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Large document scrolling is difficult in Evince
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Written by hunt.topher the 29 Apr 10 at 16:12.
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When I'm viewing a large document in Evince, I don't want to have to fumble around for the scrollbars, and while scrolling with the arrow keys works, this is jerky and awkward to use at times. I'd love a better way to scroll around large documents - for example, in Okular, you can click and drag your mouse to pan and scroll; the mouse even cycles over your screen height so you can scroll indefinitely using a single click.
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Separe the select and pan functions in Evince
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Written by azimout the 16 Jul 08 at 11:54.
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It was not obvious, but I found that you can pan in Evince by holding down the middle click button. This is the famous "hand tool". I find this functionality very useful, but kinda awkward... In Adobe Reader you click the cooresponding button in the toolbar, which changes the left-click behaviour.
This would make panning much more intuitive (off the top of my head, I cannot think of another app where you hold down the middle click button, I might be wrong), plus you cannot use the feature currently with a touchpad...
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Digital editions
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Written by futurenow123 the 12 Aug 09 at 21:20.
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Adobe digital editions isn't available for linux, so why not make our own PDF library organizer + viewer ?
The Whole idea is to have an organizer of documents like songbird for linux . so you don't have to remember the last page read if you want to continue reading a book . E-books are getting more and more popular . Ebook readers even more so . => Ebook viewer+organizer should come in really handy
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Savable PDF forms in Evince and Okular
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Written by xfuser4 the 17 Oct 09 at 09:16.
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PDF forms are more and more used by public administrations (at least in Germany). As bureaucracy is always annoying, you have to fill out the same PDF forms over and over - the most time with the same stuff.
As a system administrator, secretaries asking me often how to save PDF forms under Ubuntu. On every other operating system, I miss this feature - so Ubuntu could provide a simple, but needed feature here, that others don't provide...
The problem is, that there is really no free software. Even Adobe Reader is not able to do so. Only PDF editors (Adobe Acrobat, Cabaret and PDFEdit) are able, to manipulate the forms - the problem is, that most PDF files are so bad, that the available free PDF editors are crashing.
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There is no easy GUI solution for OCR in Ubuntu.
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Written by hunt.topher the 30 Mar 09 at 02:15.
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OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a useful tool for anyone who has PDFs or other documents containing scanned verbal material that you want in copiable text form (for storage purposes, for use on a portable reader device, etc).
Anyone who wishes to take advantage of the OCR tools available in Linux to convert scanned PDFs into text must generally rely on command line tools (for converting the PDF into images, for converting images into the right format, or for running the OCR program) to get the job done. This is an effective barrier to use for the average office worker.
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extended reading strains the eyes on different monitors
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Written by xeptf4 the 9 Dec 10 at 11:22.
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Reading a black on white background pdf strains the eyes. Students and developers who need to go through massive amounts of text find it difficult to do so, given how harsh it is to the eyes. There does not seem to be any alternative to achieve this and inverting colors just does not solve the problem and can in fact magnify it, especially on shiny lcd screens. The users should be able to change the background and/or text color.
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Viewing large PDFs can be difficult at times
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Written by Daminvar the 1 Jun 09 at 21:04.
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Currently in evince it is difficult to quickly scan through a large PDF. Some PDFs have a Table of Contents, which makes it easier, but not all have one. Moving with the keyboard is also a possible solution, but I don't think it's ideal. If I leave the cursor at a section of text then when I try to use the keyboard to scroll, I jump back to wherever I last had the cursor. The dragging feature with middle click is far too cumbersome, I think, for traversing large documents, and it seems more suited for Tablet PCs and touchscreens than mice.
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finger touch in evince
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Written by tarjxvf the 8 Jul 10 at 02:28.
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Evince is a great document viewer for both pdf and djvu files. Today I found that the Evince in Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't support finger touch yet. Thus in the slate mode of my tablet, I cannot use my finger to flip pages.
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horizontal continuous view (leftto right) in evince document viewer
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Written by futurenow123 the 12 Aug 09 at 20:25.
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Can you make it so that instead of scrolling down to the next page, that I would scroll left or right to the next page. This would in a way emulate touch screen flicking with a hand giving a nicer book reading experience . Here is a sketch
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instead of going continuously down, which is tiresome .Sideways like I'm suggesting will make it more fluid booklike and this will make document reading alot easier
I think there should be a plugin switch up/down left/right continuous type . how hard can it be to code .
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Printing Dialogs Should Not Remember Settings
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Written by jirka the 12 Nov 09 at 01:09.
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Somebody got the idea that printing dialog (at least in evince) should remember their settings. This is incredibly annoying. I am being bit by this at least once a week. I print a lot of documents. I print certain page ranges often, I switch what resolution I want to use. If I want to print pages 50-55 at 1200dpi single sided, that almost certainly means I will NOT want to ever do that again. Next time, I will most likely want to print different pages, perhaps at different resolution. Or most likely I will want to print that document with default settings.
Why can't the printing dialog ALWAYS start at the defaults. If it saves settings it should be only in response to some user action.
What is the use case where this is useful. As far as I can tell it is only annoying. I have to look through ALL tabs just to make sure that everything is set back to the defaults. If I want to quickly print something because I have little time usually results in getting 8 copies of page 50-55 spitting out at the printer that's 2 stories up and I'll figure that out only once I've gone up the stairs.
Also, if I print something with nonstandard settings, I then can't figure out how to make sure the settings DO NOT get remembered. Do I have to print the document again? I have to say this is one of my main points of frustration with Ubuntu (and Fedora which does the same because it's evince doing it).
I considered filing this as a bug, but this seems more appropriate. Obviously evince works as the author intended, it just doesn't work as a user would think it works.
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