Evince: Speed and Functionality Combined
In the heterogeneous computing world of today, documents are encapsulated in a variety of formats, from the mundane PDF to the high-resolution tiffs needed in typography. To be able to view all of them you could use four or five different applications, or you could just employ Evince. GNOME users are probably well familiarized with this document viewer. Every time you click a PDF you downloaded from the web, it will start up and, in an instant, render the document for you to view.
Among the document file formats that Evince supports out of the box you will find PDF, by using the Poppler library, Postscript (.ps) files, TIFF images, TeX output in the form of DVIs and even DjVu compressed files. Throw in a few more libraries, and you will be able to open OpenOffice.org Impress documents, comics in the CBR, CBZ and CB7 compressed formats and even images, although we can't recommend it as a primary image viewer and it might be unstable. In the future Powerpoint rendering may be added, and even support for some other formats.
So, let's take a look at the features that are packed into Evince:
• Integrated search displays the number of results found and highlights the results on the page.
• Thumbnails of pages show quick reference for where you'd like to go in a document.
• When index information is included in a PDF it will be displayed it in a tree format.
• By using the GNOME/GTK printing framework, it can print any document.
• It can open PDF documents that have been encrypted.
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