Written by cousteau the 15 Feb 09 at 18:28.

Evince should be able to read more formats, like ODF (.odt), Office (.doc), and optionally plain text (.txt, .log...) and HTML (.htm, .html).

Since Evince can provide thumbnails for Nautilus, this would also extend the number of thumbnailed files.

Evince should be able to read more formats, like ODF (.odt), Office (.doc), and optionally plain text (.txt, .log...) and HTML (.htm, .html). Since Evince can provide thumbnails for Nautilus, this would also extend the number of thumbnailed files.

Written by deathsshadow77 the 16 Feb 09 at 02:22.

Do the same as above but add an edit button to evince

Do the same as above but add an edit button to evince

Written by Dinth the 16 Feb 09 at 16:49.

Like exporting to Mobipocket format in upcoming KDE4.3 version of Okular.

Like exporting to Mobipocket format in upcoming KDE4.3 version of Okular.

Written by belovedmonster the 16 Feb 09 at 18:22.

Apple has a great feature in its file browser where you hit the spacebar and you can view documents/pdfs etc in fullscreen, but clicking on the file as usual loads it up in its usual application.

See it in action here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti9NehCxhDQ

It supports plugins so basically anyone can add more supported file formats.

I would love to see something similar in Ubuntu.

Apple has a great feature in its file browser where you hit the spacebar and you can view documents/pdfs etc in fullscreen, but clicking on the file as usual loads it up in its usual application. See it in action here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti9NehCxhDQ It supports plugins so basically anyone can add more supported file formats. I would love to see something similar in Ubuntu.

Written by BadChoice the 19 Feb 09 at 07:14.

Gloobus is a preview application that now supports PDF it would be great if it could also show openoffice documents, words and comic books, just for viewing, they all can easely be developed as plugins but, well, the plugins need to be developed :D

Gloobus is a preview application that now supports PDF it would be great if it could also show openoffice documents, words and comic books, just for viewing, they all can easely be developed as plugins but, well, the plugins need to be developed :D

Written by Ivo Georgiev the 28 Feb 09 at 14:22.

Make the file managers support universal plugins for previewing/reading media files. For example, when you install Evince, a plugin is installed for the file manager to support previewing PDF files. The plugin is used by Nautilus, Dolphin and Thunar or other file managers (such as PCManFM).

The plugins should also have information inside them about
where there work best. For example, the Evince plugin has information in it that it works best in Nautilus, so every file manager chooses the plugin that works better in it for every filetype.

If there is only one plugin for this filetype, it should be used no matter in which file manager it works best.

Also, the plugins are used if there are usable, so the plugin for audio files can be located in the Nautilus package, but use mplayer. And the plugin should be only enabled if mplayer is available.

This way it should be possible to create a plugin for reading office files using the OpenOffice.org framework
without starting the whole program.

Make the file managers support universal plugins for previewing/reading media files. For example, when you install Evince, a plugin is installed for the file manager to support previewing PDF files. The plugin is used by Nautilus, Dolphin and Thunar or other file managers (such as PCManFM). The plugins should also have information inside them about where there work best. For example, the Evince plugin has information in it that it works best in Nautilus, so every file manager chooses the plugin that works better in it for every filetype. If there is only one plugin for this filetype, it should be used no matter in which file manager it works best. Also, the plugins are used if there are usable, so the plugin for audio files can be located in the Nautilus package, but use mplayer. And the plugin should be only enabled if mplayer is available. This way it should be possible to create a plugin for reading office files using the OpenOffice.org framework without starting the whole program.

Written by vikrant82 the 17 Jul 08 at 12:05.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #11236 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #11236 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by Rodrigo the 25 Jun 09 at 10:01.

Give Evince some of the abiliies of Okular:
http://okular.kde.org/
I made a mockup, please have a look:

From ubuntu
after being highlighted.
From ubuntu

I hope you get the idea.

Give Evince some of the abiliies of Okular: http://okular.kde.org/ I made a mockup, please have a look: <table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7OwdSTrOasSmPguAG3E18Q?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nve8T1z0v-4/Sj51kf4ZBGI/AAAAAAAAAdk/OrduPjWc060/s400/evince_original.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/rodrigodonado/Ubuntu?feat=embedwebsite">ubuntu</a></td></tr></table> after being highlighted. <table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/hhbvYRBs1shmjienmg4tYw?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nve8T1z0v-4/Sj51kYfJSvI/AAAAAAAAAdo/4mFOaihrLnc/s400/evince_highlight.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/rodrigodonado/Ubuntu?feat=embedwebsite">ubuntu</a></td></tr></table> I hope you get the idea.

Written by oneawesomeguy the 25 Mar 08 at 01:01.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #5654 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #5654 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by wleoncio the 14 Jul 09 at 12:15.

This problem is solved with this very simple solution. "Fit Height" explains what this zoom level really does, like on the following mockup:

This problem is solved with this very simple solution. "Fit Height" explains what this zoom level really does, like on the following mockup: <img src="http://i31.tinypic.com/jh4raw.png">

Written by McIvor the 15 Jul 09 at 22:41.

In case there is any confusion.

In case there is any confusion.

Written by Rodrigo the 16 Jul 09 at 23:53.

I think a fix to text could be more useful. The program would "remove" the margins, leaving only the text. Sometimes margins are quite big and they take away an important part of the screen.

