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+<!--
+Thanks for using Evince!
+
+If you want to ask for a feature request, please search through the current issues, there is a big chance that the request has been asked already.
+
+When reporting bugs about Evince, it is most helpful to include the document you were viewing. If you can provide a link to this document please include that link so the Evince developers can test against that document as well.
+
+See also https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/PopplerBugs#How_to_check_if_a_bug_belongs_to_Poppler_or_Evince to learn how to check if a bug belongs to Poppler or Evince.
+
+An ideal bug report looks like below:
+-->
+### Summary
+
+REPLACE-ME: Explain in short what is the problem, e.g: crashed while opening PDF document
+
+### Description
+
+REPLACE-ME: more detailed description of the problem. If the problem happens on a specific document, please add a link or attach the document. If evince is crashing, a backtrace is always useful. A good example would be: "I clicked on a link from Epiphany which opened Evince for viewing a PDF document. Evince crashed before actually rendering anything at all. Attached you can find the document and the backtrace after the crash"