Evince
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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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
- Flathub
- GNOME
Features
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- PredatorQ liked Evince
- jerrynew9000 added Evince as alternative to PDFtoBrainrot
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- muhammadfarag added Evince as alternative to EaseUS PDF Editor
- Patwa added Evince as alternative to FeatherPDF Editor
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I still have an outdated (2.32.0) installer for windows saved on my webserver and download it whenever I am dealing with users at the grandma skill level.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.
Reply written Apr 8, 2020
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!