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Idea #15930: Evince to show more than two pages side by side

bug This entry was marked as not being an idea the 30 September 11. If this is a bug report, please use the Ubuntu bug tracker.
Written by karoliina.t.salminen the 24 Nov 08 at 12:25. Related project: Evince Document Viewer. Status: Not an idea
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Background:
I have 30 inch monitor (2560 x 1600 resolution) and I would like to see more than 2 pages in Evince at a time side by side to better utilize the screen space (I have tested 3 is very well readable with 2560 horizontal resolution, and 4 would be useful for finding a page of interest more quickly). I often print the documents on paper because I can't read them conveniently enough on the screen. With a little improvement in Evince I could maybe have a more paperless office.

How to do that:
Evince should have more flexible zoom behavior:
with CTRL pressed and rotating the mouse wheel, the Evince zooms as expected. However, it does not utilize the extra space but only makes the pages smaller when zoomed out despite there would be space on the screen for additional columns of pages. Now the zoom should behave in a bit more intelligent way and add more columns when there is enough space on the window to fit more columns into it.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #15930
Written by karoliina.t.salminen the 24 Nov 08 at 12:25.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #15930 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!

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zooounds wrote on the 24 Nov 08 at 14:50
Sorry, but you or in the top 0.1% here when it comes to screen. I have an 1600x1200 and would never like to have more than 2 pages wide.

Eldmannen wrote on the 24 Nov 08 at 15:15
But two pages is an open book!

andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 25 Nov 08 at 10:10
Um, the Adobe PDF reader does this, I believe. It is useful for those who have big screens, even if it isn't for those who don't.

Why not.

+1

cslotty wrote on the 25 Mar 10 at 07:56
I was about to file an idea myself about this - but I think it is better to concentrate votes... ;-)

So what I was thinking about is a possibility to even spread pages of a document freely on a screen! This is simply the same behaviour you can "implement" by printing the document and then using your real desk... ;o)

But as printing wastes paper, this is not my preferred option.

It would be a real "revolution" and ahead of all other PDF readers (namely Adobe Reader) if evince would implement features that bring real world behaviour to a persons PC.

(Which includes drawing and marking of text, of course.)

cslotty wrote on the 25 Mar 10 at 07:57
Additional comment: I don't think this could be solved simply by using the zoom within evince. I think this should be solved by some - maybe undecorated - extra window for each page.

Vahan Harutyunyan (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 30 Sep 11 at 11:20
Please file Wishlist Bug report against Evince for this issue or direct your suggestion to the Evince team http://projects.gnome.org/evince/

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