Hmm. Anyone up for "Open a Duplicate"?
On 08/11/2011 01:40 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote: > Excerpts from Rob Sargent's message of mié ago 10 20:17:21 +0200 2011: >> I'm using GNOME Document Viewer 2.32.0. Prior to updating to this rev >> (from which rev I'm not sure, sorry) I could use File:Open-a-Copy to get >> a new window with somefile-0.pdf in the window banner. When I loaded a >> new version of somefile.pdf, the somefile-0.pdf would retain the >> original version. Now Open-a-copy makes a new window with same banner >> (somefile.pdf, no "-0") and is also updated when I make a new version of >> the pdf. I used the old feature extensively for comparison purposes. >> (I would overlay the two versions to detect minor layout differences, >> relying on opacity to see both directly over top of each other). > In previous versions we used a symlink, that's why we needed a > different filename, so that a new document object was created for the > new file (the symlink) that was never notified about modifications > (because the symlink itself never changed). Now we simply create a new > window with the same document object, since the document is shared, > both windows are notified when the document changes. Maybe the name > 'open a copy' is confusing now, since it's not a copy at all, is just > another view for the same document. > >> Is there any work-around to get the old behaviour back? Any clue as to >> which (latest) old version I could re-install? >> > The only I think I can think of is that you create the symlink > yourself and open another evince instance for the it. > > Regards, _______________________________________________ evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
