Inserting page number directly immediately jump back to old page

[johanseland]

Binary package hint: evince

When I type in a page number in Evince, it jumps to the right page, but the immediately jumps back to the one I was currently viewing.

This does not happen all the time, and the behavior can change within an Evince session.

Version is: Evince Document Viewer 2.20.1, Using poppler 0.6.2 (cairo)
(On Stock Ubuntu 7.10).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Dec 17 10:26:41 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evince topofix.pdf
ProcCwd: /home/johans/phd/papers/gpurefine/doc
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/work/bin:/home/johans/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux snowflake 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, can you attach the pdf you're seeing? Are you using Visual Effects (compiz) ? Does it happens without them? thanks.

[johanseland (johan-seland)]

Thanks for the quick reply!

It happens for example with the PGF 1.18 manual (attached).

I am seeing this both with and without compiz.

A little more experiments indicate that it might have something to do with searching for text inside the pdf. It seems as if a search "locks" a page, even if the search "menu bar" has disappeared. When it "locks" I can not use Previous/Next either.

So the bug is probably more about having a visual cue that a search is still in progress.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Don't see the problem here, can you tell us a few steps in order to trigger the bug? thanks you again.

[johanseland (johan-seland)]

Okay, I'll try.

Open up the document (you should now be at page 1).
Ctrl-F, search for e. g. ellipse (this should take you to page 6)
Move the mouse cursor to the page number field and write e. g. 97.
Page 97 will now blink, before moving back to page 6.

If I now clear the search field (Ctrl-F, BS to delete text), I can jump to page 97.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks, that works fine in my desktop running Hardy, i'm not redirected to the page 6, to be confirmed by someone else getting the issue, thanks you.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

[artsci2 (artsci2)]

Heere is the PDF I have on my desktop that refuses to take the direct page input.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

I'm unable to reproduce this behaviour, even with the new pdf file...