---
name: "epdfview"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "epdfview"
version: "0.1.8-3"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/epdfview"
---

# epdfview(1)

view PDF documents

## NAME

epdfview - view PDF documents

## SYNOPSIS

**epdfview** \[ *OPTION...* \] \[ *FILE* \]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **epdfview** command.

The aim of **epdfview** is to make a simple PDF document viewer, in the lines of [**evince**(1)](/evince/1.md) but without using the GNOME libraries.

## OPTIONS

### Help Options

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show help options

- **--help-all**

  Show all help options

- **--help-gtk**

  Show GTK+ Options

### GTK+ Options

- **--class=***CLASS*

  Program class as used by the window manager

- **--name=***NAME*

  Program name as used by the window manager

- **--screen=***SCREEN*

  X screen to use

- **--sync**

  Make X calls synchronous

- **--gtk-module=***MODULES*

  Load additional GTK+ modules

- **--g-fatal-warnings**

  Make all warnings fatal

### Application Options

- **--display=***DISPLAY*

  X display to use

## SEE ALSO

[**evince**(1)](/evince/1.md), [**xpdf**(1)](/xpdf/1.md)

## AUTHOR

**epdfview** is © 2006, 2007, 2009 Jordi Fita \<jordi@emma-soft.com\>

This manual page was written by Francois Wendling \<frwendling@free.fr\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).