Wrong view when viewing a right-to-left document

[Amir Khosroshahi]

Binary package hint: evince

Right-to-left documents are set to a wrong view when they are opened and when you navigate to another page. That is, the horizontal scroll bar is put at the very left and the left part of the document is show-- which is suitable only for left-to-right documents. So, this default behavior should be corrected for RTL documents. The necessity to scroll to right every time you go to another page is really annoying.

To reproduce the bug, make a document in Open Office Writer in a right-to-left language (like Persian) and make a PDF file from it. Open the file in Evince and you will see the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 13 18:46:53 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: hsfengine fglrx
Package: evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Nicolas Quenouille (nicoz)]

 Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543164

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Setting status to traiged and importance to low for Nicolas.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Official support for Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" has ended. If this issue is still occurring in Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" please run ubuntu-bug to file a new bug report so that we can get a fresh set of log files an system info.