I think a fix to text could be more useful. The program would "remove" the margins, leaving only the text. Sometimes margins are quite big and they take away an important part of the screen.

Written by hunt.topher the 30 Mar 09 at 02:15.

Given that open-source tools are available to fulfill this function (Imagemagick to convert PDFs, Tesseract to OCR to plain text), it would be useful to have a GUI button in Evince to output text from a scanned PDF.

A button "Convert this document to text" could convert a PDF into the correct image format and run an OCR program such as Tesseract to produce text, then display that text in Text Editor, all from one button-click.

Perhaps this could begin as an optional plugin while under testing.

Given that open-source tools are available to fulfill this function (Imagemagick to convert PDFs, Tesseract to OCR to plain text), it would be useful to have a GUI button in Evince to output text from a scanned PDF. A button "Convert this document to text" could convert a PDF into the correct image format and run an OCR program such as Tesseract to produce text, then display that text in Text Editor, all from one button-click. Perhaps this could begin as an optional plugin while under testing.

Written by Darwin Survivor the 30 Mar 09 at 16:52.

I think it would be more useful to have this in OpenOffice (file import > pdf via ocr). Not only could we edit it from there, but OpenOffice can export directly to pdf.

I don't think we should add this to evince, because evince is a nice "light" pdf reader, and should stay that way. OpenOffice on the other hand is an office suite which already exports to pdf.

I think it would be more useful to have this in OpenOffice (file import > pdf via ocr). Not only could we edit it from there, but OpenOffice can export directly to pdf. I don't think we should add this to evince, because evince is a nice "light" pdf reader, and should stay that way. OpenOffice on the other hand is an office suite which already exports to pdf.

Written by oliver-joos the 31 Mar 09 at 15:27.

Try the latest gscan2pdf (>= 0.9.27). It has a Gnome GUI and is nice to scan and reorder multi-paged documents. For OCR it uses Tesseract or GOCR (try 300dpi and Tesseract).

To further improve recognition on grey/old paper or with coloured text I tweaked it a bit: gscan2pdf uses "unpaper" to clean text-pages before OCR, which IMHO does not lower error rate significantly. I replaced "unpaper" with a script that calls "convert" from "imagemagick" mainly to "-contrast-stretch", with impressive results!

What you cannot do with gscan2pdf is OCR of pages with complex layout. (multiple columns, tables, ect.)

Try the latest gscan2pdf (>= 0.9.27). It has a Gnome GUI and is nice to scan and reorder multi-paged documents. For OCR it uses Tesseract or GOCR (try 300dpi and Tesseract). To further improve recognition on grey/old paper or with coloured text I tweaked it a bit: gscan2pdf uses "unpaper" to clean text-pages before OCR, which IMHO does not lower error rate significantly. I replaced "unpaper" with a script that calls "convert" from "imagemagick" mainly to "-contrast-stretch", with impressive results! What you cannot do with gscan2pdf is OCR of pages with complex layout. (multiple columns, tables, ect.)

Written by JuliusH the 9 Apr 09 at 01:46.

develop a gui for Ocropus and make it the default ocr-app for ubuntu

develop a gui for Ocropus and make it the default ocr-app for ubuntu

Written by vhindriksen the 9 Sep 09 at 16:44.

See the comments how to get it. It should get fixed for Ubuntu and get into the repositories, just like solution 3 and 4. No defaults, just choices.

See the comments how to get it. It should get fixed for Ubuntu and get into the repositories, just like solution 3 and 4. No defaults, just choices.

Written by xfuser4 the 17 Oct 09 at 09:16.

It should not be too hard, to extend libpoppler, so it can manipulate the content of PDF forms. For PDF files that are signed, it could store the form content in a separate file.

Changing libpoppler would provide this feature in Evince and Okular (and many other programs).

It should not be too hard, to extend libpoppler, so it can manipulate the content of PDF forms. For PDF files that are signed, it could store the form content in a separate file. Changing libpoppler would provide this feature in Evince and Okular (and many other programs).

Written by sinanaykut the 16 Dec 08 at 19:21.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #16549 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #16549 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by kramer65 the 19 Aug 08 at 07:44.

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Written by nelson.blaha the 8 Sep 08 at 01:16.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #12917 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #12917 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by futurenow123 the 12 Aug 09 at 20:25.

Evince needs to be changed to allow for continuous down and continuous sideways viewing of the pages ; Which themselves will not need to be rotated . Just as illustrated :

|---------| |---------|
|---------| |---------|
| text | ===>> | text |
|---------| |---------|
|---------| |---------|

the pages are as they are now, but they flow continuously from left to right, if you tick the right setting .

Evince needs to be changed to allow for continuous down and continuous sideways viewing of the pages ; Which themselves will not need to be rotated . Just as illustrated : |---------| |---------| |---------| |---------| | text | ===>> | text | |---------| |---------| |---------| |---------| the pages are as they are now, but they flow continuously from left to right, if you tick the right setting .

Written by Ssdg the 12 Aug 09 at 20:40.

#1 is a good idea, but I think this should stay an option.
So let's keep the default evince behavior and offer this feature to people who switch it on.

#1 is a good idea, but I think this should stay an option. So let's keep the default evince behavior and offer this feature to people who switch it on.