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= Evince Document Viewer =

Evince is the default document viewer for PDF (Portable Document Format) and Post''''''Script files but can also display other formats, such as images.

It is designed to make reading documents a simple and hassle-free experience, and has intuitive previewing, indexing and searching capabilities. You can even view documents in full-screen or presentation format, where each page is displayed like a slide in a slideshow.

Evince will start when you double-click a PDF file. If you want to start Evince without opening a file, press the {{{Alt}}} and {{{F2}}} buttons on the keyboard simultaneously and type {{{evince}}} in the window that appears, or open a Terminal and type:

{{{
evince
}}}

= Key Features =

 * Zoom in and out of documents

 * Search

 * Presentation mode
 
 * It can be used from any application bo preview printing and select printing options (you must use "print to a file" in the application and later open the file with Evince to print it).

= Screenshot =

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= Installation =

 * Part of the default Ubuntu installation


= Hints and Tips =

= Other applications you may wish to look at =

== PDF Viewers ==

 * '''[[http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/|ePDFView]]'''

 * '''[[http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpdf/|GPdf]]''' - GNOME-based 'fork' of XPDF

 * '''[[http://kpdf.kde.org/|kpdf]]''' - KDE PDF reader

 * '''[[https://launchpad.net/qpdfview|qpdfview]]''' - a tabbed document viewer with a Qt interface.

 * '''[[http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/|Xpdf]]''' - PDF viewer with additional tools available (see: xpdf-utils)


== PDF Creation Tools ==

 * '''[[AbiWord]]''' - Word Processor that enables you to save documents as PDF files

 * '''[[LibreOffice]]''' - Office Suite that allows saving of files as PDFs

 * '''[[Scribus]]''' - Desktop Publishing


= Further Reading =

 * '''[[http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/|Evince]]'''

 * '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf|Wikipedia, 'Portable Document Format' (PDF)]]'''


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