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Evince has the option to add bookmarks. My question is simple?

Where is the information about bookmarks stored?

mreq
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All evince bookmarks are stored as GIO metadata under $HOME/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/.

You can view all stored metadata for a specific file with

gvfs-info -a "metadata::evince::bookmarks" <document-uri>

References:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evince-list/2011-August/msg00000.html

Glutanimate
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I had an issue applying Glutanimate's answer. When I tested it, gvfs-info was not working. Some Web research led me to the conclusion that it is because gvfs-info has been abandoned in favor of gio.

So please try instead:

gio info -a "metadata::evince::bookmarks" <file>
LFMekz
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I would like to add to the answer that if your application was installed with flatpak, the gio command won't work because a flatpak application is sandboxed, and the GIO/GVFS metadata is stored under the flatpak app's data folder, ~/.var/app/<flatpak-application-name> (in the case of the new document reader, GNOME Papers, it's under ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Papers/data/gvfs-metadata).

To read the GIO metadata from the flatpak sandbox, launch gio from the flatpak sandbox by overriding its command with gio:

flatpak run --command=gio org.gnome.Evince \
  info -a "metadata::evince::bookmarks" <document-uri>

Note that what comes after the application name is considered arguments for the command (here, gio).

I haven't verified with Evince as a flatpak, but I tested this with the new document reader, GNOME Papers, installed with flatpak (flatpak install org.gnome.Papers). It stores booksmarks exactly the same way, substituting the name evince by papers:

$ flatpak run --command=gio org.gnome.Papers \
  info -a "metadata::papers::bookmarks" <document-uri>
uri : file:///home/<user>/Documents/<somedocument>.pdf
local path : /home/<user>/Documents/<somedocument>.pdf
(ommitted mount details)
attributes :
  metadata::papers::bookmarks: [(246, 'Bookmark 1'), (351, 'Bookmark 2'), (313, 'Bookmark 3')]
SylvainC
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