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Ubuntu 25.04 Plans Switch to New PDF App

Ubuntu 25.04 plans to include a new default PDF viewer app. Evince (aka Document Viewer) is the PDF app Ubuntu preinstalls at present. In fact, I can’t recall using a version of Ubuntu that didn’t have it in! Next April’s release of Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ will replace it with a new app called Papers. Papers is a modern GTK4/libadwaita app that is able to ‘view, search and annotate documents’ saved in a variety of different formats (not only PDF, but PDF is the certainly most ubiquitous in every-day needs). But why switch? What’s wrong with Evince? Why is a […]

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