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.

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.

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.

Sometimes, i open documents in other languages different that mine, and i need to translate some words or whole phrases to my language. I need a simple and easy way to do it.

I use to attach ordinary colorful clips to my ordinary books; each color has a meaning. Sometimes I use post-it to do this. I miss doing that in a pdf reader.

For Vim users it would be nice if Evince responded to more Vim-style navigation. It already goes up and down line by line using "j" and "k", so why not add other useful stuff as "gg", "Shift-g" and "Control-b"? (Control-f is already the search, but the space substitutes that).

This does not prejudice anyone, and it is good for us
vim users.... :-)

Hello,

I am a user of ubuntu karmic which is distributed to the user with the evince program.
Your pdf reader is really efficient. I like it a lot.

But there is one device that I need which forces me to use Kpdf: I need to extract parts from the documents I read. Obviously Your system does that... but it follows the linear evolution of the documents.

Which means that if I have a document with columns, I highlight all of the columns in the same time. I can't extract only one column of the document with the copy/paste function.

In Kpdf though you can do it since they have designed a system that doesn't follow the linear logic. They have a square box highlighting area and you control what you copy. You have designed a fishing net, they have invented the fishing rod!

So that's the reason why I am writing you. If you have time to check the Kpdf system you will easily see the difference and the use of it. And I hope that you will have time to develop the idea since I am not a computer designer myself.

I wish you good luck in your other activities.
And Thank you for the time you spend for other people.

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.

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.

I write some scientific papers in LaTeX, and i use Evince to preview the results. But i have found some nasty things when using "hyperlinks"-text. Here are some of them:

- Suppose that i start reading a new document and i pickup the table of contents, which is full of hyperlinks to other pages. If I just click one of those links, then i go to the selected page but, damn!, i have to use the page-selector or the scrollbar in order to return to the table of contents.

- When i read a document and it includes a bibliographical citation (in the form [N] where N is a number) i'd like to see, in an easy way, the bibliographical entry pointed out.