Ubuntu 25.04’s New PDF Viewer App is Now Rolling Out
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Dabbled with daily builds of the Plucky Puffin prior to now?
You might have noticed Papers isn’t present on the ISO or actual installs. This is because ‘paperwork’ was needed first: packaging Papers in Debian, syncing it to plucky‘s universe repo, filing a main inclusion request (MIR) to move to main, and passing security review.
Hurdles cleared, today saw Plucky’s ubuntu-meta file (currently in -proposed) updated to finally commit to the swap, with Evince removed and Papers added, meaning the app will now start propagating out for wider testing.
Not that it’s a done dusted implementation yet; there’s further work to be done.
Ubuntu devs need to patch GTK3 to let GTK3 apps use Papers for print previews (as Evince currently does), and the .desktop file needs to be updated to label Papers as Document Viewer in the app picker, adhering to GNOME apps’ agnostic name conventions.