Re: [evince] New behaviour of "open a copy"

[Rob Sargent <robjsargent gmail com>]

Hmm.  Anyone up for "Open a Duplicate"?

On 08/11/2011 01:40 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> Excerpts from Rob Sargent's message of mié ago 10 20:17:21 +0200 2011:
>> I'm using GNOME Document Viewer 2.32.0.  Prior to updating to this rev
>> (from which rev I'm not sure, sorry) I could use File:Open-a-Copy to get
>> a new window with somefile-0.pdf in the window banner.  When I loaded a
>> new version of somefile.pdf, the somefile-0.pdf would retain the
>> original version.  Now Open-a-copy makes a new window with same banner
>> (somefile.pdf, no "-0") and is also updated when I make a new version of
>> the pdf.  I used the old feature extensively for comparison purposes. 
>> (I would overlay the two versions to detect minor layout differences,
>> relying on opacity to see both directly over top of each other).
> In previous versions we used a symlink, that's why we needed a
> different filename, so that a new document object was created for the
> new file (the symlink) that was never notified about modifications
> (because the symlink itself never changed). Now we simply create a new
> window with the same document object, since the document is shared,
> both windows are notified when the document changes. Maybe the name
> 'open a copy' is confusing now, since it's not a copy at all, is just
> another view for the same document. 
>
>> Is there any work-around to get the old behaviour back?  Any clue as to
>> which (latest) old version I could re-install?
>>
> The only I think I can think of is that you create the symlink
> yourself and open another evince instance for the it.
>
> Regards,