Evince doesn't respect user-preferences when the document paper-size is large
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evince (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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/
Please consider
a) keeping my selected preferences (=the window size when I selected <ctrl+T>, meaning
use-
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-
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Best,
Norman
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.