Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-gtk-gn...@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 src:papers Owner: jeremy.bi...@canonical.com
Package Name: papers Version: 46.1 Upstream Author: Pablo Correa Gómez, Markus Göllnitz, Evince authors License: GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C and Rust Description: PDF document viewer for GNOME Papers is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print DjVu, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks. Other Info -------------- Papers is a fork of Evince. Papers uses GTK4 and libadwaita (evince uses GTK3). The app now uses Rust for some features. Papers has been proposed to replace Evince as the default PDF viewer for GNOME 47. Evince is not just an app but also libraries for other apps to support PDF (etc.) viewing. Papers also provides those libraries but they have been renamed and use GTK4 now. Those other apps may not be ready for GTK4 yet so we will keep the Evince libraries available for Debian 13. It hasn't yet been finalized what formats the app will support beyond PDF. DVI support has been dropped upstream. Debian, like most distros, has continued to enable viewing PostScript files in Evince although the Evince developers have disabled that by default for years. This package will be maintained by the Debian GNOME team. Packaging will be at https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/papers The upstream source is at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers Thanks, Jeremy Bícha
