Developer(s) The Evince Team | Type Document viewer | |
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Stable release 3.22.3 (9 November 2016; 3 months ago (2016-11-09)) [±] Preview release 3.23.91 (1 March 2017; 7 days ago (2017-03-01)) [±] Repository git.gnome.org/browse/evince Operating system | ||
Evince (/ˈɛvɪns/) is a document viewer for PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF, XPS and DVI formats. It was designed for the GNOME desktop environment.
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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".
GNOME releases have included Evince since GNOME 2.12 (September 2005). Evince code consists mainly of C, with a small part (the code that interfaces with poppler) written in C++. A large number of Linux distributions – including Ubuntu, Fedora and Linux Mint – include Evince as the default document-viewer.
Evince is free and open-source software subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
The Evince FAQ highlights the meaning of the word "Evince" as "to show or express something clearly".
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.
Evince is included on the VALO-CD, a collection of "all the best Windows programs".
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.
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.
Supported document formats
Evince supports many different single and multi-page document formats:
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