Evince

Evince displaying a PDF
Developer:	Red Hat Desktop Team
Latest release:	0.6.1 / 9 October 2006
OS:	Linux, Solaris, BSD, other Unix-like
Use:	Document viewer
License:	GPL
Website:	gnome.org/projects/evince/

Evince is a free software 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. Download high resolution version (610x629, 48 KB) The Evince PDF Viewer File links The following pages link to this file: Evince Categories: GFDL images ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Red Hat, Inc. ... It has been suggested that Desktop metaphor,Paper paradigm be merged into this article or section. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Linux refers to any Unix-like computer operating system which uses the Linux kernel. ... Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Diagram of the relationships between several Unix-like systems A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... PDF redirects here. ... PostScript (PS) is a page description language and programming language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. ... The GNOME project is an international effort to create an easy-to-use computing platform built entirely from free software. ... It has been suggested that Desktop metaphor,Paper paradigm be merged into this article or section. ... A document contains information. ... GPdf is a derivative of Xpdf for GNOME. It has not been updated since March 7, 2005, and has been superseded by Evince. ... In computing, Xpdf is an open source PDF viewer for the X Window System, running under Unix and Unix-like systems such as Linux, OpenVMS, and OS/2. ... Application software is a defined subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ...

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. In software engineering, software maintenance is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ...

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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.

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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

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Optional support

• DjVu using the DjVuLibre backend
• Microsoft Powerpoint using libpreview (currently alpha-quality)
• OpenDocument Presentation when built with --enable-impress

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Possible or planned to support

• Images (currently included as a toy, needs work)

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