On 2015-07-21, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/21/2015 03:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm trying to switch from acroread to evince, bit it has a few serious >> usability problems for me: >> >> 1) You can't copy/paste text from evince _at_all_. At least it works >> right most of the time with acroread. I really like being able >> paste example commands or bits of code or a sentance or three from >> PDF docs into a shell or editor window. Pasting tables is a bit >> more work, but it can at least be done with acroread. >> >> 2) You can't print the current view. I find that invaluable for >> printing portions of documents (e.g. I want just a section of a C >> size schematic printed on letter sized paper, or just one table >> table from a manual sized to fill a 8.5x11 page). If it did have >> 'print view' then lack of a marquee zoom would become another >> inconvenience. >> >> 3) There's no way to collapse-all in the TOC panel. When I open a >> 1200 page document with 30 sections and several hundred sections >> and subsections, I don't want to see all of them all of the time. >> Closing them one at a time by hand is pretty tedious. >> >> I find that about 20-30% of the time I start up evince, I end up >> closing it and re-opening the document in acroread.
> Sounds like Evince has really gone down hill since I last used Gnome. Even though I have quite a bit of Gnome stuff installed, I don't use the Gnome desktop, I use XFCE. That may be part of the problem: most "Gnome" apps seem to go out of their way not to work with other desktops. > I use Atril on Mate desktop and it works as well as Evince ever used > to for me, which is expected seeing as it was forked from Gnome 2 > sources. I have never had any problems cutting and pasting text. > And you can definitely close the TOC panel. I don't want to close the TOC panel. I want to collapse all the entries in the TOC tree widget _in_ the TOC panel. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list