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Evince hasn't followed this path and is still one of the quickest PDF file readers to work with. Many programs end up adding so many small functions that in the end they can't perform their main purpose properly, and they are no longer comfortable to use. It can only be used to perform this action, and it does so in the most important way: quickly and being very stable. Evince is a brilliant PDF and PostScript viewer. Use Firefox!: What PDF viewers are available for Ubuntu? Okular was buggy there too, I forgot why now.Forget about great applications with dozens of functions that are totally useless.

It has a default jump at Alt + Shift + Left/Right, and other key features like searching in the Table of Contents (or at least has them in a place I can easily find).īest solution I've found for Ubuntu 18.04 if I visit and click a table of contents link, Alt + P does nothing instead of jumping back to the table of contents as expected.īest solution I've found for Ubuntu 20.04 However, possibly due to the aforementioned history bugs, the feature is still useless to me, e.g. Tha bug was fixed in Evince 3.32 as mentioned at: and as of 3.34.1-1 I have a "Keyboard Shortcuts" menu entry that shows "Alt + P" and "Alt +N" as the shortcuts. There was no default ( Alt+Left) shortcut / it is not documented / I don't have the patience to find out how to create it: The history jump does not jump to the expected location of a sane human: These have haunted me for years, including Ubuntu 18.04, Evince 3.28.2, and make the history jump back feature unusable for the technical documents I read all day: I've made a minimal test file for this now:

Okular 20.08 history is completely broke with Alt+Shift+Left/Right, possibly: /msg489269.html.

Evince 3.38 history is working fine, notably with the Alt+P/Alt+N shortcuts (but I discovered that their header only search is useless: How to find/search for text results only in the Outline/headers in PDFs open in Evince? so I still can't use it daily).

Things have flipped around now, it's so much fun: I cannot find the toolbar button anymore.

Both should offer the function you're searching for.Īs of Evince 3.32, the key bindings are Alt + P and Alt + N. If you're looking for customization you might be better off with a PDF viewer like Okular or qpdfview anyway. I don't think there's any hotkey by default but you might be able to add a custom one.

Under Evince 3.4 you can activate a "back" button by editing the toolbar ( Edit → Toolbar drag and drop functions to toolbar):