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| Developed by | The Evince Team |
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| Latest release | 2.24.0 / 22 September 2008 |
| Preview release | 2.23.4 / 19 June 2008 |
| OS | Linux, Solaris, BSD, other Unix-like |
| Type | Document viewer |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://gnome.org/projects/evince/ |
Evince is a PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI document viewer for the GNOME desktop environment.[1]
In developing the application the aim was to replace the multiple GNOME document viewers with a single and simple application.[1]
Evince has been included in GNOME since GNOME 2.12, released on 7 September 2005. It is written mainly in C, with a small part (the code that interfaces with poppler) written in C++.
Released under the GNU General Public License, Evince is free software.
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History
Evince began as a rewrite of GPdf, which most people thought was getting unwieldy to maintain. In a short period of time it surpassed the functionality of GPdf. GPdf and GGV, the default Postscript viewer in GNOME, are no longer maintained.[2]
Developers
As of June 2008 the Evince development team included:[3]
- James Bowes
- Jonathan Blandford
- Carlos García Campos
- Bryan Clark
- Kristian Høgsberg
- Martin Kretzschmar
- David Malcolm
- Nickolay V. Shmyrev
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 page navigation within 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.
- Dual: Evince may show two pages (left, right) at a time.
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
- Multi-Page TIFF
Optional support
- DVI
- DjVu using the DjVuLibre backend
- OpenDocument Presentation when built with --enable-impress
- Images (currently included as a toy, but needs work)
- Comic book
Possible or planned to support
- Microsoft PowerPoint using libpreview (currently alpha-quality)
See also
- List of PDF software
- Okular - the counterpart PDF viewer for KDE.
References
- ^ a b Gnome.org (June 2008). "Evince - Simply a Document Viewer". Retrieved on 2008-06-26.
- ^ Villa, Louis (June 2005). "ggv/gpdf and evince". Retrieved on 2008-06-26.
- ^ The GNOME Project (2007). "The Evince Team". Retrieved on 2008-06-17.
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