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Evince 3.28, the default in Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 LTS, introduces several good features, in particular a working fullscreen mode.

Is there a way to install this version - or newer - on 16.04?

The most up to date PPA I was able to find only had 3.24.1, and building from source has proven tricky.

Dun Peal
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You can try Snap'ed version of Evince:

$ snap search evince
Name    Version  Publisher    Notes  Summary
evince  3.30.2   ken-vandine  -      Document viewer for popular document formats

Install it with

snap install evince

and run with /snap/bin/evince.
If you like Snapped version, then remove deb-based with

sudo apt purge evince*
sudo apt autoremove

For file association open Nautilus, go to folder with PDF file, open context menu on it with right mouse button and select Open With and select Document Viewer from here.

N0rbert
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  • Thanks, this seems to work. I've removed the default evince. Is there a good way to make the snap evince the new default evince? So that, for example, using xdg-open some_file.pdf would launch /snap/bin/evince? – Dun Peal Feb 16 '19 at 18:45
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    You can use open with in nautilus. – N0rbert Feb 16 '19 at 19:25