Atril is the official Document Viewer of the MATE Desktop Environment.
It’s a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI, XPS and Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks.
Atril is a fork of Evince.
Key Features
- Integrated search displaying the number of results found and highlights the results on the page.
- Page Thumbnails.
- Document Indexes – When index information is included in a PDF, Evince will display it in a tree format.
- Document Printing – using the GNOME/GTK printing framework Evince can print any document it can open.
- Encrypted Document Viewing.
- Internationalization support.
Formats supported:
- Portable Document Format (PDF) using the Poppler backend.
- Postscript using the GhostScript backend.
- Multi-Page Tagged Image File Format (TIFF).
- Impress.
- DjVu using the DjVuLibre backend.
- DeVice Independent (DVI) – the output format of the TeX typesetting software.
- Comics.
- Images.
Website: mate-desktop.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: MATE Team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Atril is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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