Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats.
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Where are evince bookmarks stored?
Evince has the option to add bookmarks. My question is simple?
Where is the information about bookmarks stored?
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Update Evince Oneiric
I would like to update Evince to the newest version (3.6.1) in Oneiric.
When I do apt-cache show evince i get package with this version: 3.2.1-0ubuntu2.3
So I downloaded the newest version with ...
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View *.eps files
Since Evince doesn't work with *.eps on 13.04 (see bellow), is there any other app to quickly open (not edit) a *.eps file?
petr@sova:~$ evince histogram_default.eps
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How to show all searched results in pdf in a glance?
In evince, when searching some text in a pdf file, the result will be displayed one by one by hitting "next" or "previous" button.
I wonder if it is possible to glance at once all found results with ...
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How can I load gui applications under an su session?
When I log into gnome in Ubuntu 12.04, I can type the following on the command line to open a pdf:
evince mypdf.pdf
However, the following does not work.
su
evince mypdf.pdf
That gives the ...
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Gedit, Evince has print disabled
Print menu command is disabled in evince and gedit. Print functionality works fine in other applications like Chrome, GIMP, Firefox. Ubuntu printer setup correctly recognizes my printer and scanner ...
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How can I make PDFs appear life-size when displayed at 100%?
When I open a letter size PDF and then zoom to 100%, the page physically displayed on my monitor is smaller than a real letter size sheet of paper.
How can I make "100%" on the computer screen ...
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Selecting a [long] part of text in evince
I want to select a long part of text,say from starting of page 200 to end of page 400 in evice. How can I do this most quickly?
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Why don't hyperlinks open in evince document viewer?
I am using Evince document viewer as default in ubuntu 12.04.
How do I get a hyperlink to open when clicking on it?
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How to display buttons in Evince?
Xubunte 12.10
XFCE with Greybird theme and the default icon set.
Hello,
I like Evince so far, I can read stuff just fine.
However, instead of buttons for navigating, I see buttons with words for ...
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Unable to print PDF correctly
When I try to print a PDF, it prints, but the first page has weird symbols replacing some of the letters (notice that the symbols look similar to the letters that should be there):
The second page ...
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How to delete an annotation in Evince?
I have discovered with great surprise that Evince 2.32.0 allows for annotations on a PDF.
To my dismay however, I have found no means to delete annotations (no button, no menu, no right-click-menu, ...
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Strange GTK3 issue with Audacious and Evince (Document Viewer)
I find that, in some GTK3 apps such as Audacious and Evince (Document Viewer), parts of the UI are pure black, which looks ugly and out-of-place. It is not intentional, as the screenshots on both ...
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How to print a PostScript file in Evince using a brochure layout?
I have an PostScript output from a man page produced by man -t ssh > man_ssh.ps. It opens for viewing in Evince Document Viewer. I want to print it on a printer that supports double-sided printing. ...
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missfont.log in home directory?
On a clean install I get a file called missfont.log in my home directory as well as in other directories in which I open pdfs. I don't want it there.
How can I avoid this log to be created? One of ...
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How to improve evince font smoothing
I'm wondering if it is possible to change evince font rendering and make it render fonts like adobe acrobat reader.
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Anyone Getting Bad Printouts from 12.10?
For several years I have been downloading credit card statements as pdf files. I then print them, before inputting the info to gnucash. I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 yesterday. Now if I try to print ...
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Evince opening pdf via terminal but not via file manager
Fresh install of lubuntu 12.10. Tried opening PDF files with Document Viewer (evince) by double clicking but once the application opens I am presented with a red bar saying "No such file or ...
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Lines have tops of characters cut off in evince [closed]
My bank statements are pdf files but are unreadable in 12.10 with evince. They are fine with adobe reader. They are fine in evince on Fedora so it has to be something with evince and ubuntu.
Any ...
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Does Evince support javascript in pdf files?
In some pdf file readers for MS Windows such as those from Adobe or Foxit, it is possible to turn off the ability to implement javascript in a pdf file. Is that possible with Evince (Document Viewer) ...
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PDFs don't open
PDFs have curiously stopped working for me. I click on them, and nothing happens. PS still works, and opening them in Firefox pdf.js still works too.
When I try to open them with evince through the ...
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Evince won't save files, says “Permission denied”
If I go into evince's save dialog, go to /home/username/Documents, in my home directory, and try to create a new directory (e.g. foo), the operation fails. Evince says:
Could not create directory ...
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evince doesn't open pdf file and gives message: “Bad substitution”
When trying to open a pdf file in nautilus and selecting "Open with Document Viewer" (aka evince") nothing happens. From the terminal "$ evince file.pdf" gives the message "Bad substitution". Other ...
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How can I validate a pdf's digital signature with evince?
A while ago I received a PDF file that was digitally signed.
The Document Viewer (Evince) shows me that the digital signature was not validated.
How do I add the file's digital signature to evince ...
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Serious bug in poppler which effects evince printing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I report a bug?
There is a rather serious bug in poppler which passes bad characters to Cairo when printing pdfs through evince. The problem pdfs I have come ...
