Evince
| Evince | |
|---|---|
GNOME Evince 40 (released in March 2021) | |
| Other names | GNOME Document Viewer |
| Developer(s) | The Evince Team |
| Stable release | 48.0
/ 15 March 2025 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Primarily C, C++ |
| Operating system | Linux and other Unix-like systems |
| Successor | GNOME Papers |
| Type | Document viewer |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | wiki |
Evince (/ˈɛvɪns/), also known as GNOME Document Viewer, is a free and open-source document viewer supporting many document file formats including PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF, XPS and DVI. It is designed for the GNOME desktop environment.
The developers of Evince intended to replace the multiple GNOME document viewers with a single and simple application. The Evince motto sums up the project aim: "Simply a Document Viewer".
GNOME releases have included Evince since GNOME 2.12 (September 2005). Evince's code is written mainly in C, with a small part (specifically, the interface with Poppler) written in C++. Many Linux distributions that ship GNOME as their default desktop environment — including Ubuntu and Fedora Linux — include or have included Evince as the default document viewer.
Evince is free and open-source software subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
The Evince FAQ highlights the meaning of the word "Evince" as "to show or express something clearly".
In 2025, Evince will be replaced as the default document viewer in GNOME by a GTK 4 & Libadwaita hard fork of itself called Papers.