Simply a document viewer
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Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.
Evince is specifically designed to support the file following formats: PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex support with gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt). For a comprehensive list of formats supported.
Supported Document Formats
Evince can support many different multiple and single page document formats. Here is the current list of supported formats.
Built-in Support
PDF using the Poppler backend
Postscript using the libspectre backend
Multi-Page TIFF
DVI
DjVu using the DjVuLibre backend
Optional Support
Comics
Possible or Planned to Support
MS Powerpoint using libpreview. Currently very rough and alpha-quality.
What about the following? They are probably the most important formats “a document viewer” really should support, however this does not seem to be the plan according to this mail to desktop-devel
MS Word
OpenOffice.org OpenDocument and other formats
AbiWord
Animated image files would also be nice. I don’t think they are supported via
We at AppsForMyPC have tested and used Evince and it worked pretty smoothly 🙂 🙂
