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NAME

evince - GNOME document viewer

The Evince Document Viewer application for the GNOME desktop
environment

SYNTAX

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

DESCRIPTION

evince

Evince is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single
page document formats like PDF and Postscript. For more general
information about Evince please visit our website at
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

OPTIONS

-?, -h, --help
Prints the command line options.

-p, --page-label=PAGE
Open the document on the page with the specified page label
(or page number).

-i, --page-index=NUMBER
Open the document on the page with the specified page index
(this is the exact page number, not a page label).

-n, --named-dest=DEST
Open the document on the specified named destination.

-f, --fullscreen
Run evince in fullscreen mode.

-s, --presentation
Run evince in presentation mode.

-l, --find=string
You can pass a word or phrase here. If it exists, evince will
display the document and the first match.

filename(s)...
Specifies the file to open when Evince starts. If this is not
specified, Evince will open a blank window. 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".


Print preview options
These options are primarily intended for use with the GTK+ print
preview function. For more information about these options see
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-
print-preview-command

-w, --preview
Run evince as a previewer.

--unlink-temp-file
If evince is run in preview mode, this will unlink the
temporary file created by GTK+.

--print-settings %s %f
This sends the full path of the PDF file, f, and the settings
of the print dialog, s, to evince.

BUGS

If you find a bug, please report it at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=evince.

GNOME 19 Jun 2011 evince(1)