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.

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.

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.

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.... :-)

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.

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

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

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 .

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.

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

Even if evince is one of the best PDF-Viewer I have evver seen, it is not useful for presentation.