Re: [evince] How about split view

[Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org>]

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 18:24 -0500, Xingbo Wu wrote:
>   Hi folks I'm a many-year evince user and it has been very exciting
> for me
> to see the excellent improvements on this elegant software. I'd like
> to
> propose a promising feature that I have been wanting for years--split
> view.
>
>  The split view mode provided in Excel software and some others could
> be
> very helpful when you need to frequently take a glance at the
> reference
> section of a research paper or other documents in that fashion. One
> thing
> that I need to mention here is that currently a same document cannot
> be
> opened twice at the same time. So in practice I cannot just open two
> windows and put one at the main paragraphs and the other at the
> reference

It is possible to open the same document twice. Chose "Open a copy" or
press Ctrl+N to open a new window with the same document.

Having them side by side, or whatever, you can can get the same results
than split-view. Anyhow, the bug report is here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638724

-- 
Germán Poo-Caamaño
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