Re: evince -2.32 new features

[Pablo Rodríguez <oinos web de>]

On 10/07/2010 07:20 PM, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> Excerpts from Pablo Rodríguez's message of jue oct 07 16:02:37 +0200 2010:
> > Zooming cannot be higher than 400% (which is the maximum in version 2.30).
>
> Well, it depends on the document, now the pixbuf cache is dynamic,
> so the maximum zoom level depends on the page size. For example, with
> this document[1] where the page size is really small, you can zoom up to
> 6400%. Maybe we could increase the cache size so that for documents
> with usual page sizes like letter or A4 you can get higher zoom
> levels.

Thanks for your reply, Carlos.

I guess that heading to a proper implementation in poppler would be the 
right way to go.

> > There is no way to add annotations to PDF documents.
>
> You need a newer poppler, 0.15.x

Ok, then it would be better to explain that adding annotations requires 
poppler unstable in 
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.32/#rnusers.evince.

> > I have already reported this before:
> > http://www.archive.org/download/LaTransformacinDelConceptoDeReflexinDeKantAHegel.ElTrnsitoDel/TesisRosa-B5-Uni.pdf
> > contains an annotation on the first page. It is open, but somehow evince
> > doesn't display it (acroread displays it fine).
>
> I can see the annot, but not the popup window, I don't know why,
> though. The annot is not clickable because the area is empty, see how
> the annot rectangle is defined:
>
> /Rect [ 66.663 622.572 66.663 622.572 ] /Subtype /Text /Type /Annot
>
> this means x1 = x2 and y1 = y2.

Ok, PDF document is faulty, but acroread displays it (acroread-9.4 
doesn't even warn about this).

I guess that evince/poppler should display this annotation also.

Thanks for your help,


Pablo