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Comment by Xeogin
about Evince · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 2 Helpful Report as spam

I've been downloading a lot of PDF viewers, and after downloading this one, I was instantly in love. It didn't crash when I pushed it like Sumatra. It has previews on the side, it's very fast, has great text selection, and it's always active, unlike Foxit's nastiness. The only issues I had were how it wanted to install in Application Data, which was easy to fix, and my only current issue: It opens the same, tiny size each time. There may be a setting somewhere, but I'd like it to open at 100% each time.

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Comment by maxon
about Evince · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful -1 Helpful Report as spam

Good program, but it didn't copy text from PDF to clipboard - what a disappointment =(

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SextaExtincion · Nov 2012

That only happens in certain pdf, usually made from old documents, because they are images scanned from the original source.


Comment by nitrofurano
about Evince · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful -1 Helpful Report as spam

since Evince can read comicbook files, Comical can be considered as alternative

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Great but have some issue

Comment by grea09
about Evince and Windows 7 · Aug 2013 · Helpful Not helpful -2 Helpful Report as spam

Probably the best PDF reader out there. Have even a windows version. The only flaw is the lack of support of underlined annotation in PDF.

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braniti · Oct 2013

Hi, it is good app. but it doesn't support annotation on Linux (I have stable ver 3.4 on LUbuntu 12.04) .
Also their official feature list https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/Features doesn't say it supports comments ?!
( i got there from https://projects.gnome.org/evince/ )

So i think someone should change description of this app on Alternativeto.net , since "adding and editing PDF annotations (comments)." is not in Linux yet.

grea09 · Apr 2017

On my Linux system Anotation works correctly.


Install Evince on Mac

Comment by aint
about Evince · Oct 2012 · Helpful Not helpful -2 Helpful Report as spam

How to install on mac?

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landroni · Oct 2012

I have no experience with Mac, but it should go as follows:

The basic idea behind MacPorts is that it allows a user running Mac OS X to easily download, compile and install various programs, Gentoo-style. Their docs are rather extensive so you should simply try to follow them attentively.