PDFium is an open-source project which was developed by Foxit and Google. Google is responsible for some of the most important open-source projects of our time and Foxit is honored to be chosen as the PDF providers for the PDFium project. PDFium provides developers the opportunity to leverage a high performance standards-compliant PDF open-source software library to view, search, print PDF documents, and fill form in PDF documents. It also has been wrapped into Google’s Chrome browser, which replaced codes that was previously closed source
- Build system is changed to 'cmake' as standard de-facto build tool in the c++ world;
- JS (V8) and XFA support are disabled without any plans to have them. So the result is lightweight and ideally fits for reader programs.
- Was slightly reduced external dependencies. I e was removed
abseil-cpp; - Is possible to enable/disable hieroglyph cmaps;
- ICU;
- FastFloat;
- libjpeg;
- zlib;
- freetype;
- LCMS2;
- openjpeg;
Only Linux builds is supported. In the plans to add Windows, Android, MacOS