Evince has 'memory' of initial view, makes testing new PDFs difficult

[John Pye]

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When creating PDFs with OpenOffice, I have a need to test them to make sure that when the PDF opens, it opens on the page I specified, and with the view optins I specified. Evince scotches my efforts at testing new PDFs because it remembers the last page/view configuration I used for that document, even if it has been overwritten in the meantime.

Can I suggest that if a PDF file has changed, Evince should 'forget' its view settings for that file, and reset them to the settings specified in the file itself.

Either that, or a new command-line option should be added telling Evince not to use its 'memory' for previously-seen file.

[John Pye (jdpipe)]

PS my comment relates to the Intrepid version of Evince, version 2.24.1.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

It needs the monitoring feature for that to work in the right way, if the documents change then evince will reload it and forgets the initial state as well, but that monitoring feature isn't implemented yet and tehre's a bug about that, bug 145637, marking this as a dup, thanks for reporting.