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Evince is a document viewer, part of the GNOME desktop environment and primarily used for PDF and PostScript viewing.

Evince is a document viewer that ships with the GNOME Desktop environment. Apart from being the DE's de facto PDF viewer, Evince supports the following common formats:

  • PDF
  • Postscript
  • djvu
  • tiff
  • dvi
  • XPS
  • SyncTex support with gedit
  • comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt)
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Is there a pdf viewer capable of opening multiple documents in the same window?

I would like to open all chapters of my PDF ebooks in the same window but neither evince nor okular seems to be capable of doing that (at least not out-of-the-box). Is there a way to work this out?
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Evince does not show printers

I have a problem with evince PDF-document viewer. I have a printer that is well configured with cups, and I can print PDFs from other PDF viewers such as Okular, but not with Evince. There are simply no printer listed when I want to print with…
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Printing two pages per sheet from the command line

Say I start off from a PDF document, say of 12 pages, viewed with evince. To produce another PDF of 6 sheets, with a page setup of two pages per side, I normally use the "Print to File" device listed in the ^P dialogue window. This works out…
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Why is my PostScript print quality so poor?

My wife and I downloaded PDF museum passes and printed them on the same PostScript laser printer. To my surprise, hers looked much better! On the left is the printout from her Mac, and on the right the one sent from my Debian Linux machine. I am…
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Evince keyboard shortcut to highlight text

Is there a keyboard shortcut to highlight text in Evince? To place a note? Or a way to setup a custom keyboard shortcut?
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Evince fails to start because it cannot read .Xauthority

I'm logged in remotely over SSH with X forwarding to a machine running Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid). Most X11 applications (e.g. xterm, gnome-terminal) work fine. But Evince does not start. It seems unable to read ~/.Xauthority, even though the file exists,…
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Any way to control evince settings from the commandline?

Is there any way to change / set evince settings either in a config file or from the command line when starting ? I'm using inotifywait to display a PDF when it is copied to a specific file, and I want to be able to set zoom (fit to page),…
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How can I convert a scanned PDF with OCRed text to one without OCRed text?

I have a scanned PDF file, with low-quality OCRed text. I would like to have a PDF file without the OCRed text. How can I convert a scanned PDF with OCRed text to without OCRed text? I am thinking about what ways can recover the original scanned PDF…
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Is there a way to know/tell which fonts are used in a pdf file?

I downloaded a pdf file from here . I am/was using evince and saw that more than half of the pages are missing characters/font information or something. I am getting rectangles. Is there a way to - a. Find a way which fonts are being used in that…
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How to fix diacritics in PDF forms in Evince?

I happen to live in Czech Republic and we have such letters like ě, š, č, ť, etc in the alphabet and use them everywhere, including addresses. Today I was filling a PDF form in Evince and noticed that some of these letters either disappear or make…
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How can I change keyboard shortcuts for Evince (and other GNOME programs)?

Is there a way to customize keyboard shortcuts for Evince, the GNOME document viewer?
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How to make mupdf automatically refresh a document

Upon opening a pdf in evince and then making a change to that document (recompiling it in LaTeX), evince will automatically refresh to the latest version of the document. mupdf however does not do this: it keeps showing the version I originally…
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Evince / document viwer keeps changing my print settings

using Debian testing, Xfce v4.12 here. My preferred PDF viewer, evince (or "document viewer" under Ubuntu? Don't know) keeps changing my print settings, even when I tell it not to: Open PDF, set number of pages per sheet to 2,…
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evince opens pdf in "presentation mode"

when opening a particular pdf file, evince decides to open it in "presentation mode". I see in the man page that evince has -s option to open in presentation mode, but I did not invoke it. I am simply opening all pdfs as evince file.pdf Somehow…
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User data in evince and cups

Some days ago my evince stopped printing. After reinstalling it and trying different versions without success I figured out that it works from other user accounts on the same box. So which files stores evince and cups per user basis such that I can…
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