Evince

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Evince

Evince 3.10.0 displaying a PDF
Developer(s) The Evince Team[1]
Stable release 3.10 (26 September 2013 (2013-09-26)) [±][2]
Preview release 3.9.90 (23 August 2013 (2013-08-23)) [±][3]
Operating system Linux, Solaris, BSD, other Unix-like, Windows
Type Document viewer
License GNU General Public License
Website projects.gnome.org/evince/

Evince is a document viewer for PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF, XPS and DVI designed for the GNOME desktop environment.[4]

The developers of Evince intended to replace the multiple GNOME document viewers with a single and simple application. The Evince motto sums up the project aim: "Simply a Document Viewer".[4]

GNOME has included Evince since the release of GNOME 2.12 in September 2005. It is written mainly in C, with a small part (the code that interfaces with poppler) written in C++. A large number of Linux distributions include Evince as the default document viewer including Ubuntu, Fedora and Linux Mint.

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

History

Evince began as a rewrite of GPdf, which its support programmers had started to find unwieldy to maintain. Evince quickly surpassed the functionality of GPdf and replaced both GPdf and GGV in the September 2005 release of GNOME 2.12.[5][6]

Evince is included on the VALO-CD, a collection of "all the best Windows programs".[7][8]

Features

Evince incorporates an integrated search that displays the number of results found and highlights the results on the page. Users can optionally display (in the left sidebar of the viewer) thumbnails of pages to assist in page navigation within a document. When documents support indices, Evince gives the option of showing the document index for quickly moving from one section to another.[9]

Evince can show two pages at a time, left and right, and offers full-screen and slide-show views.

Evince allows the selection of text in PDF files and allows users to highlight and copy text from documents made from scanned images, if the PDF includes OCR data.

Evince used to obey the DRM restrictions of PDF files, which may prevent copying, printing, or converting some PDF files, however this has been made optional, and turned off by default in gconf.[10][11][12][13]

Supported document formats

Evince supports many different single and multi-page document formats:[14]

Built-in support
  • PDF using the Poppler backend
  • PostScript using the Ghostscript backend
  • Multi-Page TIFF
  • DVI
  • DjVu using the DjVuLibre backend
  • OpenDocument Presentation when built with the --enable-impress option
  • Images (currently included as a toy, but needs work)
  • CBR, CBZ, CB7 (Comic Book Archive file)
Optional support
Possible or planned support

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Evince/Team - GNOME Live!". wiki.gnome.org. 2011-08-06. Retrieved 2012-08-16. 
  2. ↑ Clasen, Matthias (26 September 2013), GNOME 3.10 Released, GNOME mailing list, retrieved 26 September 2013 
  3. ↑ Clasen, Matthias (23 August 2013), GNOME 3.9.90, GNOME mailing list, retrieved 27 Aug 2013 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gnome.org (March 2012). "Evince - Simply a Document Viewer". Retrieved 15 March 2012. 
  5. ↑ Villa, Louis (June 2005). "ggv/gpdf and evince". Retrieved 26 June 26. 
  6. ↑ Cumming, Murray, Davyd Madeley et al. (undated). "GNOME 2.12 Release Notes". Retrieved 2009-05-15. 
  7. ↑ VALO-CD programs, retrieved 24 February 2012
  8. ↑ "The Best of Free and Open Source Software for Windows". Valo-Cd. Retrieved 2012-08-16. 
  9. ↑ The GNOME Project (February 2008). "Evince - Features". Retrieved 2009-05-11. 
  10. ↑ PDF printing restrictions "The document viewer overrides this restriction by default"
  11. ↑ Bug 305818 - allow the user to override document restrictions
  12. ↑ DRM protected PDF files
  13. ↑ Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions
  14. ↑ wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats

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