Evince back and forward buttons does not keep last position when scrolling

Bug #1384389 reported by positivek
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evince
Expired
Medium
evince (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Scrolling in Evince does not seem to set the "last" location when using internal hyperlinks and Backward and Forward buttons.

1. Scroll to a place in the document where there is an internal link / hyperlink that links to another place in the document.

2. Click the internal link to go to another part of document.

3. Click "Back" button to try to get back to my original scrolled position.

4. BUG: I am taken somewhere else in the document instead of the location of where I clicked the hyperlink.

See the attached demonstration PDF which has 4 test cases. Test cases 2 and 4 apply to this bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Oct 22 11:43:26 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-25 (180 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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positivek (anonyhole) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in evince:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in evince:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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Konstantinos (konstant) wrote :

I have the same problem

GNOME Document Viewer 3.28.4
Linux kna5 4.15.0-58-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 6 11:12:41 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

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