Re: Evince as universal "Viewer"

[Thom Holwerda <slakje quicknet nl>]

As a proponent, let me show you in brief how Apple's "Preview" handles 
images and pdf's.

First, a shot of Preview showing a number of images:

http://img144.echo.cx/img144/4786/shotimage9zt.png

As you can see, the "rotate" functions, important to image viewers, are 
in the View menu with easy to remember shortcuts. Note also that when 
you rotate an image, you can then save it so that it retains the 
rotated position.

Second, a shot of Preview showing a pdf file:

http://img144.echo.cx/img144/8307/shotpdf0jn.png

It looks the same, with two differences:  1) if you look in the 
top-right of the main window, you'll see that an extra icon appeared in 
the "Tool Mode" section, the letter "A". When in "A" mode, you can 
select and copy text (the other two toolmodes are a 4-sided arrow for 
moving the image and a square for selection tool) and 2) a "search" box 
whcih lets you do find-as-you-type.

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For the rest, both screenshots show the same content. A drawer with 
thumbnails, that one can hide and scroll through. It also has back 
forward buttons.

I'm not trying to say that Preview is perfect or anything; I'm just 
trying to show to people that merging pdf and image viewing 
functionality into one app doesn't need to be a disaster, or a slow 
app. Preview is actually very fast, and I'm only using a 1.07 Ghz 
256MBRAM iBook. By all means no speed demon.


Thom Holwerda
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