GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 124071
Continuous page viewing
Last modified: 2005-11-13 13:41:17 UTC
It would be nice if gpdf could display the pages of a PDF continuously, so you can scroll through the entire PDF document using just, say, the scrollbar. Instead of having to click Prev/Next to switch to different pages, it would be continuously viewable, much like a web page with visible page breaks, like many word processors.
Continuous page viewing not only increases the ease of navigating through a document as mentioned previously, it also facilitates the reading of a document. Most of the PDF documents that I view are meant to be read from one page to the next. With gdf, you can not have the bottom of one page and the top of the following page viewable at the same time. This is a significant impediment to viewing technical documents and is the primary reason I have to use Acroread instead of gpdf (the only other reason is the inability to view some PDF files in gpdf as reported in amny other bug reports). I love the seamless integration of gpdf into Gnome and eagerly await this enhancement to be implemented.
I, too, would like to see continuous page viewing implemented.
It's not clear here what "continious page viewing" means. I preseume page 2 shows up at the bottom of page 1, as if they're all arranged in a continuous scroll? (This is done in acroread, but not in xpdf.) If this is what's meant, than this organization of pages is independent of whether or not spacebar scrolls through the whole document. Proof of concept: in xpdf, spacebar scrolls down in the same page if we're not at the bottom of the page, or goes to the top of the next page if we are at the bottom of the page. See also bug #125043.
*** Bug 163990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Continuous page viewing + wheel mouse is a good combination, as it's just so easy to scroll through the whole document then. I for one prefer the wheel over arrow keys or spacebar. But why doesn't gpdf support such a thing? I would create a patch myself, but I have no programming experience under linux..
I was about to report this as a new bug, but continuous page viewing (like acroread has) is such a handy feature that I figured other people had probably already requested it. And here they are! I guess the most useful thing I can do is add another vote to the statistics. Continuous page viewing is critical to my ability to view multipage documents without becoming very frustrated with the interface. In a PDF viewer, it is more important to me than the ability to print. I would really appreciate this feature in gpdf.
*** Bug 169108 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 303591 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Closing WONTFIX. GPdf is no longer maintained. Please use evince for your pdf viewing needs. http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince Evince has nice support for continuous scrolling.