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Evince
Other namesGNOME Document Viewer
Developer(s)The Evince Team[1]
Stable release
46.3[2]Edit this on Wikidata / 25 May 2024;3 months ago(25 May 2024)
Repository
Written inPrimarilyC,C++
Operating systemLinuxand otherUnix-likesystems
TypeDocument viewer
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince

Evince(/ˈɛvɪns/), also known asGNOME Document Viewer,is afree and open-sourcedocument viewersupporting manydocument file formatsincludingPDF,PostScript,DjVu,TIFF,XPSandDVI.It is designed for theGNOMEdesktop environment.[3]

The developers of Evince intended to replace the multiple GNOMEdocumentviewers with a single and simpleapplication.The Evince motto sums up the project aim: "Simply a Document Viewer".[3]

GNOME releases have included Evince since GNOME 2.12 (September 2005). Evince's code is written mainly inC,with a small part (specifically, the interface withPoppler) written inC++.ManyLinux distributions—includingUbuntu,Fedora LinuxandLinux Mint—include Evince as the default document viewer.

Evince is free and open-source software subject to the requirements of theGNU General Public Licenseversion 2 or later.

The Evince FAQ highlights the meaning of the word "Evince" as "to show or express something clearly".[4]

History

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Evince began as a rewrite of GPdf,[5]which its support programmers had started to find unwieldy tomaintain.Evince quickly surpassed the functionality of GPdf and replaced both GPdf and GGV in the September 2005 release ofGNOME2.12.[6][7]

There was at one time a Windows version of Evince and it was then included on theVALO-CD,a collection of "Best of Free and Open Source Software for Windows".[8][9][10]

Features

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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 leftsidebarof the viewer)thumbnailsof 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.[11]

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 theDRMrestrictions of PDF files, which may prevent copying, printing, or converting some PDF files, however this has been made optional, and turned off by default ingconf.[12][13][14][15]

Since version 3.18.2 evince allows for text and highlight annotations of documents.[citation needed]

Supported document formats

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Evince supports many different single and multi-page document formats:[16]

Built-in support
Optional support
Possible or planned support
Not supported

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Evince/Team – GNOME Live!".wiki.gnome.org. 6 August 2011.Archivedfrom the original on 5 March 2016.Retrieved16 August2012.
  2. ^"Evince 46.3".
  3. ^ab"Apps/Evince - GNOME Wiki!".GNOME.Archivedfrom the original on 27 December 2019.Retrieved4 January2020.
  4. ^"Frequently Asked Questions about Evince".The GNOME Project. 13 October 2015.Archivedfrom the original on 7 August 2016.Retrieved28 July2016.Q: What does the word Evince mean? [...] A: Evince means to show or express something clearly.
  5. ^"Gpdf - Free Software Directory".directory.fsf.org.Retrieved21 August2022.
  6. ^Villa, Louis (June 2005)."ggv/gpdf and evince".Archivedfrom the original on 11 April 2016.Retrieved14 May2016.
  7. ^"GNOME 2.12 Release Notes".Archivedfrom the original on 22 November 2017.Retrieved4 January2020.
  8. ^KekÀlÀinen, Otto."VALO-CD".VALO-CD.Archivedfrom the original on 22 July 2012.Retrieved16 June2020.
  9. ^VALO-CD programsArchived2017-12-13 at theWayback Machine,retrieved 24 February 2012
  10. ^"The Best of Free and Open Source Software for Windows".Valo-Cd.Archivedfrom the original on 22 July 2012.Retrieved16 August2012.
  11. ^The GNOME Project (February 2008)."Evince – Features".Archivedfrom the original on 4 March 2016.Retrieved11 May2009.
  12. ^PDF printing restrictionsArchived2014-09-11 at theWayback Machine"Thedocument vieweroverrides this restriction by default "
  13. ^"Bug 305818 – allow the user to override document restrictions".bugzilla.gnome.org.Archivedfrom the original on 1 April 2019.Retrieved6 November2017.
  14. ^"DRM protected PDF files".nabble.Archived fromthe originalon 3 March 2016.Retrieved6 November2017.
  15. ^"Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions [LWN.net]".lwn.net.Archivedfrom the original on 25 May 2021.Retrieved6 November2017.
  16. ^"Apps/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats - GNOME Wiki!".wiki.gnome.org.Archivedfrom the original on 7 November 2017.Retrieved6 November2017.
  17. ^"evince - View multipage documents".git.gnome.org.Archivedfrom the original on 29 April 2011.Retrieved6 November2017.
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