Evince 0.6.1 review

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats like pdf, postscript, and many others

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Nickolay V. Shmyrev

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Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats like pdf, postscript, and many others. Evince's goal is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop, like gpdf, ggv, and xpdf with a single simple application.

Here are some key features of "Evince":
Supported formats:

PDF
Postscript
DJVU
DVI
Multipage tiff

Plans to include:

Comic book (*.cbr)
Powerpoint presentations
OO Impress presentations

Evince has a lot of useful features, like indexing, fast searching, easy reading. It also provides nice thumbnails for all supported document types in nautilus.

Search

Integrated search displaying 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 to show the document index for quick jumping from one section to another.

Requirements:
Evince 0.3.2 require latest poppler, and standard gnome libraries.
For djvu support you also should have djvulibre.