Questions tagged [evince]
Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats.
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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-...
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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) ...
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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....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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?
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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:...
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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 “/...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 (...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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:
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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-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: "/...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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?
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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 ...
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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 ...