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7 <title type="sort">Command Line</title>
8 <desc>The <cmd>evince</cmd> command can open any number of files, at specific pages and in various modes.</desc>
9 <revision pkgversion="2.30.3" version="0.1" date="2010-07-26" status="review"/>
10 <credit type="author">
11 <name>Phil Bull</name>
12 <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
13 <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
14 <email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email>
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22 <title>The Command Line</title>
25 To start the Document Viewer from the command line, type <cmd>evince</cmd>. You
26 can open a specific file by typing the filename after the evince command:
29 <screen>evince file.pdf</screen>
31 You can open multiple files by typing the filenames after the evince command, separating the filenames by a space:
33 <screen>evince file1.pdf file2.pdf</screen>
35 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:
37 <screen>evince http://www.claymath.org/millennium/P_vs_NP/pvsnp.pdf</screen>
39 <title>Opening A Document At A Specific Page</title>
41 You can use the <cmd>--page-label</cmd> switch to open a document at a
42 specific page. For example, to open a document to page 3, you would type:
44 <screen>evince --page-label=3</screen>
46 The page label should be in the same format as the page number displayed in
47 the Document Viewer toolbar.
51 <title>Opening A Document In Fullscreen Mode</title>
52 <screen>evince --fullscreen file.pdf</screen>
55 <title>Opening A Document In Presentation Mode</title>
56 <screen>evince --presentation file.pdf</screen>
59 <title>Opening A Document In Preview Mode</title>
60 <screen>evince --preview file.pdf</screen>