Evince
Evince (or GNOME Document Viewer) is a document viewer for multiple document formats: PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex support with gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt) and others. See Supported Document Formats for details.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
- Flathub
- GNOME
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Minimalistic
- Privacy focused
Features
- PDF annotation
- Invert colours
- Multiple languages
- Dark Mode
- Portable
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- No Tracking
- Handwriting recognition
- Windows Compatible
Tags
- ps-viewer
- DjVu
- tiff-viewer
- dvi
- tiff
- pdf-software
- postscript
Evince News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
swiss added Evince as alternative to ZeroUploadPDF
OrdinaryPerson added Evince as alternative to ComposePDF Pro
jdakfkj333 added Evince as alternative to Minimal eReader
Hexye added Evince as alternative to Hexye PDF Tools
trertre added Evince as alternative to Translator for PDF and EPUB
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What is Evince?
Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, cbr, cbz, etc.
The goal of Evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application. Evince is also capable of displaying, adding and editing PDF annotations (comments).
Remember zoom factor per document. Remember position per document.
Evince information
Developed by
The GNOME Project Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.3Alternatives
115 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Evince is my default PDF reader, but still lacks annotations as you can notice by the comments above. Still, it has great GTK+3.x theme integration, no bloat, and I can read both my big true-pdf files and .cbr comic books flawlessly. My upvote.
Windows installation is not easily available. It is a unix program which could be compiled for windows but go figure it yourself.
I still have an outdated (2.32.0) installer for windows saved on my webserver and download it whenever I am dealing with users at the grandma skill level. And while some might frown at it, I find things like its lack of support for javascript reassuring.
I use it under GNU/Linux as a simple PDF viewer, as it is lightweight and fast.
Actually I'd like to have it for Windows, too, but there is no installation file available, and I don't want to compile it myself.
Good keybindings and thankfully no javascript
Lightweight, fast, minimalist.
PRO: Evince supports different kinds of annotations now. All annotations start life as Highlights, and can then be customized through the "Annotation Properties" right-click menu.
CON: Will invert colors for low-strain reading, but does not have a true Night/Dark mode. If the color of your annotations matters to you as a reader, inverting might annoy you.
OVERALL: Great lightweight PDF/Comic book reader, especially if running Linux
COMPLAINTS: No 'Dark mode' without distorting annotation colors No 'Recent items' menu
Usable if you have to close and open common documents from the last place.
It will remember zoom factor per document. If will remember position per document.
evince --version GNOME Document Viewer 3.28.4
Opening 40 PDF fiels with average size of 2M within a second? No problem!