I had thought about this as well.  I'm not sure if this is what you're talking
about, but I had hoped Evince could remember the state information based on the
document you're viewing.  So if you had the window sized a certain way for a
certain document it would open that document in the same way the next time.

I think that for me it would be more important to have the default window size
"remembered" -- currently one is forced to resize the window to comfortable
dimensions every single time one opens a new document.  It gets annoying very
quickly when you're going through pdf's from google and friends.

Remembering the window state per document would complement spatial nautilus, though.

Wasn't metacity supposed to take care of this?

Actually, it would be nice to implement something like spatial interface. So 
let me mark this bug s duplicate of

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168285 ***

I think this bug needs to be reopened. The analogy with spatialus seems
completely spurious.

  - Folders
      - Are frequently kept for a long time after being created
      - Are almost NEVER created, used once, and then immediately deleted
      - Come in all different shapes and sizes, but have content which
        does not change its size/comprehensibility with the window size

  - PDFs
      - Are frequently downloaded off the net, viewed once, and then
        either printed or thrown away
      - Are rarely consulted very frequently over a long period of time
      - Are very frequently US Letter-, A4-, or 1024x768-sized, and
        usually have text which is intended to be easily readable at
        100% magnification (regardless of the size of the page), but
        which may be unreadable if shown at lower magnifications

Remembering per-document settings would only very rarely be useful for me,
whereas remembering a default window size/magnification would almost always
DTRT.

Dan:

>Are frequently downloaded off the net, viewed once, and then
>either printed or thrown away 

This statement is _not_ true. Think about it, many people consult with documents
very often, for example, I use C# O'Reily book or PDF Reference. That kind of
problem should be solved by storage of window size per-document. 

But we agree with your point of view, that is why we have
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168450 I think you are interested in
it instead. Probably, we can remember initial window size also.

Up to Bryan to reopen this bug...

Nah, bug 168450 is fine. I missed it when I was looking through bugs before.