Workaround: Test your settings in Evince:
$ gsettings get org.gnome.Evince page-cache-size Set a new (bigger) value instead: $ gsettings set org.gnome.Evince page-cache-size 100 I tried it with 256 as value and can zoom my documents till 200%. . Will this bug ever fixed in Precise and Trusty? It speaks for itself that this bug is in two LTS releases... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/721217 Title: Hardcoded Evince cache size limit restricts maximum zoom to 70% on large (area) documents Status in Evince document viewer: Fix Released Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: evince Evince restricts the maximum zoom level for large PDF documents. For example, with a document that is nominally: 2743 mm × 914 mm the only zoom levels given to the user are: 50% and 70% this means that the text is impossibly small, and hard to read. Ideally allow zoom level should be presented to the user, regardless of the theoretical paper size; which is completely hypothetical, because it's digital and just bits and bytes. It seems that Evince has a hardcoded cache size limit (in an effort to avoid hanging the user's machine). Ideally tiled rendering, or a more dynamic cache-size selecting algorithm should be used (on a machine with 3GB it makes no sense to limit to 100MB). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/721217/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp