Questions tagged [evince]

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats.

124 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
13 votes
4 answers
4k views

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 ...
P_M's user avatar
  • 141
10 votes
1 answer
2k views

Evince Document Viewer(42.0) does not remember last page in 22.04

Just switched from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and realized that Document Viewer no longer open on the last viewed page and doesn't remember the side pane preference even after using the "Save Current ...
ManOnTheMoon's user avatar
  • 1,142
8 votes
3 answers
3k views

Why won't .pdf files containing transparent elements print correctly?

I have recently encountered a problem printing .pdf files containing transparent elements. I first noticed it when printing a document created with LaTeX that included embedded .png images with alpha ...
Nicholas's user avatar
  • 181
6 votes
0 answers
242 views

Highlighting feature in evince

I have been using evince for quite some time. Except I need to highlight documents continuously. I have to click the annotate icon every time. Is there any steps to make it stay in the highlighter ...
aadhi00's user avatar
  • 81
5 votes
0 answers
2k views

Video in evince in presentation mode

I have created a presentation with the LaTeX Beamer class that contains a video. If I open the pdf file (with evince) not in presentation mode everything is fine. I can start the video with a simple ...
Thorsten's user avatar
5 votes
0 answers
1k views

Gtk-CRTICAL […] errors when starting 'nautilus' or 'evince' from the Terminal

when I am starting evince or nautilus from shell I am receiving those error-messages. Does anyone know how to fix them? I tried to reinstall both programs but the error continues. test@test-...
lrsp's user avatar
  • 207
5 votes
0 answers
177 views

Change color of Evince Document Viewer search results?

Is it possible to change the colors that Evince Document Viewer uses to highlight search results? Please take a look at the screenshot example below. Personally, I find the the selected (bottom) ...
orschiro's user avatar
  • 13.3k
5 votes
0 answers
1k views

Evince can open hyperlinks in Firefox, so why not in Chrome?

Before posting this question I investigated this and found it already implemented in my 14.04. Also investigated this which references the above linked question. Handlers for both google-chrome....
Sequim's user avatar
  • 51
4 votes
0 answers
810 views

Automatic smooth scrolling Evince

I was wondering if there is a way to enable automatic smooth scrolling with evince pdf reader in ubuntu 18.04. I know about the ctrl+arrows, but i usually scroll the vim way with k and j keys. I can't ...
elkevn's user avatar
  • 91
4 votes
0 answers
967 views

document viewer presentation mode show small frame when display scale is 200%

When I try to open a document in presentation mode in document viewer in Ubuntu 20.04 while the display scale is set to 200%, the presentation is shown in a small frame in the middle of the screen. If ...
silentnights's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
251 views

How to change the default saving behaviour of Evince Document Viewer following highlight?

If I highlight a sentence using Evince Document Viewer, it gets highlighted. But after highlighting when I click Ctrl + S (that is save), it is giving pop up for saving each-time. Then eventually I ...
Praveen Kumar-M's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
644 views

Evince: Unable to open external link: Failed to execute child process "env" (Permission denied)

The title is the error I'm getting trying to open an external link in Evince. My default browser is the snap version of Opera 54.0.2952.71 on Ubuntu 18.04.1. I can open the external links if Firefox ...
Bo Johnson's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
2k views

How to remove all anotation in evince?

I spent so much time in reading PDF, so I need an anotation feature. I like how Okular save the anotation in xml file, so I can easily share my clean PDF, and export anotation when I need. now I use ...
azzamsa's user avatar
  • 41
4 votes
0 answers
94 views

View more than 2 pdf pages horizontally

in evince in the menu view > dual makes two pages appear side-by-side. Is there a way to make more pages appear horizontally? Either in evince or other.
842Mono's user avatar
  • 9,770
4 votes
0 answers
2k views

Making okular notes and comments visible to other pdf readers

Is there a way to make okular comment and reviews for a pdf visible to Adobe Reader and evince?
Minimus Heximus's user avatar
3 votes
0 answers
2k views

Evince complains about missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges, how can I add those privileges

On 22.04, when using evince on the command line to add text annotations to a PDF and then save it, evince complains The peer-to-peer connection failed: Error while getting peer-to-peer dbus connection:...
Harald's user avatar
  • 1,170
3 votes
0 answers
315 views

How can I grant permission to snap application (evince) (ubuntu 18.4) to open files outside home?

