Comments on: Evince Project http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/12/16/evince-project/ Dedicated to the mathematical arts. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:08:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Greg Kuperberg http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/12/16/evince-project/#comment-57980 Greg Kuperberg Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:16:14 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/12/16/evince-project/#comment-57980 I like Evince too. However, at least my version (Ubuntu Feisty) plunges into a vegetative state if the underlying GS interpreter crashes. I have to close all Evince windows to revive it, not just the one running the bad Postscript. I like Evince too. However, at least my version (Ubuntu Feisty) plunges into a vegetative state if the underlying GS interpreter crashes. I have to close all Evince windows to revive it, not just the one running the bad Postscript.

]]> By: JJD http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/12/16/evince-project/#comment-57919 JJD Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:55:31 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/12/16/evince-project/#comment-57919 Yes, Evince is quite handy, and I have found Ubuntu to be a very satisfactory O/S for getting work done, with very few visits from Murphy. Be sure to use the Ubuntu updater. If you have trouble printing PDF documents from Evince, try using a printer driver other than the 'Postscript' one. For some reason, the Ubuntu developers have assigned a 'low' priority to fixing this bug. Yes, Evince is quite handy, and I have found Ubuntu to be a very satisfactory O/S for getting work done, with very few visits from Murphy. Be sure to use the Ubuntu updater.

If you have trouble printing PDF documents from Evince, try using a printer driver other than the ‘Postscript’ one. For some reason, the Ubuntu developers have assigned a ‘low’ priority to fixing this bug.

]]> By: dave tweed http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/12/16/evince-project/#comment-57917 dave tweed Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:33:44 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/12/16/evince-project/#comment-57917 The one real gripe I've got with evince (at least the version that comes with the linux distributions I've tried) is that if you're looking at a paper setup with large margins/multicolumn text and move the area your window views horizontally (typically after zooming in to make stuff readable), when you page-down to another pager the reader decides to reset the horizontal view to start at the left margin. This means that, particularly on mobile device screens, you're constantly moving horizontally. (Other viewers like xdvi seem to get that keeping the horizontal position on page change is a good idea.) There's a bug registered about this but it doesn't seem to be being noticed. Other than that, evince is quite a nice program. The one real gripe I’ve got with evince (at least the version that comes with the linux distributions I’ve tried) is that if you’re looking at a paper setup with large margins/multicolumn text and move the area your window views horizontally (typically after zooming in to make stuff readable), when you page-down to another pager the reader decides to reset the horizontal view to start at the left margin. This means that, particularly on mobile device screens, you’re constantly moving horizontally. (Other viewers like xdvi seem to get that keeping the horizontal position on page change is a good idea.)

There’s a bug registered about this but it doesn’t seem to be being noticed. Other than that, evince is quite a nice program.

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