I'm usually listening to music and reading from a pdf book on my laptop, it's really annoying when I use the media keys (play/pause) to control my music player that evince thinks I'm starting a presentation and runs in fullscreen. I don't like that. I don't think it's that common a function that it should be assigned a keyboard shortcut. Please provide a way to disable that. Or better yet, disable it by default.

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

When PDFs have stuff over the printable borders, you can shrink pages, but it does not center the shrunken page. This means that anything above the top printing margin and anything to the left of the left printing margin is not printed.

I'd like to extract images out of PDF files, in their original quality and resolution, using Evince.

Often I print 6 pages on one real page with evince. Sometimes I have to print just one page and forget to set the print settings back to 1 page per page.
It would be cool, if this set automatically back to 1 if you just print one page.

Sometimes I need a concatenation of pdf-documents, i.e. when I'm writing a letter of application I would like to add other documents such as resume and testimonials. When I'm broswing manuals in different languages I only need the excerpt of my first language. There is a nice little cli-app that can do the job (and more) called pdftk[1], which I use for these task normally.

[1] http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

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.

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.

I don't imagine that it would be bloat to include "split" and "merge" options in the right-click menu for pdf files. PDF isn't going away anytime soon, and this would be an edge for Ubuntu. Someone has already done most of the work, all that's left is for it to be implemented into the default distro:

http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28160/How_to_combine_and_separate_pd f_files_on_Ubuntu

When a new user goes and installs a program, he doesn't have a clue that there is a special folder for program documentation, that there are man pages and that all the programs install these things there.

There should be a system to let the users know that the program installed documentation files, where they are installed and offer the user an easy way to reach and view them.