I have installed evince through snap in ubuntu 18.04 and only opens files inside home folder. ** (evince:6214): WARNING **: 00:03:47.818: set_filenames: Error when getting information for file “/...
Pau Marin's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
534 views

evince Document Viewer displays at double the actual size

When I look at a PDF of an A4 paper (or US Letter-sized paper), and set the zoom scale to 100%, the paper on the screen looks twice the actual width (42 cm instead of 21 cm). This happens with all PDF ...
k314159's user avatar
  • 429
3 votes
3 answers
816 views

Evince reader: How to make side panels dark in night mode?

I love night mode in evince, but the reading always gets strained since there are white bars while reading the book. Is there any way to darnen them black? All black screen will be a pleasure for ...
Abhay Dandekar's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
664 views

Evince color problem

I have a problem with color rendering in Evince (3.18.2) in Ubuntu 16.04: the colors are darker than normal since a few days. Below a picture that shows a pdf file rendering in Okular on the left (...
Lgen's user avatar
  • 131
3 votes
0 answers
1k views

Change the font used for Times-Roman (fontconfig)

(I'm having a hard time figuring this one out and my google-fu is not helping.) For a long time, my evince has used a strange Times-Roman font (with mis-aligned glyphs and weird kerning). It should ...
jdferreira's user avatar
3 votes
0 answers
2k views

View a secured pdf file on Ubuntu?

I have a pdf document (an electronic transcript from school) which, as the website from which the pdf file was downloaded says, "are certified PDFs that contain a digital signature and other security ...
Tim's user avatar
  • 25.1k
3 votes
0 answers
221 views

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 ...
user147676's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
551 views

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?
Shantanu Dutta's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
585 views

Page borders gone in evince after 14.04 upgrade

After upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04, the thin black borders that appear around pages in evince have disappeared. Now, when I'm reading a pdf file in evince, the pages appear white against a background ...
paul's user avatar
  • 71
2 votes
0 answers
130 views

Document Viewer not using printer settings

I have two HP laserjet P2035 printers on my system running Ubuntu 22.04. Each printer has two different kinds of paper loaded in different paper trays. Instead of manually selecting which printer and ...
Aelanna's user avatar
  • 41
2 votes
0 answers
229 views

Ubuntu 22.04 evince "Save Current Settings as Default" not working

I just installed Ubuntu 22.04 and already tried the option "Save Current Settings as Default" in Evince. This setting seems to work only for the already opened pdf files, not for the new ...
user2342558's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
851 views

How to modify Firefox's AppArmor profile to allow evince to open links

When I try to open a link from a PDF using Evince I get an error message in the terminal. env: ‘/snap/bin/firefox’: Permission denied It used to work when Firefox wasn't a snap package. I think the ...
Mohamed Wafy's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
297 views

On 22.04, Nautilus sftp remote connection 'evince' gives 'unable to open document ... operation not supported'

I am running 22.04 and when I connect to a remote server via sftp I started getting the error below. EDIT: I just realized that this only occurs for PDF files, and PNG files open in a preview as ...
Joff's user avatar
  • 504
2 votes
0 answers
273 views

I wonder if evince document viewer have configuration file like zathura have zathurarc?

I use zathura as document viewer but they not provide highlight text option , or I not found any plugin for that. So I switched to evince but how I configure keybindings in evince actually I saw this ...
Visrut's user avatar
  • 121
2 votes
1 answer
289 views

How to quickly anonymize all annotations in evince?

In Evince, I know that I can do right-click on the annotation -> Annotation Properties... and clear the author in the properties window. However, doing this for each annotation is overkill. Is there ...
andertavares's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
44 views

since Ubuntu 19.10 evince exits on mouse click or mark area events

since Ubuntu 19.10, evince exits on mouse click or mark area events and hence it is impossible to copy text, even from my own PDF files, generated by PDF-LaTeX LATER ADDITION> 1> my install is an ...
user208066's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
163 views

Evince fails to open

Since re-installing 18.04, evince document reader is failing to open. The files can be opened with other readers. I have removed and reinstalled evince. The symptoms are:Whether I double click a pdf ...
Pansmanser's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
205 views

Document Viewer (Evince) makes highlighted (selected) text non-graphically corrupted

In Ubuntu Document Viewer (Evince), when text is highlighted (selected) it becomes non-graphically corrupted. How can I make all the text in particular PDF in any PDF reader looks like that all the ...
user268587's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
242 views

Evince and fc-match think Windows 8.1 courbd.ttf is worse match than DejaVu Sans Book font

I have invoice PDF where the shop's software uses Courier New and Courier New Bold fonts. However, both Evince and fc-match decide (assuming through Fontconfig) that my Windows 8.1 original Courier ...
wilx's user avatar
  • 656
2 votes
1 answer
118 views

How can I open an editable pdf?

