Re: [evince] Idea: reading ruler

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

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> De: Marvin Raaijmakers <marvin nospam gmail com>
> Para: evince-list gnome org
> CC: 
> Enviado: sábado 24 de septiembre de 2011 17:13
> Asunto: [evince] Idea: reading ruler
> 
> Some people are experiencing trouble when reading from their computer
> screen. From the computer screen they easily skip lines or half way a
> line of text they continue reading at another line. It could be that
> people suffering from dyslexia are more likely to have these problems,
> but I am not sure about this. Anyway, I think a simple feature can be
> added to the PDF reader to help these people: a reading ruler. A
> reading ruler is a horizontal line that is being rendered over the PDF
> page. The vertical position of the line can be controlled by the
> position of the mouse pointer.
> Below you can see different mockups that I made.
> In the first mockup there is only a line below the line of text the
> user is reading.
> In the second mockup there is a partially transparent overlay below
> the ruler. The idea behind the overlay is that the text that the user
> did not read yet is less visible and therefore less distracting for
> the user. The overlay is partially transparent to make sure that the
> text below it is not completely hidden, so the user still has an
> overview of the contents of the rest of the page.
> In the third mockup there is also and overlay, but it becomes
> gradually more transparent in the lower region below the ruler. The
> reason for using a gradient is that we only need to hide the space
> below the ruler that is close to the ruler, because when reading the
> eyes are focused on this region.
> 
> To see the mockups go to: http://oss-ideas.marvin-r.com/


Hi Marvin !

There is an open bug for this [1]. AFAIK, It hasn't been implemented 
yet due to the lack on manpower.

Feel free to add your mockups in this bug report. This can help 
developers.

Thank  you for suporting Evince,

  -- Juanjo Marin

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602565