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Evince is a replacement for Adobe PDF Viewer. Evidence PDF is primarily a PDF viewer and is also 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. Evidence is also available for Microsoft Windows.

Evince currently supports PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex with gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt), and many more.

Features

• Integrated search displays the number of results found and highlights the results on the page.
• Thumbnails of pages show quick reference for where you'd like to go in a document.
• When index information is included in a PDF Evince will display it in a tree format.
• Using the GNOME/GTK printing framework Evince can print any document it can open
• Evince can open PDF documents that have been encrypted
• Evince implements ATK interface, so it's accessible.

Review

Evince opens PDF files into a well laid out reader. The DRM flag is ignored making Evince far more useful than Sumatra PDF or Adobe reader. Loading speed was similar to Sumatra. One notable glitch occurs when text is selected, the text becomes distorted. This can somewhat hinder text selection. It has been reported that the Windows version will only open PDF files. In our test on Microsoft Windows we confirmed Evince was unable to open .epub an eBook format.

The fact that Evince PDF is not handicapped by DRM restrictions makes it far more useful as a PDF reader when compared to Sumatra PDF. For this reason Evince is our choice for a Windows PDF reader.