Evince

Evince is a document viewer for both Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript documents for the GNOME desktop environment. The goal of Evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on GNOME, like GGV, GPdf, and xpdf with a single simple application.

Evince began as a rewrite of the gpdf code which most people thought was getting unwieldy to maintain. In a short period of time it surpassed the functionality of gpdf. Evince is being actively maintained and developed.

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

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 where you'd like to go in 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.

Supported document formats

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

Built-in support

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

Optional support

DjVu using the DjVuLibre backend
Microsoft Powerpoint using libpreview (currently alpha-quality)

Possible or planned to support

Images (currently included as a toy, needs work)

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