On 07/21/2015 03:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to switch from acroread to evince, bit it has a few serious > usability problems for me: > > 1) You can't copy/paste text from evince _at_all_. At least it works > right most of the time with acroread. I really like being able > paste example commands or bits of code or a sentance or three from > PDF docs into a shell or editor window. Pasting tables is a bit > more work, but it can at least be done with acroread. > > 2) You can't print the current view. I find that invaluable for > printing portions of documents (e.g. I want just a section of a C > size schematic printed on letter sized paper, or just one table > table from a manual sized to fill a 8.5x11 page). If it did have > 'print view' then lack of a marquee zoom would become another > inconvenience. > > 3) There's no way to collapse-all in the TOC panel. When I open a > 1200 page document with 30 sections and several hundred sections > and subsections, I don't want to see all of them all of the time. > Closing them one at a time by hand is pretty tedious. > > I find that about 20-30% of the time I start up evince, I end up > closing it and re-opening the document in acroread.
Sounds like Evince has really gone down hill since I last used Gnome. I use Atril on Mate desktop and it works as well as Evince ever used to for me, which is expected seeing as it was forked from Gnome 2 sources. I have never had any problems cutting and pasting text. And you can definitely close the TOC panel. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see that Evince has lost capabilities. Seems to be the way Gnome apps are going these days. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
