Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/909394
Title:
Evince doesn't respect user-preferences when the document paper-size
is large
Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Hi guys,
this one should be easy to fix. On Ubuntu, evince is the default previewer
for PDFs, and as such it is also used to preview "posters", meaning documents
with paper-size DIN-A1, DIN-A0, or similar, and up.
Evince Info says 2.32.0, this is on Ubuntu/natty.
For poster-sized documents, evince ALWAYS comes up in the largest
possible size, meaning filling the complete width of my full-HD
monitor, and EVEN full-height, meaning that the evince window hides
(or is hidden) beneath my XFCE task-bar.
This is wrong, because:
1) I previously set my preferred window size in evince, and I expect it to
respect this setting,
2) full-width is crazy for A*-sized portrait formats,
3) full-width hides a lot of my other windows, showing only blank pixels,
4) the window-height is full screen-height, overlapping the task-bar,
5) the original documents is still scaled-down anyway.
6) the user has to resize the window
7) which is DIFFICULT, as the bottom-right window-resize corner is actually
BELOW the task-bar.
Perhaps you never tested with large (=large paper-size) documents or posters?
Or did I mis-configure/uninstall something, and evince behaves better on
other systems?
Please consider
a) keeping my selected preferences (=the window size when I selected
<ctrl+T>, meaning
use-current-settings-as-future-defaults),
b) being smart and deciding that full-height (minus task-bar !!!) would be
good for portrait-sized
documents, should you prefer not to keep the user-preferences,
c) avoiding going full-screen (hiding the task-bar, hiding everything
else with just blank pixels).
An example DIN-A0 size portrait-orientation poster, created with
latex+sciposter:
http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/projects/handle/poster-segmentation.pdf
Best,
Norman
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