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Evince colors inverted
My copy of Evince has the menu and sidebar colors inverted (see screenshot below). Note that I have not selected the Inverted Colors option. I have an NVIDIA GPU and I have the nvidia-current ...
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Make Evolution open PDF instead of the tmp directory
Running Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome 3.2.
Scenario:
When I double click a PDF attachment in evolution, it opens up the ~/.cache/evolution/tmp/ directory in Nautilus instead of opening the PDF.
If I ...
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How to set default zoom in evince?
I really love how evince works but this little thing making me annoy so much.When i select a title or a subtitle from the content menu it shifts the zoom and I'am going crazy.On windows it was just ...
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Permanent custom keyboard shortcuts for Evince (Document Viewer)
I am using the Ubuntu document viever Evince. Lately, I found out how to add custom keyboard shortcuts for the program. I was searching for a way to add a shortcut e.g. for View / Best fit (also ...
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How to change pdf background color in evince?
White background color is harm to eyes. How to change pdf background color in evince?
Now I use evince 3.4.0 in ubuntu 12.04 x64.
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Evince shows font in too big style when opening pdf from Internet
When choose some PDF document to be opened by Evince from a WWW-site, it shows the document with font size 300%. How can I change it to show the document by font size 100 %? The same issue occurs both ...
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How do I change the color and font of PDF comments in Evince?
Evince now handles comments written in other pdf markup software (e.g. Adobe), which is very nice. Unfortunately, it chooses a yellow font on a white background that is almost impossible to read ...
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SyncTeX with gedit and Evince
In Oneiric gedit includes support for SyncTeX and Evince has supported it since 2.32 (Oneiric includes Evince 3.2.0). How do I use SyncTeX with gedit and Evince? I have compiled with the -synctex=1 ...
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Is Evince going to support Text highlighting in PDF's [closed]
I remember reading somewhere that since goal of evince is to act as a document viewer, it won't support highlighting. Am I right ?
are evince dev's going to support highlighting in future. I dont ...
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How do I get Chromium to show PDFs using Evince?
Is there any way to get Chromium to use a mozpluggerrc/evince combination to show PDFs embedded into its own window? Right now, Chromium is just downloading PDFs. I can open them in an external evince ...
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How can I open pdfs in firefox using evince (not acrobat)?
I already installed mozplugger
sudo apt-get install mozplugger
Then I changed the pdf part of /etc/mozpluggerrc into the following:
application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
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Prevent SyncTeX from opening new instance Evince?
I'm using the SyncTeX plugin in gedit and it seems that ctrl-clicking in gedit (forward-searching) opens up a new instance of Evince even if there was already an instance open.
Is there a way to ...
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Why do some PDFs have such ugly fonts in Document Viewer?
Why are the fonts in Document Viewer so ugly and non-antialiased?
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Is there a way to 'sleep' browser windows with tabs I'm not currently reading? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an equivalent of “stay” for Ubuntu?
I typically have a lot of PDF's open while I'm computing. Many of them are "I'll read this later" rather than "I ...
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How to embed evince in firefox 4?
I installed mozplugger and created the file mozpluggerrc with the following content according to this post but when I open a .pdf it opens in a separate evince window.
is there a way I can truly ...
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How do I reset the “Document Viewer” (Evince) toolbar?
I have edited my toolbar but I don't know how to reset it.
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Printing PDF-files via network extremely slow
I encounter grave problems trying to print PDF-files, no matter whether I use Evince, Okular or any other linux program. The Documents are printed extremely slowly or even completely fail to print at ...
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Issue with PDF titles in Evince on Ubuntu 10.04
Evince displays only the Title name if it set on a document. I am facing difficulty since most of the Titles for documents are not appropriate. The files are having approprate names though.
Evince ...
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View PDF with “fit to page size” by default
Whenever I open a PDF file in Ubuntu, the document viewer shows that file zoomed so that the page width fits to the screen width (and the lower part of the document is not visible). Due to the large ...
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System-wide smoothing is off, but evince smooths anyway
I managed to turn of smoothing system-wide in ubuntu (see screenshot) including font in applications.
However, evince (and other pdf readers) does not respect smoothing turned off and smooths text ...
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Evince default dual view
I like to use dual view for some documents in evince. Recently, evince caught up up to this, and now it opens every single document in dual view. On the flip side, I prefer to use single view for most ...
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Evince ignores page margins when printing
I'd like to print a PDF with custom page margin settings.
So I opened the PDF with Evince (standard document viewer) and added a new page size in the print dialog:
It has a bigger margin on the ...
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Does Evince (Document Viewer) have a plug-in system?
Does it have API? If not, whats the simplest PDF viewer that does?
What I do want to create: Maybe annotations (which could be shared via an external file) or creating hyper links to Wikipedia. That ...
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Evince does not work properly [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and when I open a pdf or ps file and try to make it bigger by going to the top right corner using the arrow, the system freezes.
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Is there a way to enable smooth scrolling for PDFs?
There is one small issue with Ubuntu that is driving me crazy. Smooth scrolling when reading documents PDF's isn't smooth. I was using evince to read PDF's bigger books 200+ pages. The slightest ...
