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6 <link type="guide" xref="index#reading"/>
7 <desc>How to open a document using <app>Evince</app>.</desc>
8 <link type="seealso" xref="formats"/>
9 <link type="seealso" xref="commandline"/>
11 <revision pkgversion="2.30.3" version="0.1" date="2010-07-26" status="review"/>
12 <credit type="author">
13 <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
14 <email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email>
17 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
22 <title>Opening A Document</title>
24 <p>You can open a document in <app>Evince</app> using the following ways:</p>
27 <item><p> Double-click on the file icon in the file manager or on the Desktop. </p>
29 Double clicking opens PDF, PostScript, .djvu, .dvi and Comic Book Archive files in the Document Viewer by default.
33 <item><p>Right-click on a file icon on the Desktop or in the file manager and click <guiseq><gui>Open With</gui><gui>Document Viewer</gui></guiseq>.</p>
37 <p>If a Document View window is already open you can: </p>
39 <item><p>drag a file icon into the window from the Desktop or the file manager. The new file will open in a new window (provided the file is of a file type supported by Document Viewer).</p></item>
40 <item><p>choose <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Open</gui></guiseq> from the Menubar. In the Open Document dialog box, choose the file you wish to open, and click <gui>Open</gui>. The file will open in a new window.</p></item>