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Evince 0.1.1

From:  Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco-AT-gnome.org>
To:  gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  Evince 0.1.1
Date:  Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:43:18 +0100
Cc:  evince-list-AT-gnome.org

Hi,

* What is it ?
==============

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats like pdf,
postscript,
and many others. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers
that exist on the GNOME Desktop, like ggv, gpdf, and xpdf with a 
single simple application.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

* What's changed ?
==================

==============
Evince   0.1.1
==============

New features

        * Actually print PDF files
        * Navigation history
        * Support Links
        * Support encrypted PDFs
        * A desktop file

Interface improvements

        * Rename Bookmarks sidebar to Index
        * Use filename as title if the file doesn't have a title (Jeff
          Muizelaar) or if the title is empty
        * Make navigation with thumbnails possible (Anders Carlsson)
        * (De)Sensitize actions as necessary (Dave Malcolm)
        * Show a wait cursor while the page is rendering
        * Center the page; draw a page border
        * Undo selection on page change
        * Shorter toolbar item labels
        * Make selection work in any direction

Code changes

        * Render PDFs directly as packed RGB
        * Update egg-recent code (not used yet)
        * Update to latest Xpdf patchlevel

Bug fixes

        * PostScript backend fixes
        * Pixbuf backend fixes (Jeff Muizelaar)
        * Set page spin button limits correctly (Anders Carlsson)
        * Fix problem when base fonts are installed as pcf files.
        * Keep search selection highlighting correct even when
          zooming/changing window size (Stephane LOEUILLET)

Translation updates

        * cs (Miloslav Trmac)
        * de (Frank Arnold)
        * en_CA (Adam Weinberger)
        * es (Antonio Ognio)
        * nb (Kjartan Maraas)
        * nl (Tino Meinen)

* Where can I get it ?
======================

Source code:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evince/0.1/evince-0...

It requires GNOME 2.9 libraries.

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