evince(1)

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💖 evince(1) — like, the manual page, bestie 💖

General Commands Manual energy, okurrr. This is the evince page from the GNOME docs, and yes I'm about to make a document viewer sound like the most iconic thing you've ever opened. Because honestly? It kind of is. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

evince — document viewer 📄

The Evince document viewer application for the GNOME desktop environment. That's it, that's the whole vibe. She looks at documents. She slays. 👑

🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

Okay so this is literally how you call her:

evince [--help] [--page-label=PAGE | --page-index=NUMBER | --named-dest=DEST] [--fullscreen] [--presentation] [--preview] [--find=STRING] [filename(s)... OR uri(s)...]

Notice how --page-label, --page-index and --named-dest are separated by those little | pipes? Yeah bestie, that's an exclusive situation. Pick one. Not all three. She's not doing that. 🙅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

evince

Evince is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single page document formats like PDF and Postscript. So like, PDFs? Postscript? Multiple pages, single page, she's got range. 💅

For more general information about Evince please visit our website at https://apps.gnome.org/Evince/ — go look, it's giving official. 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

Every single flag, no skips, no cap:

  • -?, -h, --help — Prints the command line options. She's telling you about herself. Main character behavior, honestly. 👑
  • -p, --page-label=PAGE — Open the document on the page with the specified page label (or page number). Labels, numbers, she's flexible. ✨
  • -i, --page-index=NUMBER — Open the document on the page with the specified page index. And heads up: this is the exact page number, not a page label. They are NOT the same thing, bestie, don't come for me. 😭
  • -n, --named-dest=DEST — Open the document on the specified named destination. Fancy. Named. Destinations. 🎀
  • -f, --fullscreen — Run evince in fullscreen mode. Immersive. Cinematic. The whole screen is hers now. 🔥
  • -s, --presentation — Run evince in presentation mode. She's presenting. Applause. 👏
  • -l, --find=string — You can pass a word or phrase here. If it exists, evince will display the document and the first match. Search bar but make it a flag. 🍓
  • filename(s)... OR uri(s)... — Specifies the file to open when Evince starts. If this is not specified, Evince will open with the Recent Files view. Multiple files can be loaded if they are separated by spaces. Evince also supports handling of remote files. For example, you can pass the location on the web or load a file from a FTP server, like "ftp://adobe.com/sample.pdf". File uri's are also allowed eg. "file:///home/user/Documents/sample.pdf"

We partially support the Adobe PDF open parameters, specifically the "page" and "nameddest" parameters, which are similar to our --named-dest and --page-label options respectively. Some examples below:

Tip: you can obtain the list of all named destinations in a pdf file with the "pdfinfo -dests" command of poppler-utils package. 👀

Evince also treats a numeric solely parameter as the "page" number, eg:

These options are primarily intended for use with the GTK+ print preview function. For more information about these options see https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/property.Settings.gtk-print-preview-command.html

  • -w, --preview — Run evince as a previewer. She's just peeking. 🙈
  • --unlink-temp-file — If evince is run in preview mode, this will unlink the temporary file created by GTK+. Bye bye temp file, you will not be missed. 💀
  • --print-settings %s %f — This sends the full path of the PDF file, f, and the settings of the print dialog, s, to evince. Two little placeholders doing the most. ⭐

🐛 BUGS 🐛

If you find a bug, please report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues. Found a glitch? Tell the devs, don't suffer in silence, bestie. 🫶

Evince maintainers · 19 Jun 2011 · evince(1)

That's the whole page, babes — maintained by the Evince maintainers, dated 19 Jun 2011, and filed under evince(1). Go read a PDF, you deserve it. 💜🦋✨

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