Command Line The evince command can open any number of files, at specific pages and in various modes. Phil Bull philbull@gmail.com Tiffany Antopolski tiffany@antopolski.com

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The Command Line

To start the Document Viewer from the command line, type evince. You can open a specific file by typing the filename after the evince command:

evince file.pdf

You can open multiple files by typing the filenames after the evince command, separating the filenames by a space:

evince file1.pdf file2.pdf

Evince also supports the handling of files on the web. For example, after the evince command you can give the location of a file on the web:

evince http://www.claymath.org/millennium/P_vs_NP/pvsnp.pdf
Opening A Document At A Specific Page

You can use the --page-label switch to open a document at a specific page. For example, to open a document to page 3, you would type:

evince --page-label=3

The page label should be in the same format as the page number displayed in the Document Viewer toolbar.

Opening A Document In Fullscreen Mode evince --fullscreen file.pdf
Opening A Document In Presentation Mode evince --presentation file.pdf
Opening A Document In Preview Mode evince --preview file.pdf