Your message dated Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:04:50 -0400
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line re: xpdf: When page-up/page-down mark limits of previously seen
has caused the Debian Bug report #463707,
regarding xpdf: When page-up/page-down mark limits of previously seen text
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected]
immediately.)
--
463707: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463707
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Package: xpdf-reader
Version: 3.02-1.3
Severity: wishlist
This is a usability issue.
When I'm reading text in xpdf, often one page does not quite fit
on my screen. So, when I push page-down the first time,
it switches to the bottom of the page, then the next page-down
switches document pages.
Now, on the page-down presses that do NOT change the document page,
it's easy to loose track of where your eyes were in the document.
For instance, on my current system, the viewing window shifts downward
7 lines, so you have to shift your eyes up 7 lines.
Needless to say, counting up is inconvenient and slows down the reading
process. In some documents, there are obvious landmarks (i.e. images,
or odd-shaped blocks of text), but in other documents it may not
be easy. For instance on pages that are nearly solid text without
blatant paragraph breaks, I frequently lose track, and need
to search to find the point where I was reading.
Any time you lose track, it can take several seconds to find your place
again, which slows down the process of reading dramatically.
Here's what I'd suggest:
Whenever page-up/down does NOT cause a change of the document page,
put up a temporary mark to show where the visible area used to end.
I'd suggest drawing a dashed or grey line across the image and
leaving it on the screen for about 1 second.
Readers would then rapidly learn that the temporary mark tells them
where their eyes used to be. Then, readers would automatically move
their eyes to the mark and continue reading.
Reading in xpdf would be much faster and less annoying.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xpdf depends on:
ii xpdf-common 3.02-1.3 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii xpdf-reader 3.02-1.3 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii xpdf-utils 3.02-1.3 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
xpdf recommends no packages.
Versions of packages xpdf-reader depends on:
ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre43-2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii lesstif2 1:0.95.0-2.1 OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation relea
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpaper1 1.1.23 library for handling paper charact
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.3-20080116-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.1.1-5 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxp6 1:1.0.0.xsf1-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xpdf-common 3.02-1.3 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
text
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta3 (GTK+ 2.24.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Contious mode addresses this need.
--- End Message ---
