4, but they both
have their roots as KDE 3 applications that have grown up. Read on
for more…

“In the past, KDE has had a wide variety of programs designed
for viewing all sorts of file formats, and using the KParts
technology of KDE, these viewers were able to be embedded into
other KDE applications such as Konqueror as and when they were
needed. Supported formats included TIFF, PDF, PostScript, fax, DjVu
files, and many more. okular and Ligature have grown up from some
of these earlier designs to become much more than simple document
viewers…”

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