Document Viewer Help Introduction — Introduction to the Evince Document Viewer. Reading documents Find text in a document — Search for a word or phrase in a document. Moving around a document — Navigating, scrolling and zooming. Open a document — How to open a document. Password-protected documents — Handling password protected PDFs. Presentations and other supported formats Presentations — How to play presentations. Supported formats — PDF, PostScript and many others are. Printing I can't print a document — The author may have put printing restrictions on the document. Printing a booklet — How to print a booklet. Printing a document — How to print, and common questions about printing. Annotations and bookmarks Adding annotations — How to create and customize annotations. Annotation navigation — How to navigate to annotations. Bookmarks — You can use annotations like bookmarks. Can't add annotations? — Annotations can only be added to PDF files. Removing annotations — Delete annotations from a PDF document. Save a copy of an annotated PDF — How to save your annotations. Interactive forms Forms — Working with fillable forms. Saving a form — Make sure you save the form, otherwise all of the information you entered will be lost. Frequently asked questions Can I edit documents in the document viewer? — You can't use the document viewer to edit files. Change default settings — Save current settings as default for new documents. Why can't I open a file? — Error When Opening A File. Why didn't the text I selected copy properly? — When you copy text, the text that is pasted might be different from what you had selected. Why does the document keep reloading? — Your document will be automatically reloaded if another program changes it while you're viewing it. Advanced The command line — The evince command can open any number of files, at specific pages and in various modes. Tips and tricks Converting a document to PDF — You can convert a document to PDF by "printing" it to a file. Converting a document to PostScript — You can convert a document to PostScript. Converting a document to SVG — You can convert a document to SVG by "printing" it to a file. Header bar — Using the header bar. Invert colors on a page — Inverting the colors can make it easier to read some text. SyncTeX What is SyncTeX? — SyncTeX support is available. Set-up SyncTeX — How to add support for SyncTeX. Compile TeX with SyncTeX — How to compile your TeX document with SyncTeX Supported editors — Which editor can you use to edit your TEX file? Search with SyncTeX — Flip between the document viewer and gedit. Beamer with SyncTeX — Using SyncTeX with the LaTeX Beamer class. Get involved File a bug against the document viewer — How and where to report problems. Help develop — Improve the Document Viewer. Help translate — Localize the Document Viewer. Help write documentation — Contact the Documentation Team. See Also License — Legal information.
Document Viewer Help