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Bug 638724 - split-screen view of multiple places in a document
split-screen view of multiple places in a document
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 409179
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-05 09:22 UTC by Mark Edgington
Modified: 2015-11-29 18:15 UTC
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Description Mark Edgington 2011-01-05 09:22:24 UTC 
There should be a way of splitting an evince window vertically and horizontally, and being able to scroll independently through the document in each of the "splits" (i.e. separate view-panes in the window).
Comment 1 bli 2014-10-03 15:46:15 UTC 
Same problem for me.

It would be convenient to be able to split the view of a document in several sub-windows for instance when reading text while keeping an eye on a figure or on the bibliography of an article.

For the record, this feature exists in at least a pdf viewer I know of: apvlv
(http://naihe2010.github.io/apvlv/)
Comment 2 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2014-10-03 17:20:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Same problem for me.
> 
> It would be convenient to be able to split the view of a document in several
> sub-windows for instance when reading text while keeping an eye on a figure or
> on the bibliography of an article.

In Evince you can have two windows of the same document, you only need to
"Open a copy" or press Ctrl+N.  I use it regularly, with half screen with
one document, and the other half with another part of the same document.

Whether Evince is going to support a split view on the same window is up to the maintainers, or if somebody is willing to work on a patch on it and the maintainer would be happy with it.
Comment 3 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2015-11-29 18:15:20 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 409179 ***