Here's a fundamental mismatch between paper .pdfs and on-screen .pdfs: The aspect ratio of paper is taller, where screens are wider, and columned text forces the on-screen version to either shrink the text (which also wastes the sides of the screen) or to scroll backward for each column.
Has anyone come up with a solution for this? One would be to allow the user to repeat each page times N columns. What do you all think of such a feature? It could be a fairly buried feature to avoid distracting users who don't need it (such as putting it below the "View" menu options, titled something like, "Repeat pages...", which could bring up a dialogue explaining why it is useful and have an input box for the number of repeats). Or, it could even be further buried behind a command-line option. One quick problem is the page numbers. I lean towards just letting them get multiplied along with the artificial repetitions, but if someone else felt that they should reflect the original document then I would not disagree. Or maybe the idea is crazy. If it is too much so, I suppose I will just write a ruby+pdftk script to burst columnar pdfs apart and cat them back in multiples. Any feedback is welcome. -rking _______________________________________________ Evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
