Evince is Gnome's document viewer - just like the Preview in Mac OS X
What is Evince?
Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi. 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
Built-in Support
* PDF using the Poppler backend
* Postscript using the libspectre backend
* Multi-Page TIFF
* DVI
* DjVu using the DjVuLibre backend
Optional Support
* Impress
* Comics
* ImagesFeatures
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.
Document Indexes
* When index information is included in a PDF Evince will display it in a tree format.
Document Printing
* Using the GNOME/GTK printing framework Evince can print any document it can open
Encrypted Document Viewing
* Evince can open PDF documents that have been encrypted
... with the system, small, light, fast, get-things-done !
I like it much much more than the heavy Acrobat Reader.
However, last Friday, after I reinstalled the system, Evince's menu fonts cannot display correctly
Google gives me nothing helpful ...
I created a new account and found his evince's menu displayed correctly
It must be some of my local setting causes the problem!
I checked my .xinitrc .profile .bash_profile .bashrc files - nothing looks related to font setting.
How about changing the display font. In the new account, "Sans" was used as application font. So, I went to Preferences - Appearance - Fonts, changed it! Bingo...
It makes me happy, especially when I solved the problem that is not googlable. However, I am still very puzzled - I was running Karmic and Evince was fine; after I reinstalled the system, something changed globally, which causes my original font "Liberation Sans" cannot be correctly displayed in Evince's menu.
Thanks, very helpful since I was having same problems, I changed to sans and now Evince is looking fine.
Thanks!
That was the workaround. I changed from Sans to Liberation Sans, although I find the 1st one more pleasing. Now developers please fix this silly bug.