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Idea #25329: finger touch in evince

Written by tarjxvf the 8 Jul 10 at 02:28. Related project: Evince Document Viewer. Status: New
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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.
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Solution #1: Borrow ideas from WinDjview and Amazon Kindle
Written by tarjxvf the 8 Jul 10 at 02:28.
As tablet is becoming more and more common, I think it would be nice if Evince can support navigating through the document using fingers.

We should be able to drag the page up or down using fingers. The flipping should be smooth and easily controllable. A good example is WinDjview, using fingers in WinDjview is really enjoyable. A bad example is Adobe Acroread: sometimes one tiny movement of the finger flips 3-4 pages, and seems uncontrollable. An even better example is Amazon Kindle PC version. The exclusive finger touch bar at left, right and bottom make it a really nice experience reading in the slate mode.


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