Re: [+gnome] Re: selecting pages in evince

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 16:53, Paul Sheridan <paul sheridan ucd ie> wrote:
> Hi Wouter
> Thanks for the swift reply. I am aware of these features in the print
> dialogue. However if the desired pages are rather scattered throughout the
> document this can get very messy in the 'print range' box. The other idea
> was simpler and more accessible. It seems a pity to have lost functionality.
> I do appreciate it's limited usefulness, though I find my self wishing I had
> it quite often.

I like simple UIs (and code!) and also suffer when nice-to-have
features menace making the main use cases less straightforward by the
addition of UI controls, etc.

One crazy suggestion maybe worth considering could be keeping evince
focused on main use cases like basic document viewing, printing, etc
and then building separate tools for more advanced use cases.

In this case, I can envision a PDF editing (though not authoring) tool
that allowed to reorder pages, select a bunch and then export or print
them, etc. Such an app would interface with poppler for doc
manipulation and would embed the EvView widget for previewing.

Does this make sense to someone else?

Regards,

Tomeu

> Kind Regards
> Paul
>
> Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
>
> 2009-01-19 klockan 20:27 skrev Paul Sheridan:
>
>
> I used to use gpdf and ggv a number of years back and now understand
> that evince has replace these. One of my favourite features of gpdf was
> the ability to select a page (with a tick mark) and also to invert the
> selection later on. This does not see to be a feature in evince. Have
> you comments on that, plans to include it or do I have the wrong idea?
>
>
> The ability to "select pages" is not of much use. I vaguely remember that
> (in gpdf), this was only used to select which pages you wanted to print. If
> you want to selectively print pages in Evince, you should use the print
> dialog (which is the logical place for such things), and choose which pages
> you want to print. To print a single page, one can just navigate to that
> page, open the print dialog, and select "print current page". If one wants
> to print all pages except (for example) pages 4 and 5, one opens the print
> dialog, and types   1-3,6-  in the "print range" input field.
>
> Hope this helps, and thanks for using Evince.
>
>     — Wouter
>
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