Geek Software of the Week: Evince!

This is a very cool Open Source document viewer! There is a Windows version and a Linux version. It is very handy, and super-functional… you need this handy utility! Check it out!

Evince – Simply a Document Viewer

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.

Supported Document Formats
Evince is specifically designed to support the file following formats:

PDF
Postscript
djvu
tiff
dvi
XPS
SyncTex support with gedit
comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt)
Here is the full list of supported document formats

Features
For a full list of all the Evince features check our wiki page.

Search
Integrated search displaying the number of results found and highlights the results on the page.

Page Thumbnails
Thumbnails of pages show quick reference for where you’d like to go in a document. Evince’s thumbnails are available in the left sidebar of the viewer.

Page Indexing
For documents that support indexes Evince gives the option to show the document index for quick jumping from one section to another.