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A screenshot of the GNOME Papers app showing a PDF document being annotated with freehand ink drawings and added text boxes.

Papers adds handwriting & text annotations in latest Nightly builds

Papers gains new PDF annotation tools, including ink, text boxes and improved form support, now available in GNOME Nightly builds.

3 hours ago
Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

Ubuntu 25.04’s New PDF Viewer App is Now Rolling Out

Earlier this year Ubuntu announced plans to replace document viewer app Evince with Papers, a modern GTK4/libadwaita fork1 of the former, in Ubuntu 25.04—today, the swap was made official. Papers is a fork of Evince […]

5 March 2025

Ubuntu 25.04 Set to Ship With New PDF Viewer

It could be all change for the PDF viewer in the next version of Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s long-time PDF viewer Evince (aka Document Viewer) is comes preinstalled in Ubuntu at present—I can’t recall using a version […]

13 November 2024
evince document viewer displaying an adobe illustrator file

Evince 3.26 Will Let You View Adobe Illustrator & CBR Files

Evince, the default document viewer on Ubuntu, is adding support for more file formats. The next stable release, Evince 3.26, due in October, will allow you to view Adobe Illustrator files on Linux without needing […]

26 July 2017
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Enjoy your PDF images a touch smoother in Lucid

For the last couple of years, this bug has been plaguing poppler – the PDF rendering engine that drives Evince in Ubuntu. The problem was that images weren’t being anti-aliased properly, and hence looked very bad […]

1 April 2010