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graphics/evince, the Universal Document Viewer

Contributed by mbalmer on from the docs-need-viewers dept.

Evince, a universal document viewer, has just been imported to the ports tree:

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.

graphics/evince depends on the print/poppler port that has been imported to support this document viewer.

See http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/ for details on Evince.

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (65.243.149.146) on

    Thanks for porting this. It's a big improvement over gpdf.

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (213.130.141.19) on

      > Thanks for porting this. It's a big improvement over gpdf.
      >

      actually, gpdf had a nice feature that is missing in evince (at least the version I am using) - when you click on a hotlink which takes you to another page, gpdf had a 'back' button that went back link-wise, not to the page number just less than the one you were on.

      I have a 1100 page PDF that I use for reference and its rather annoying to go somewhere but have no way back, sigh.

  2. By Anonymous Coward (84.193.129.26) on

    Xpdf has been giving me too much trouble (coredumps) and has a horridly ugly user interface; Evince is quite new, but already looks better...
    Whoever ported this: thank you!

  3. By Bob Beck (129.128.11.43) beck@openbsd.org on

    You said the three words "Gnome", "Small", and "Simple" in the same sentence... Perhaps you should be designing starships

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    1. By Paul de Weerd (65.57.245.11) weerd@weirdnet.nl on http://www.weirdnet.nl/

      > You said the three words "Gnome", "Small", and "Simple" in the same
      > sentence... Perhaps you should be designing starships

      Although I agree with your sentiment, "Small" wasn't mentioned at all ;)

    2. By Matthias Kilian (84.134.36.71) on

      iid(4) would be really cool ;-)

  4. By Anonymous Coward (68.104.1.58) on

    does this port of evince support "djvu"? i was never able to get djvulibre to build for me (or rather build and not coredump).

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (65.243.149.146) on

      > does this port of evince support "djvu"? i was never able to get djvulibre to build for me (or rather build and not coredump).

      It's not built with --enable-djvu.

    2. By Aleksander Piotrowski (193.222.135.194) on http://nic.com.pl/~alek/

      > does this port of evince support "djvu"? i was never able to get djvulibre to build for me (or rather build and not coredump).

      Currently graphics/evince port doesn't support djvu but David Cathcart has created djvulibre port so djvu support will be available soon.

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