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Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats.

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.

Evince is specifically designed to support the file following formats:

PDF
Postscript
djvu
tiff
dvi
XPS
SyncTex support with gedit
comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt)
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How to change pdf background color in evince?

White background color is harm to eyes. How to change pdf background color in evince? Now I use evince 3.4.0 in ubuntu 12.04 x64.
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How to delete an annotation in Evince?

I have discovered with great surprise that Evince 2.32.0 allows for annotations on a PDF. To my dismay however, I have found no means to delete annotations (no button, no menu, no right-click-menu, nada). How can I delete an annotation then?
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Highlighting pdf using evince?

I use Evince a lot and I have also tried other alternatives. I just love the smoothness of Evince. Recently, I have the need to highlight text in pdf files. Is it possible to do that in Evince?
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Disable Evince thumbnails preview sidebar (Side Pane)

Evince places left sidebar widget which placeholder for index and thumbnails (they call it Side Pane). It can be easy closed by clicking on X GUI button or F9 keyboard button and this changes saved across document opening. Index is useful feature,…
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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 right side in this case. But on the printed paper or…
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how to disable evince-thumbnailer

I would like to disable evince-thumbnailer because capacity of log file keeps increasing. Let me know how to disable evince-thumbnailer.
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How to improve evince font smoothing?

I'm wondering if it is possible to change evince font rendering and make it render fonts like Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Where are the case sensitive and whole words search options in Evince document viewer?

In Evince document viewer I can search for text in a document using the find option (Ctrl+F). However, I can't find where to activate the Case Sensitive and Whole Words Only search options.
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What Happened to `Recent Files' Feature in Document Viewer (Evince)?

Most of the currently available applications provide a way to open the recently accessed files from it. In the previous versions of Document Viewer, I could see a list of recently opened files. However, in recent versions of Document Viewer, I find…
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Evince performance (Hint: slow)

Is it normal that Evince is really slow with pdf documents with pictures and larger than 10 Mb? Instead of loading the whole document and then being able to scroll fast I always get slow page-preview-scrolling and slow document scrolling. Even pages…
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can I get the document viewer Evince in Windows

I want to get document viewer of Ubuntu working in Windows 7, is there any way to do it? If yes then please guide me through that.
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Evince default dual view

I like to use dual view for some documents in evince. Recently, evince caught up up to this, and now it opens every single document in dual view. On the flip side, I prefer to use single view for most documents so this is pretty annoying. Is there a…
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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 mode?
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How do I remove a bookmark in Evince Document Viewer?

I need to remove an old bookmark and replace it with a new one.
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Why don't hyperlinks open in evince document viewer?

I am using Evince document viewer as default in ubuntu 12.04. How do I get a hyperlink to open when clicking on it?
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