GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 147869
[UI-Review] Umbrella Bug
Last modified: 2006-01-30 00:16:37 UTC
This is the bug representing the ui-review of the gpdf for the 2.7/2.8 release of GNOME
Summary of discussion: General Page fit are application level settings that are kept between uses Outline Page View if preview thumbnails exist: -size-view- auto-fit to the size that is remembered if no size, then make one column size elif auto-thumbnail is fast: # probably impossible to really detect goto -size-view- else: just have a textual list of pages, displaying headers if possible? Outline Page Navigation clicking on area of page takes the view to that area ( grabbing viewport and sliding it can be done if mouse button is held, but otherwise not necessary for nav ) current page remains in the center of view so that the next and previous pages are both in view ( does not go to edge of view unless it is the last or first slide ) ( previous and next pages are in sight and not offscreen ) Fullscreen View If outline view: hide outline view use preference of page fit for sizing hide 'Exit Fullscreen' button after a few seconds reapear on mouse movement, not keyboard event or mouse click Contains Previous Page / Next Page buttons right click menu popup shows - Next Page - Previous Page ---- - Zoom Controls
Created attachment 29639 [details] UI-Review IRC Chat Log
The following are observations that I meant to bring up at the UI review, but I didn't make it, so I'm just sticking them here. To be clear, these *haven't* been discussed or blessed by the UI review people. - The status bar is never used by the application. - There is no obvious way to get back to 100% zoom, or to find out what zoom level you are at. - There is no way to find the paper size for the PDF you're currently viewing. - In properties, what is the difference between creator and producer, and what does optimized mean? Why would a user want to know about creator, producer, PDF version or optimized?
Just came across this bug and I think I can clear up the creator vs. producer bit: Both are properties set by the application that created the PDF file. Browsing some of my PDFs with Acrobat Reader I found these examples: Creator: Microsoft Word Producer: Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Windows Creator: Adobe Illustrator Producer: Adobe PDF Library 4.0 Creator: LaTeX with hyperref and pdfscreen Producer: pdfTeX-0.14h Creator: n/a Producer: OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 Creator: n/a Producer: Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows) So, it seems as if the application exporting the PDF should set the "Creator" property. This application usually delegates this task to a library or tool which then sets the "Producer" property. Why a user would want to know about that is beyond me, but since these are standard PDF properties there might as well be a dialog to display them. Another thing: What about displaying the paper size in the status bar? That's how the Acrobat Reader does it on windows.
Closing this out now.