Evince
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Evince (/ˈɛvɪns/), also known as GNOME Document Viewer, is a free and open source document viewer supporting many document file formats including PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF, XPS and DVI. It is designed for the GNOME desktop environment.[3]
Other names | GNOME Document Viewer |
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Developer(s) | The Evince Team[1] |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | Primarily C, C++ |
Operating system | Linux and other Unix-like systems |
Type | Document viewer |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website | wiki |
The developers of Evince intended to replace the multiple GNOME document viewers with a single and simple application. The Evince motto sums up the project aim: "Simply a Document Viewer".[3]
GNOME releases have included Evince since GNOME 2.12 (September 2005). Evince's code is written mainly in C, with a small part (specifically, the interface with Poppler) written in C++. Many Linux distributions – including Ubuntu, Fedora Linux and Linux Mint – include Evince as the default document viewer.
Evince is free and open-source software subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
The Evince FAQ highlights the meaning of the word "Evince" as "to show or express something clearly".[4]