Evince doesn't respect user-preferences when the document paper-size is large

[Norman Hendrich]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.