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-Atril
-==================================================
-Atril is a document viewer capable of displaying
-multiple and single page document formats like PDF
-and Postscript. For more general information about
-Atril please visit our website at
-
-https://github.com/mate-desktop/atril
-
-Atril is a fork of Evince
-
-This software is licensed under the GPL
-
-Atril Requirements
-==================================================
-MATE Platform libraries [ https://github.com/mate-desktop/ ]
-Poppler for PDF viewing [ http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ ]
-GhostScript for Postscript viewing [ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ ]
-
-Atril Optional Backend Libraries
-==================================================
-DjVuLibre for DjVu viewing [ http://djvulibre.djvuzone.org/ ]
-Rar for viewing CBR comics [ http://www.rarsoft.com/ ]
-libgxps for XPS documents [ https://wiki.gnome.org/libgxps ]
-
-Atril Requirements to Run Tests
-==================================================
-python-dogtail [ https://fedorahosted.org/dogtail/ ]
-python-pyatspi2 [ http://download.gnome.org/sources/pyatspi/ ]
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+Atril
+==================================================
+Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI, XPS and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks. Atril is a fork of Evince.
+
+This software is licensed under the GNU GPL. For more on the license, see COPYING.
+
+Atril Requirements
+==================================================
+* [MATE Platform libraries](https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/)
+
+* [Poppler](https://poppler.freedesktop.org/) for PDF viewing
+
+* [GhostScript](https://www.ghostscript.com/) for PostScript viewing
+
+Atril Optional Backend Libraries
+==================================================
+* [DjVuLibre](http://djvu.sourceforge.net/) for DjVu viewing
+
+* [RAR](https://www.rarlab.com/) for viewing CBR comics
+
+* [libgxps](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/libgxps) for XPS documents
+
+Atril Requirements to Run Tests
+==================================================
+* [python-dogtail](https://gitlab.com/dogtail/dogtail)
+* [python-pyatspi2](https://download.gnome.org/sources/pyatspi/)