I am not able to open this file with Evince or Okular, but I can open this file with Reader on Windows. Here's is a picture:
Teo7's user avatar
  • 79
2 votes
0 answers
244 views

Viewing PDF annotations in Evince

I'm trying to get around a bug in the Evince GUI. Annotations in a PDF are shown with (1) a highlight to the text color, and (2) a small comment-box icon. Clicking the comment-box icon opens a sticky-...
Jamie's user avatar
  • 319
2 votes
0 answers
376 views

Ubuntu 18.04 Evince and Calibre reader must be restarted every page to load font

For PDF files about 15 MB or more, the fonts are garbled every time I go to a new page. If I close the file and reopen it, the font on the current page is fine, but other pages are garbled. It ...
knt5784's user avatar
  • 51
2 votes
0 answers
353 views

Evince hide all comments

I am trying to view a PDF created by AutoCAD LT; for some reason it shows with a "comment box" around all of the text elements. I have a PDF with hundreds of little boxes that cannot be moved or ...
Adam's user avatar
  • 341
2 votes
0 answers
503 views

Evince crashes in Ubuntu 18.04 (fontconfig error)

Evince crashes every time i try to launch it on a recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 server: Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf", line 272: mismatched tag Fontconfig error: "/...
Vasili Korol's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
130 views

letters with diacritic marks disappearing in Evince Document Viewer

Letters with diacritic marks disappear in forms viewed with Evince Document viewer 3.18.2: However, there is no problem typing letters with diacritic marks into the form: I have the relevant Latvian ...
Viesturs's user avatar
  • 652
2 votes
0 answers
826 views

Make evince save the session and reopen documents on system restart

I am using evince, but it might be any other pdf/document reader for that matter. I tried this guide, but it did not work (for evince). I want to make Ubuntu reopen all the documents, which I had ...
Markus Gratis's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
179 views

Filled pdf forms are (sometimes) not properly displayed

I have produced a fillable pdf form in LaTeX. Now, I am receiving filled out versions of that form, but a few of the submissions are not displayed in a readable way: Letters are scrambled or only a ...
user3825755's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
219 views

Ubuntu 16.10: segfault on evince-thumbnail

My Configuration: A Lenovo T450s Ubuntu 16.10 64bit GNOME Shell 3.20.4 My Problem: Sometimes suddenly and error pops up with 'Cancel' and 'Report problem` buttons. When I click on report problem ...
alisabzevari's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
412 views

Exporting evince annotations

Is there a way to export annotations made to a PDF using evince? See, I have a fairly lengthy documents I commented on but I now need to share it with someone else. Although the other person also ...
Juan Antonio's user avatar
  • 1,572
2 votes
0 answers
517 views

Missing symbols in Evince

I'm having a problem where some symbols (usually µ) aren't being displayed in Evince, but come through fine in Ghostview. Screenshot comparison The PDFs are usually datasheets, so "You should have ...
Rgaddi's user avatar
  • 121
2 votes
0 answers
66 views

Weblink redirection to site from pdf

While opening a PDF in evince and click any web link on that PDF it is not redirecting to the site on UBUNTU 12.04. My default browser is google chrome. I have updated it recently. In terminal a error ...
sysadmincrispy's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
143 views

How to stop Evince from going to the end of the document on pressing shift?

On pressing shift the pdf viewer Evince always jumps to the end of the document. This is especially annoying, when I have to manage several tabs. How can I disable this shortcut?
Jarno's user avatar
  • 286
2 votes
0 answers
134 views

How do I add zsh completion for evince with djvu files?

I am using zsh (5.0.2). The auto-completion for evince only shows files of some predefined extensions, amongst which pdf and ps but not djvu. How to make zsh also autocomplete with djvu files on ...
Bruno's user avatar
  • 233
2 votes
0 answers
368 views

pdf reader that shows search results with correct page number

If I search for a word in evince I get a list of search results on the left, with page numbers. These page numbers though are absolute page numbers of the pdf, not taking into account different page ...
muk.li's user avatar
  • 219