A document viewer for the GNOME desktop. You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats.
Papers supports documents in: PDF, DjVu, TIFF, and Comic Books archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7).
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 51.0 → 51.1 | 16 Oct 2026 | |
| updated | 51.0 | 21 Sept 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
51.19 Oct 2026
Papers 51.1 has seen a few bug fixes and improvements:
- Accessibility improvements (password dialog)
- Fix a crash when used as a library
- Translation updates
51.012 Sept 2026
Papers has seen numerous improvements and bug fixes over the course of the last six months:
- Ability to insert visual signatures within Papers
- More details on paper sizes
- Use new gtk snapping API for fractional scaling
- Improved keyboard navigation (do not reset cursor page on focus)
- Several fixes for DJVU documents
- Free text annotations are now printed by default
- Adjust symbolic stroke icons to be compatible with GTK >= 4.22
- Add missing tooltips in annotations toolbar
- Default settings: don't allow documents to change zoom level by default
- Center free text annotations on insertion
- Correctly detect some checkboxes
- Save and restore window size and maximized state in the previewer
- Rename "Creator" and "Producer" PDF metadata properties fields labels to make them clearer
- Improve layout for multiple signatures in properties dialog
- Don't link buttons in document properties
- Free text annotations improvements
- In non-continuous mode, switch pages on scrolling