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✨ papers(1) — the GNOME document viewer ✨

okay bestie, listen up 💖 this is papers, from the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood man pages. she's a whole vibe and she reads documents. let's go 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

papers — GNOME document viewer

The Papers Document Viewer application for the GNOME desktop environment ✨

🎀 SYNTAX 🎀

like, the whole shape of it:

papers [--help] [--page-label=PAGE | --page-index=NUMBER | --named-dest=DEST] [--fullscreen] [--presentation] [filename(s)...]

note the | situation in the middle — those three page-choosing options are a pick one moment, not a collect them all moment. iykyk 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Papers is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single page document formats like PDF and DjVu. so basically she eats PDFs and DjVu files for breakfast and asks for seconds 🍓

for more general info about Papers, please visit the website at https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ — go say hi, she loves visitors 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

every single one, no gatekeeping, periodt:

  • -?, -h, --help — prints the command line options. it's giving "help me help you" 😭
  • -p, --page-label=PAGE — open the document on the page with the specified page label (or page number). so like, whatever the doc calls that page 🎀
  • -i, --page-index=NUMBER — open the document on the page with the specified page index. and listen, this is the exact page number, not a page label — do not get these two confused bestie, they are siblings not twins 💀
  • -n, --named-dest=DEST — open the document on the specified named destination. fancy ✨
  • -f, --fullscreen — run papers in fullscreen mode. maximum main character energy, no distractions, just you and the document 🌈
  • -s, --presentation — run papers in presentation mode. it's giving conference speaker, it's giving "as you can see on slide four" 🔥
  • filename(s)... — specifies the file to open when Papers starts. if you don't specify one, Papers will open a blank window (a little empty, a little mysterious, lowkey aesthetic 🦋). Multiple files can be loaded if they are separated by spaces. Papers 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". remote files? she said long distance relationship, and she's thriving 💖

😭 BUGS 😭

if you find a bug, please report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/papers/issues. don't suffer in silence bestie, the maintainers wanna know 🫶

fr fr, that's the whole page. go read something iconic 💅

shoutout to GNOME — this page is dated 2025-04-22 — and that's the papers(1) man page, signed, sealed, slayed ✨👑

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