Evince
Evince (/ˈɛvɪns/), also known as GNOME Document Viewer, is a free and open source document viewer supporting many document file formats including PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF, XPS and DVI. It is designed for the GNOME desktop environment.
GNOME Evince 40 (released in March 2021) | |
| Other names | GNOME Document Viewer |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | The Evince Team |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Primarily C, C++ |
| Operating system | Linux and other Unix-like systems |
| Type | Document viewer |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | wiki |
The developers of Evince intended to replace the multiple GNOME document viewers with a single and simple application. The Evince motto sums up the project aim: "Simply a Document Viewer".
GNOME releases have included Evince since GNOME 2.12 (September 2005). Evince's code is written mainly in C, with a small part (specifically, the interface with Poppler) written in C++. Many Linux distributions – including Ubuntu, Fedora Linux and Linux Mint – include Evince as the default document viewer.
Evince is free and open-source software subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
The Evince FAQ highlights the meaning of the word "Evince" as "to show or express something clearly".