How to deal with evince inserting substitution fonts in the fillable PDF when saving?

When I’m filling a given PDF file, the field font gets ugly after filling values (bigger and different font). It seems to be related to the fact that evince performs fonts substitution at opening (menu > Properties…). Times-Roman is substituted by Nimbus Roman No9 L Helvetica is substituted by Nimbus Sans L ZapfDingbats is substituted … Read more

Poppler installation

I downloaded the new poppler 0.15 tar ball and i built it from source successfully but when trying dpkg -l | grep poppler it outputs ii libpoppler-dev 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF rendering library — development files ii libpoppler-glib-dev 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF rendering library — development files (GLib interface) ii libpoppler-glib4 0.12.4-1ubuntu1 PDF rendering library (GLib-based shared library) ii … Read more

Poppler installation

I downloaded the new poppler 0.15 tar ball and i built it from source successfully but when trying dpkg -l | grep poppler it outputs ii libpoppler-dev 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF rendering library — development files ii libpoppler-glib-dev 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF rendering library — development files (GLib interface) ii libpoppler-glib4 0.12.4-1ubuntu1 PDF rendering library (GLib-based shared library) ii … Read more

Poppler installation

I downloaded the new poppler 0.15 tar ball and i built it from source successfully but when trying dpkg -l | grep poppler it outputs ii libpoppler-dev 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF rendering library — development files ii libpoppler-glib-dev 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF rendering library — development files (GLib interface) ii libpoppler-glib4 0.12.4-1ubuntu1 PDF rendering library (GLib-based shared library) ii … Read more

OSX Change default program to brew installed binary

I’m very disappointed that Apple was still not capable to fix Preview app and my PDFs are all still blurry (comparison between Evince and Preview) on FullHD monitors. So I installed Evince from brew and when I want to use it, I must always use terminal and type nohup evince (or something similar…). So my … Read more

Javascript links to embedded documents in PDF with linux

I have received a PDF file which embeds (hundreds of) documents, which I can access directly using the “Embedded files” function in okular (but I have not found an equivalent in evince): These documents are linked with specific text elements in the PDF file, using a hyperref, which is convenient to find which spreadsheet corresponds … Read more

Why does Evince for Windows look so much cleaner than the Linux version?

To be more specific, I would like Evince in Linux to open chapters to books without opening all of the sub-sections in those chapters as well. By hitting the right arrow key, Evince in Windows opens only a Chapter and all sub-sections stay closed. How can I get this same functionality in Linux? Answer You … Read more

How do you get evince to display svgs?

Evince does not support svgs on its own, however I have the following situation: Ubuntu 11.04 / Evince 2.32.0 Ubuntu 11.10 / Evince 3.2.1 Debian 7.0 / Evince 3.4.0 Now, the odd thing is, on 1. I can open svg files with plain evince and it renders them correctly. On both 2. and 3., however, … Read more