Evince Document Viewer

Evince is the default document viewer for PDF (Portable Document Format) and Post Script files but can also display other formats, such as images.

It is designed to make reading documents a simple and hassle-free experience, and has intuitive previewing, indexing and searching capabilities. You can even view documents in full-screen or presentation format, where each page is displayed like a slide in a slideshow.

Evince will start when you double-click a PDF file. If you want to start Evince without opening a file, press the Alt and F2 buttons on the keyboard simultaneously and type evince in the window that appears, or open a Terminal and type:

evince

Key Features

Zoom in and out of documents
Search
Presentation mode
It can be used from any application bo preview printing and select printing options (you must use "print to a file" in the application and later open the file with Evince to print it).

Screenshot

Installation

Part of the default Ubuntu installation

Hints and Tips

Other applications you may wish to look at

PDF Viewers

ePDFView
GPdf - GNOME-based 'fork' of XPDF
kpdf - KDE PDF reader
qpdfview - a tabbed document viewer with a Qt interface.
Xpdf - PDF viewer with additional tools available (see: xpdf-utils)

PDF Creation Tools

AbiWord - Word Processor that enables you to save documents as PDF files
LibreOffice - Office Suite that allows saving of files as PDFs
Scribus - Desktop Publishing