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Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

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I use Evince probably once a week or so from the command line.  I do
not see that error, though I think I have in the past.  I suspect that
if you are seeing those issues with the current bookworm release, it
is likely a problem local to you.

You could be missing a package that evince expects to be there, but
there is a missing dependency (likely, making it a Debian problem).
You could have configured something some time ago that no longer makes
sense, either Gnome based as a whole, something local to Evince, etc,
or a cache corruption (which makes it a local issue which could be a
challenge to track down).  Or a good old fashioned bug somewhere along
the line (perhaps making it a Gnome/Evince bug).

One URL from the man page, http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/,
seems to go through a series of JavaScript based redirects to end up
at https://apps.gnome.org.  That does give a GitLab based 404 error.
I'm not sure if that is the "throws an error" situation you were
referring to or not.  Possibly related, https://circle.gnome.org gives
the same 404.  Both of those links are listed in the footer of
https:///www.gnome.org/.

However, there is another site listed in the man page:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues , and that does appear to
work.  That might be another venue you can try if you want to resolve
the issue instead of abandoning Evince.

As far as alternatives, I think both current versions of Firefox and
Chrome support PDFs natively.  Also, before I started using evince, I
used to use gv (based on ghostview) quite a bit.  The following seems
to list most of the various programs discussed in this thread, plus a
couple of others:

apt-cache search pdf-viewer

mrc

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Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 00:20 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2023-12-05 01:30 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-12-05 06:50 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-05 08:20 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 12:40 +0100
      Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 18:10 +0100
        Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 18:50 +0100
        Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2023-12-05 23:10 +0100
          Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-06 06:20 +0100
            Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince yxcv@vienna.at - 2023-12-06 10:10 +0100
            Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-12-06 13:40 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2023-12-05 03:30 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 06:30 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 19:10 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-05 08:20 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 12:40 +0100
      Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2023-12-05 14:30 +0100
        Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Bert Riding <reriding@xmission.com> - 2023-12-07 05:30 +0100
    Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Charles Kroeger <mbone@gmx.co.uk> - 2023-12-08 14:10 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince yxcv@vienna.at - 2023-12-05 08:30 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2023-12-05 09:30 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince marathon <marathon.durandal@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 12:20 +0100
  Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 13:10 +0100

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