Questions tagged [evince]
Evince is a document viewer for popular file formats such as PDF, XPS, Postscript, etc.
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evince + apparmor + local fonts = some font thing failed
I made my Debian GNU/Linux 12 “bookworm” aware of locally installed fonts in a non-root partition:
$ la -la /usr/local/share/fonts/
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 40 8. Feb 22:16 Folder1 -&...
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How to remove documents stored on Evince's "home page"?
Is there a way to remove certain documents from the front page of Evince? Or reset the entire thing back to zero and have no documents show up until I pull one up again?
This page is what I mean:
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evince seems to ignore $DISPLAY on Fedora?
I am running Fedora 33:
Linux mainoumi 5.14.18-100.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 12 17:38:44 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have a PC running Xming (X11 server) 7.7.0.85 and PuTTy .78 (both ...
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Between Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04, did Evince completely lose its settings menu?
This is my current version of evince
$ dpkg -l | grep evince
ii evince 42.3-0ubuntu2 amd64 Document (PostScript, ...
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Evince with dbus-launch cann't use WSL2 input methods
In the first post i asked how to enable reading history of Evince in WSL2, thanks to the answer which recommends:
dbus-launch evince <file.pdf>
But I found a problem, I cannot use WSL2 input ...
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Evince in WSL2 doesn't remember last visited page
I use the Evince pdf reader on WSL2, but it isn't remembering the last visited page. Every time I open a pdf file, it starts from the first page in a small window with the message:
chen@4-726:~/...
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Configure Evince PDF Viewer to open in Outline Mode
Are there any configuration options for the evince pdf viewer with which I could configure the Sidebar to be in "Outline" mode by default?
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evince doesn't adapt window size to screen size
I use my laptop with external screens whose resolution and position differ depending on whether I am at work or at home. Most Xorg applications cope with this quite well. Evince however does not, and ...
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Javascript links to embedded documents in PDF with linux
I have received a PDF file which embeds (hundreds of) documents, which I can access directly using the "Embedded files" function in okular (but I have not found an equivalent in evince):
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evince won't show PDF's not named like *.pdf
I can view a PDF file foo.pdf with evince.
But when I rename it to foo, evince instead complains,
Unable to open document "foo". Error opening file: Permission denied [Close]. (Of course the perms ...
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Evince is not refreshing
To clarify I think at one point when you edited a PDF say by compiling with pdflatex, the edits appear immediately in Evince reader and didn't require you to close the viewer and open it to see the ...
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Recovering evince session in Ubuntu 16.04
How can I recover documents which were open in Evince prior to a system crash in Ubuntu 16.04? Ideally, I would like to find a list of files which were open just before the crash. At the least, I ...
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Reboot history in Ubuntu 16.04
I am trying to recover after a crash of Ubuntu 16.04. The crashed session had been up for several months. Unfortunately, wtmp logs are updated every month. Where can I still find the reboot history, ...
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OSX Change default program to brew installed binary
I'm very disappointed that Apple was still not capable to fix Preview app and my PDFs are all still blurry (comparison between Evince and Preview) on FullHD monitors. So I installed Evince from brew ...
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Why does Evince add boundaries around the document?
Since upgrading my Xubuntu, Evince behaves weird: it doesn't use its full window for displaying the document, but wastes a lot of screen real-estate with empty margines around it as soon as the page ...
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