Re: Evince for better ebook-reading experience



2008-01-11 klockan 12:38 skrev Roderich Schupp:
> On Jan 10, 2008 12:39 PM, András Soltész <soltesz andras gmail com> wrote:
> > - A setting that would make paging without displaying the same text twice.
> > When this is activated, only full lines would appear on the screen (no half
> > lines at the bottom) and when the user pushes PgDn Evince would show only
> > from the line which was not seen previously. This is very important for
> > continuous reading because with the current PgDn method (overlapping) it is
> > very tiresome to find the line you were reading after you pushed PgDn. If
> > the next view starts with only the yet read line, you don't need to find
> > anything, you can be sure that what you see at the top of the screen is the
> > next line you want to read.
> 
> The classic Postscript/PDF vewer gv (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gv)
> had an interesting feature (search for scrollingEyeGuide in the docs):
> 
>   ...scrolling via the keyboard causes a  temporary border to be drawn
>     around the previously visible area of  the page
> 
> The "border" normally boils down to a line showing where the lower edge
> (when scrolling down) of the previous visible area was, visible for about
> 1 second after the scroll. Worked nicely for me to show where to focus
> to continue reading.

You might be interested in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170871
which is about exactly the feature you're describing (even fancier)... ;)

  mvrgr, Wouter

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