Evince

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Evince
Evince displaying a PDF
Developed by	The Evince Team
Latest release	2.22.2 / 28 May 2008
OS	Linux, Solaris, BSD, other Unix-like
Genre	Document viewer
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://gnome.org/projects/evince/

Evince is a document viewer for both PDF and PostScript documents for the GNOME desktop environment. The goal of Evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on GNOME with a single, simple application.

Evince has been included in GNOME since GNOME 2.12, released on 7 September 2005. It is written mainly in C, with a small part (the code that interfaces with poppler) written in C++.

Released under the GNU General Public License, Evince is free software.

[edit] History

Evince began as a rewrite of GPdf, which most people thought was getting unwieldy to maintain. In a short period of time it surpassed the functionality of GPdf. GPdf and GGV, the default Postscript viewer in GNOME, are no longer maintained.^[1]

[edit] Features

• Search: Integrated search that displays the number of results found and highlights the results on the page.
• Page thumbnails: Thumbnails of pages show quick reference for page navigation within a document. Evince's thumbnails are available in the left sidebar of the viewer.
• Page indexing: For documents that support indexes Evince gives the option of showing the document index for quick moving from one section to another.
• Selection: Evince allows selecting text in PDF files.
• Dual: Evince may show two pages (left, right) at a time.

[edit] Supported document formats

Evince supports many different single and multipage document formats. Here is the list of formats that are currently supported.

[edit] Built-in support

• PDF using the poppler backend
• PostScript using the Ghostscript backend
• Multi-Page TIFF

[edit] Optional support

• DVI
• DjVu using the DjVuLibre backend
• OpenDocument Presentation when built with --enable-impress
• Images (currently included as a toy, but needs work)
• Comic book

[edit] Possible or planned to support

• Microsoft PowerPoint using libpreview (currently alpha-quality)

[edit] See also

Free software Portal

• List of PDF software

[edit] References

1. ^ ggv/gpdf and evince

[edit] External links

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• Evince Home Page
• Evince Wiki

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