Evince

Infobox Software
name = Evince



caption = Evince displaying a PDF
developer = The Evince Team
latest_release_version = 2.24.0
latest_release_date = release date|2008|9|22
latest_preview_version = 2.23.4
latest_preview_date = release date|2008|6|19
operating_system = Linux, Solaris, BSD, other Unix-like
genre = Document viewer
license = GNU General Public License
website = http://gnome.org/projects/evince/

Evince is a document viewer for PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI documents for the GNOME desktop environment. In developing the application the aim was to replace the multiple GNOME document viewers with a single and simple application. cite web|url = http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/|title = Evince - Simply a Document Viewer|accessdate = 2008-06-26|last = Gnome.org|authorlink = |year = 2008|month = June]

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.

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 GPdf and GGV, the default Postscript viewer in GNOME, are no longer maintained. cite web|url = http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-June/msg00057.html|title = ggv/gpdf and evince|accessdate = 2008-06-26|last = Villa|first = Louis|authorlink = |year = 2005|month = June]

Developers

As of June 2008 the Evince development team included: [ cite web|url = http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Team|title = The Evince Team|accessdate = 2008-06-17|last = The GNOME Project|authorlink = |year = 2007]

*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

References

External links

* [http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/ Evince Home Page]
* [http://live.gnome.org/Evince Evince Wiki]