Re: Bookmark Feature

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

В Пнд, 11/07/2005 в 20:50 +0200, Patrick Ohnewein пишет:

> Hello!
> 
> First of all I have to make a big congratulation to the evince
> developers. It's the best PDF reader I ever used!
> 
> As a "contribution" I have a feature proposal. It's really more a
> request for enhencement than a contribution :)
> 
> One thing that's very disturbing me in reading digital documents is the
> lack of the possibility to mark a page. If I read a book or some other
> sort of printed document I can insert some bookmark and if I go on
> reading the next time I will easely find the point I stopped.
> 
> Would it be immaginable to have some bookmarking system in evince or
> maybe directly in gnome, that remembers the viewed *file location* and
> the *position* in it?
> 
> I immagine that pdf has some support for bookmarking. But I wouldn't
> relay on that, because it would be limited to writable PDFs and surely
> it wont have support for remembering the file location.
> 
> It would be very usefull to have one place in gnome or a menu in evince
> where I can find all bookmarks. Selecting a bookmark will open the
> corrisponding document and visualize the page I stopped reading the last
> time or better the position I bookmarked.
> 
> What do you think about it?
> 
> In the hope to inspire someone I wish you happy hacking!
> Patrick
> 

Hi Patric, thanks for nice proposal. It's definitely on our TODO list
and we are working on it. See the bug

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169903

Bryan even has cool mockups on that:

http://www.gnome.org/~clarkbw/images/evince-bookmarks.png


Of course, any contribution is welcome