Open Source BSD PDF Editors

TeXworks is a free and simple working environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX) documents. Inspired by Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop program for Mac OS X, it makes entry into the TeX world easier for those using desktop operating systems other than OS X. It provides an integrated, easy-to-use environment for users on other platforms particularly GNU/Linux and Windows and features a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users.

PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.

NOTE: Active development has moved to https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio Please post issues and feature requests there. TeXstudio is a fully featured LaTeX editor. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible. Some of the outstanding features of TeXstudio are an integrated pdf viewer with (almost) word-level synchronization, live inline preview, advanced syntax-highlighting, live checking of references, citations, latex commands, spelling and grammar. Find out more at our website.

Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface.

dompdf - the PHP 5 HTML to PDF converter. dompdf is a (mostly) CSS compliant HTML rendering engine written in PHP. It supports external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. Requires PHP 5.

LilyPond editor based on JEdit, implemented as a JEdit plugin. It is an edit mode and a feature rich plug-in, which provides tools for making LilyPond scores. Features include instant completion, error report, PDF preview.

A simple online service for PDF conversion. This project is a simple library and also a web application. It offers a REST service and a simple upload service for synchronous conversion. This library/application doesn't contain conversion libraries because it's a wrapper for existing tools. toPDF currently supports the open source tool PDF Creator (http://www.pdfforge.org) and the commercial solution, easy PDF, from BCL (http://www.pdfonline.com/easypdf/sdk/).

gPDFText is a text editor for GTK+ that opens PDF documents for ebook readers, converts the text contents into plain ASCII text, restores the original paragraphs and removes unwanted line breaks to allow easier zooming on the reader.

gv allows a user to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter. It is based on an older viewer called Ghostview by Tim Thiesen.

An opensource typesetting environment for editing and publishing Carnatic music books in Indian languages. Supports Phonetic Translation of notation & lyrics and uses CFugue Runtime to automatically generate MIDI song files from the music notation.

DUPS can be used to present any set of images depicting a chronological sequence. It creates a set of HTML pages acting as a browser based picture/pdf viewer. The emphasis lies on displaying two pictures side by side enabling the user to compare them.

As long as there are more pages than cores, every core will get a workout. Light on dependencies, trimming borders, and aggressive caching are its major points.

PDF Annot is a piece of software that enables you to add audio and text annotation to a PDF. It uses JPedal SimpleViewer and iText library. Annotations are supported by Adobe'sofficial PDF Reader. Report any bug here: krakosia[at]gmail.com

Bric is a cross-platform batch image processor. You can convert, resize, rotate and add watermark to your images. Multiple file types are supported for input and output. The project started back in 2011 and was maintained for a couple of years. In 2020 BRIC is again in active development, so some of the features written below might be outdated. Please be patient, until everything is reviewed and rewritten.

Convert copy. Pipes existing converter tools together to convert files from a format to another. E.g. add the converters 'pdf -> text' and 'text -> wav' and you can convert pdf to wav. Automatically installs missing converters in Debian.

Chordeus is yet another Chord Pro to PDF converter that creates nice looking guitar chord sheets. You can create single sheets or a whole songbook using the command line tool or a simple wizard-like GUI.

DjVu++ is a user-friendly program that used to manipulate DjVu file formats such as eBooks with a penalty of editing features. The program introduce a free replacement for the property PDF format with similar resolution and smaller file size DjVu++ also support OCR to handle text in scanned books and images. The program shows good performance for English. In addition to the Arabic language to lead free and commercial software in this area. The main features of DjVu++ program are: o Manipulate DjVu files. o Support smaller size than PDF with the same performance. o DjVu++ supports two languages in the OCR technique (Arabic and English). o Read multiple documents at the same time with the new tabs feature. o DjVu++ supports multiple formats:  Convert PDF document into DjVu format with smaller file size and the same performance.  Convert DjVu into PDF format.  Combine images to a single DjVu document. Perform OCR operations on multiple image formats.

Dare-Dare stands for Document Ajax Reader Extension. It's a full javascript online pdf reader. No flash, no closed sources !!!!

This project is powered by FCKeditor and iText library. This promotes iText to new WYSIWYG editor level. FCKeditor is now not only HTML editor but also PDF editor Here is the Korean font supported FCKitext...Please download English version at http://

fax2pdf provides a means to convert sets of G3 fax pages (encoded in a TIFF variant) into PDF. This can be used to convert fax pages received with eg. HylaFAX into a file format readily accessible/viewable with programs on most platforms.

JPDF Export is a java library built on the famous iText library. It provides simple functions that can be used to build complex pdf files. It also provides simple classes to merge, split and convert pdf files

Jacrobat is a free open source PDF editor that will support all functionalities of a simple word processor. Advanced functionalities will be added as the project matures.

Jaiom (Java All In One MediaProcessing Server) intends to provide a simple to use webservices based, media processing facade which processes videos, photos, pdf and MS Office media types using many different kind media processing engines.

Java based tool to convert HTML/DHTM to PDF document.

Lightweight/Minimalist general purpose Linux distribution based on TinyCore Linux Minux is loaded with FLTK and GTK based applications JWM - Window Manager FlaxPDF - PDF Reader Rendera - Painting Program Dillo - Web Browser FLBurn - Burning Software Fluff - File Manager FlPicsee - Picture Viewer Flgames - FLTK Games XMMS - Audio Player MtPaint - Image Editor And much more Compiler/Interpreter/Assembler also available ISO Image only 24 MB