The GNOME release team has approved the inclusion of the new document viewer, Papers, in the core GNOME distribution. Starting with GNOME 49, Papers will replace Evince under the name Document Viewer as the default document viewer. Changes related to replacing Evince with Papers have been accepted into the GNOME repository. Ubuntu On April 25.04, the Papers app was released to replace Evince.
The Papers application is a fork of Evince, created a year ago by one of the participants in the development of the evince-next branch with the aim of significantly modernizing the code base. The key differences of Papers were porting to the GTK4 library and using the Rust language for development - the code that ensures the operation of the user interface is rewritten in Rust. Significant differences also include a significant modernization of the design, increased performance and the integration of tools for certifying documents with a digital signature.
Papers is similar in functionality to Evince and also allows viewing, searching, and annotating documents in PDF, DjVu, TIFF, and comic book archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7). However, Papers has cleaned up the libppsdocument and libppsview library APIs, and dropped support for the DVI format and platform. WindowsMany internal Evince widgets have been replaced with standard GTK widgets. The papersd background process has been discontinued. Instead of manually reloading a document, this is now performed automatically when a file change is detected. The separate toolbar for adding annotations has been removed; it is recommended to use the context menu or hotkeys instead.
Source: opennet.ru
