GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 511595
Allow to superpose (supposedly empty) right margin of left page and left margin of right page in Dual page viewing
Last modified: 2013-06-15 06:36:08 UTC
I appreciate the Dual mode in viewing documents, since it doubles the information seen. My screen is 1440 pixels width, good enough to display two pages in 12pt. But it the document is written in 10pt, reading in Dual is difficult (the characters are too small on screen). However, many documents have empty margins at left and right of each page. So, would it be possible to superpose 2cm of the right margin of the left page with 2cm of the left margin of the right page? In the previous example, this would allow to read even 10pt documents. How to best implement it, I do not yet know. Either manually (press "2cm" in an edit field) or visually (drag and drop mouse over margins). Visual example: ---------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------- ^--------^ Page 1 ^-------^ Page 2 Cheers, Eugen Dedu Other information:
Nice idea I think.
I agree: this would be a fantastic change. Many PDF documents have enormous margins which are great for printing, but completely unnecessary when viewing on-screen. When I view these documents on-screen, the font size is tiny, so I'm often forced to print them out; this wastes paper and time. I'd like to be able to crop off all the margins (top, bottom, left, right) when viewing in Evince, especially in Dual mode but also even in single-page mode.
I think this is basically a duplicate of bug 169676 ("A 'Fit' function that shows only the text on a page"). If we had that functionality, there'd be no need to superimpose margins in this way since we wouldn't display the margins at all.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 169676 ***