I offered to mentor again for the Google Summer of Code. This time for Evince and it’s annotations / bookmarks feature. We already did a design for the annotations a while back so the project should be off to an early start. Oh, and Joshua Drake of commandprompt.com recently sent a message to the Evince [...]

Sometimes it’s too funny to see Evince in action. Current FC4 Screenshot and Debian Screenshot (original debian screenshot sent to me). These are known bugs, but to have to view an article on Evince with Acrobat is just precious. Federal Reserve Robert: not only is Bernanke going to target inflation but it seems he will [...]

Hans-Jörg Ehren sent this message to the evince list Linux Magazine Evince Article Aparently Linux Magazine Issue 61 has a nice article (in PDF format) about Evince. Since that article came out the list has been getting a number of new people sending nice little notes. J-O-B Do you rock? Do you rock out? If [...]

jrb: Our click through rate is already doing really well, even with just the people trying it from CVS HEAD. Soon we’ll have enough to buy our own island which we’ll name Evince, or maybe Document Viewer so people can find it better…

Spent yesterday up at Apple Hill talking with people about the OLPC project. Met Alan Kay and lots of others. Also spent some time talking with Jimmy G. Alan Kay and others Lake Champlain Going back up to the the lake this weekend, Jenny’s family is having a big party that will be a great [...]

Today’s word is rictus, meaning a gaping grin or grimace. Probably relating to me miss-spelling yesterdays word in the title or possibly other stupid things I did. Notifications Rodrigo makes a bunch of good points in his entry. The dialogs that Gaim and Evo use are ridiculous and disturbing but just using notification bubbles doesn’t [...]

Lots of new stuff landed on Evince whilst I was gone. Here are some of the highlights of those crazy new features. Everyone should be using the Cairo Poppler backend by now, otherwise that pain you’re feeling is my boot up your ass. Anyway, enough chit chat, here’s the screenshots of the page rotation menu [...]

Dual Page and Continuous Scroll (in cvs only) Evince has been making huge progress and has released a 0.2.1 (unstable) version recently. Since software sales pitches always requires feature lists, so here’s the latest feature craze: Support for DJVU book format Improved backend support for the DVI backend Improved the find bar interaction Badass completion [...]

Tons of progress with Evince, in the past 3 days there have been at least 21 commits. Many of the bugs posted previously got patches and fixed. The new release will be out soon We need to move on the common libpdf at Free Desktop if we want to make any more real progress with [...]

Evince has an imminent new release coming and is looking to branch off the current codebase pretty soon. However we still have a number of bugs that would be great to get patches for and get into the coming release. Here’s the list of bugs that I’ve been tracking starting with the cooler ones, the [...]

Just use Evince. Evince is reaching a new release mark of 0.2 soon and to celebrate we have a new project web site (go ahead, follow the link). The web site design was done by Diana Fong, our Desktop Visual Designer while I did the HTML and CSS, which if any is the part might [...]

Yup, Jonathan mentioned this before but the last few days of work in December a lot of people on the Red Hat Desktop team had already taken off for vacation so we had a mini-hackfest. Evince So here’s the story… We pooled whatever people weren’t on vacation together to examine gpdf and ggv and xpdf [...]