Evince vs qpdfview

Evince

Description: Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It is simple, fast and designed to integrate well with the GNOME desktop environment. Evince supports common formats like PDF, PostScript, DjVu, and TIFF.

Type: software

Pricing: Free

qpdfview

Description: qpdfview is a tabbed document viewer for PDF and other file formats like PostScript, DejaVu, XPS, DjVu and others. It aims to be lightweight and configurable. Key features include zooming, printing, annotations and searching.

Type: software

Evince Features

• View PDF documents
• View PostScript documents
• View comic book archives
• View TIFF images
• View DjVu documents
• View XPS documents
• View DVI documents
• View encrypted PDF files
• Print documents
• Zoom in/out
• Thumbnails sidebar
• Fullscreen mode
• Presentation mode
• Annotations

qpdfview Features

• Tabbed document interface
• Support for PDF, PostScript, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR and FictionBook (FB2) formats
• Configurable user interface
• Page rendering with anti-aliasing and text hinting for smooth reading
• Zooming, rotating pages and scrolling with keyboard shortcuts
• Thumbnails, bookmarks and table of contents
• Annotations and form filling
• Searching text
• Printing support
• Password protected PDF support
• Minimal dependencies - uses Qt5 and Poppler

Evince

• Free

qpdfview

• Not listed