Evince

Evince
	; Evince while displaying a PDF document
Basic data
developer	Evince team
Publishing year	January 8, 2005
Current version	3.32.0 ; ( March 14, 2019 )
operating system	Linux , Solaris , BSD , other Unix derivatives , Windows
programming language	C.
category	Document viewer
License	GPL ( Free Software )
German speaking	Yes
	wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince

Evince ( English to evince something show = 'something', something show ') is a document viewer for document file formats such as Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript for different operating systems and part of the desktop environment Gnome . In many Linux distributions with a GTK + -based desktop environment, it is part of the standard pre-installed basic equipment, including Ubuntu , Linux Mint and Fedora .

Evince is distributed as free software also in source code under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is mainly written in C , the interface for the Poppler library used in C ++ and uses the GUI toolkit GTK + for the graphical user interface (usual in GNOME) .

At the end of 2011, when the desktop environment MATE was split off from Gnome 2 , the development path for Evince was split up and renamed Atril for MATE . From version 1.10 of June 11, 2015, this supports the EPUB book file format .

history

Evince goes back to the GNOME PDF Viewer (GPdf), which was a superstructure to Xpdf based on Bonobo and GTK + 1.2 and later its successor Poppler . This was a pure PDF viewer.

Evince began as a rewrite of the GPdf code, which was difficult to maintain. Evince was supposed to replace the various document viewers of the Gnome desktop environment with a single, easy-to-use application. After a short development period, Evince exceeded the functionality of its predecessors.

From version 2.12 of September 7, 2005, Evince is part of Gnome and replaces GPdf and Gnome GhostView (GGV) here. In 2006, Evince received a programming grant from Google as part of the Google Summer of Code . From version 2.28 of Gnome (September 23, 2009) a Windows version is also available.

Functions

search: Integrated search that highlights the number of results on the page.
Page preview: Thumbnails of the pages in the sidebar provide a quick overview for navigating the document.
Page index: If the documents support this, Evince displays the index tree for quick navigation.
selection: Evince allows the selection of text in the documents.
Use in conjunction with LaTeX: Evince allows open files to be modified by other programs. This makes it suitable for displaying documents generated by LaTeX . The updated PDF or PS document is automatically reloaded and the same page is displayed. With Adobe Reader , this is only possible in the latest versions under Linux.

Supported document formats

Evince supports many different formats, an up-to-date list can be found on the website. Despite the many document formats, Evince is still far from its goal of being a universal document viewer. Not only is there a lack of support for popular formats in Microsoft Office ( Word , Excel ), but also in the open source world ( AbiWord , OpenOffice.org ) and in some cases important standard formats such as EPUB. Since Linux distributions are usually not for If individual formats preinstall separate individual applications, this also applies to the standard installation of many distributions.

Contain

Portable Document Format (PDF) using the Poppler - backends
PostScript using the Ghostscript backend
Device independent file format (DVI)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
DjVu
Comic book format (CBZ or CBR)

Optional

Microsoft PowerPoint (not stable)
XML Paper Specification (XPS, via libgxps)

Planned

Web links

Official website

Commons : Evince - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ftp.gnome.org .
↑ gitlab.gnome.org . March 14, 2019.
^ The Evince Open Source Project on Open Hub. In: openhub.net. Retrieved November 8, 2015 .
↑ Mate 1.10: GNOME2 replica takes a step into the future. In: derStandard.at. Retrieved November 6, 2015 (Spin-off date: November 9, 2011).
↑ Christoph Langner: Free PDF reader Evince 2.28 for Windows. In: Linux and me. September 26, 2009, accessed April 10, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e / Apps / Evince / Features. In: wiki.gnome.org. Retrieved April 10, 2015 .
↑ wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats
↑ EPUB support in Evince. In: Marta Milakovic. Retrieved November 7, 2015 .
↑ Supported Document Formats. In: wiki.gnome.org. Retrieved April 10, 2015 .

[_47087883d2633673-1] tp.gnome.org .

[_eeaccdf0f1eb47b3-2] tlab.gnome.org . March 14, 2019.

[3] The Evince Open Source Project on Open Hub. In: openhub.net. Retrieved November 8, 2015 .

[4] Mate 1.10: GNOME2 replica takes a step into the future. In: derStandard.at. Retrieved November 6, 2015 (Spin-off date: November 9, 2011).

[5] Christoph Langner: Free PDF reader Evince 2.28 for Windows. In: Linux and me. September 26, 2009, accessed April 10, 2015 .

[feat-6] / Apps / Evince / Features. In: wiki.gnome.org. Retrieved April 10, 2015 .

[7] wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/SupportedDocumentFormats

[8] EPUB support in Evince. In: Marta Milakovic. Retrieved November 7, 2015 .

[docs-9] Supported Document Formats. In: wiki.gnome.org. Retrieved April 10, 2015 .