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.png) GNOME Evince 40 (released in March 2021) | |
| Other names | GNOME Document Viewer |
| Developer | The Evince Team[1] |
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| Written in | PrimarilyC,C++ |
| Operating system | Linux and otherUnix-like systems |
| Successor | GNOME Papers |
| Type | Document viewer |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | wiki |
| Repository | |
Evince (/ˈɛvɪns/), also known asGNOME Document Viewer, is afree and open-sourcedocument viewer supporting manydocument file formats includingPDF,PostScript,DjVu,TIFF,XPS andDVI. It is designed for theGNOMEdesktop environment.[3]
The developers of Evince intended to replace the multiple GNOMEdocument viewers 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 that ship GNOME as their default desktop environment — includingUbuntu andFedora Linux — include or have included Evince as the default document viewer.
Evince is free and open-source software subject to the requirements of theGNU General Public License version 2 or later.
The Evince FAQ highlights the meaning of the word "Evince" as "to show or express something clearly".[4]
In 2025, Evince will be replaced as the default document viewer in GNOME by aGTK 4 &Libadwaita hard fork of itself calledPapers.[5]
Evince began as a rewrite of GPdf,[6] 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 ofGNOME 2.12.[7][8]
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".[9][10][11]
Ubuntu 25.04 (with their release of GNOME 48) was the first distro to replace Evince with aGTK 4 &Libadwaita hard fork of itself calledPapers.[12] In GNOME 49, Evince will be replaced as the default document viewer by upstream GNOME developers by Papers.[13][5][14][15] Joey Sneddon ofOMG! Ubuntu suggested that the reason that the GNOME developers made a new document viewer application was that it would take a lot of work for Evince, a 20 year old program at the time of the decision, to be ported over to GTK 4 & Libadwaita, hence why a new application hard forked from Evince's codebase was made rather than continuing to rework Evince proper was made. This was similar to whyGedit,Eye of GNOME, andCheese were replaced byGNOME Text Editor,Loupe, and Snapshot respectively rather than port the existing applications over to GTK 4 and Libadwaita.[16]
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 leftsidebar 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.[17]
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 theDRM 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 ingconf.[18][19][20][21]
Since version 3.18.2, Evince allows for text and highlight annotations of documents.[22]
Evince supports many different single and multi-page document formats:[23]
--enable-impress optionQ: What does the word Evince mean? [...] A: Evince means to show or express something clearly.
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