Evince is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single page document formats like PDF and Postscript.
The gitlab repo for Evince was created May 22, 2018 and looks to be last updated yesterday.
Papers:
Papers is a document viewer capable of displaying multiple and single page document formats like PDF and DejaVu.
The gitlab repo for Papers was created March 29, 2022 and looks to be last updated 3 months ago.
I think in my years of using Gnome I’ve never used either, and had to search apps to see if I even had them installed. I have Evince under the fantastic title “document viewer” which is fixed in that commit yesterday. As for Papers, I don’t even have it installed on 49-alpha.
Evince:
The gitlab repo for Evince was created May 22, 2018 and looks to be last updated yesterday.
Papers:
The gitlab repo for Papers was created March 29, 2022 and looks to be last updated 3 months ago.
I think in my years of using Gnome I’ve never used either, and had to search apps to see if I even had them installed. I have Evince under the fantastic title “document viewer” which is fixed in that commit yesterday. As for Papers, I don’t even have it installed on 49-alpha.
Evince is much older than 2018. I remember using it on Ubuntu 10.04. Iirc, like KDE, Gnome moved its repositories to Gitlab back in 2018.