Public bug reported:

Hi,

I just got a huge technical documentation from work, it weights 600MB and is 
divided into many chapters and sections. But instead of being a single huge PDF 
file, it is split in many individual (1,075) smaller PDF files, one for each 
section and sub-section. In the index when you click on a chapter, it 
automatically loads the appropriate PDF file and displays it in the same 
window. So, to the user, it is completely transparent and behaves as though it 
were a single huge PDF file rather than a multitude of smaller PDF's.
Along side the PDF files, there is a special folder named "index", which 
contains 9 sub-folders, around 35 files in all, weighting around 10MB. I assume 
it contains all the data to help the PDF viewer organise everything as required.

The problem I have with Evince is that every time I click in the index
to jump to a different section, it opens the corresponding PDF file in a
new window instead of loading it in the original window. This makes
navigating very painful, and breaks the intended integrity of the
document.

I am hoping it is fairly easy to fix ? If not, you may contact the
developers of "Okular", it is KDE's document viewver, Evince's KDE
counterpart. I tried to open my document with half a dozen different PDF
viewer, and Okular was the only one that behaved as expected/intended.

I would rather use Evince though (being a long time Gnome addict)...

The document being rather confidential, I am unfortunately unable to
upload it, so if you need to try things out, please tell me what to do
and I will execute ! ;-)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 21 12:19:56 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline_: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic 
root=UUID=12dd963e-65ed-44cc-afc8-48baf4a7f88e ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug apport-lpi i386 natty

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