Re: [evince] proposed new feature: shrink window to fit page

[Juanjo Marin <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 00:09 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I like to view PDF documents with Evince at 100% or 150% or 200% 
> magnification.  I generally don't want the magnification to match whatever 
> window size I happen to get.
> 
> This leaves parts of the window unused: to page is smaller than the
> window (I have a large screen).
> 
> I would really like a command that resized the window to be exactly
> the size needed to hold the current page.
> 
> Does this feature seem useful to others?
> 
> Does this feature seem easy to implement?
> 
> Does this feature violate any principles of Evince?
> 
> (I think feature requests are supposed to go in Bugzilla but I'm such
> a newbie here that I'd like feedback before I clutter up the bug
> database.)


Hugh,

Evince has the option "Fit Page width" that I think you can use to
resize the document to fit the window. 

There is an open bug [1] report for trimming the margins to get rid of
the lateral blank space.

Hope this helps,

  -- Juanjo Marin


[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169676