{"id":48079,"date":"2025-02-06T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48079"},"modified":"2025-02-13T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T15:10:15","slug":"papers-replace-evince-gnome-pdf-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/papers-replace-evince-gnome-pdf-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Papers Expects to replace Evince as GNOME Default PDF Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-48080\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-icon-700x700.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you may know, GNOME is moving to GTK4 + LibAdwaita in recent years. Core apps are either ported to the new frameworks or replaced with new ones.<\/p>\n<p>GNOMOE Text Editor, GNOME Camera, GNOME Console, and Loupe replaced Gedit, Cheese, GNOME Terminal, and Eyes of GNOME as default text editor, camera app, terminal, and image viewer. And, it introduced Decibels as new core app for playing audio files.<\/p>\n<p>Papers entered <a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.gnome.org\/GNOME\/Incubator\/papers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GNOME Incubator<\/a> about a year ago, expects to replace Evince as default PDF and Document viewer. Now it&#8217;s made into Debian (Unstable) and Ubuntu (25.04) repository for choice, and it&#8217;s expected to be default perhaps later this year according to <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.ubuntu.com\/t\/desktop-team-integration-squad-updates-monday-3rd-february-2025\/54488\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48081\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome-papers.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48081\" class=\"size-large wp-image-48081\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome-papers-700x464.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome-papers-700x464.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome-papers-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome-papers-768x509.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome-papers-1320x875.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome-papers.webp 1402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GNOME Papers<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Papers is a free open-source app that can view, search, or annotate documents in PDF, PS, EPS, XPS, DjVu, TIFF, and Comic Books archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7).<\/p>\n<p>It has almost same features to the current Evince document viewer, including search text, text and highlight annotation, bookmark, print, present as slideshow, etc. While, there&#8217;s an unique &#8220;Sign Digitally&#8221; menu option if you have a signing\u00a0<em>certificate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While Evince is stuck at GTK3, Papers follows GNOME policy to use GTK4 and LibAdwaita libraries for its modern UI that looks native in recent GNOME Desktops. And, the app window is adaptive to fit different screen sizes including mobile phone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48082\" style=\"width: 492px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-dark.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48082\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48082\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-dark.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-dark.webp 482w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-dark-207x300.webp 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papers is adaptive to fit different screen sizes<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>How to Install the new Papers Document\/PDF Viewer in Ubuntu &amp; other Linux<\/h3>\n<p>The app has been made into Debian Unstable and Ubuntu 25.04 system repositories.<\/p>\n<p>For current Ubuntu releases and most other Linux, it&#8217;s available to install as <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/org.gnome.Papers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak package<\/a> that runs in sandbox environment.<\/p>\n<p>Linux Mint 21\/22 and Fedora workstation can simply search for and install it from either Software Manager or GNOME Software.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48084\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-mint.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48084\" class=\"size-large wp-image-48084\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-mint-700x518.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-mint-700x518.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-mint-300x222.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-mint-768x568.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/papers-mint.webp 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papers in Linux Mint&#8217;s software manager<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While Debian\/Ubuntu and other Linux can install the package by running the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install Flatpak daemon:\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p>For other Linux, follow the official <a href=\"https:\/\/flatpak.org\/setup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">setup guide<\/a> to enable Flatpak support.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45732\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble-700x501.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble-700x501.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble-300x215.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble-768x550.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/apt-flatpak-noble.webp 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Next, run the single command below to install the Papers flatpak package:\n<pre>flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/org.gnome.Papers.flatpakref<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/flatpak-papers.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48083\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/flatpak-papers-700x411.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/flatpak-papers-700x411.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/flatpak-papers-300x176.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/flatpak-papers.webp 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this is the first Flatpak package you installed on your system, then you may need a log out and back in to make app icon visible. Or, just run the command below to start from terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak run org.gnome.Papers<\/pre>\n<p>And, for the future releases, re-run the last command by replacing <code>run<\/code> with <code>update<\/code> to check updates regularly.<\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall:<\/h3>\n<p>To uninstall the Papers flatpak package, open a terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.gnome.Papers<\/pre>\n<p>Also run <code>flatpak uninstall --unused<\/code> to clear useless runtimes which may free up some disk spaces.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, GNOME is moving to GTK4 + LibAdwaita in recent years. Core apps are either ported to the new frameworks or replaced with new ones. 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