Bug#414248: evince should have an option for double-page view starting with a single page

[Sven Luther]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:43:27AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Sven Luther <luther at debian.org> writes:
> > Evince should have an option for a double-page view, where the first page is
> > in a single page, for documents like those produced by the twoside pdflatex
> > option, and in general most two-sided documents will have a single first page,
> > followed by a set of double pages.
> 
> Erm, I'm not sure what bug you are reporting. There is a Dual View in
> evince (in the menu, go to "View", pick "Dual"). When it comes to

Yes.

> displaying the first page, evince should usually just do the right
> thing, though there are some bugs in that area that were fixed in the

No, it just does the wrong thing, which is what i filled the bug report.

A typical two sided document is as follows :

		Cover
	Page 1	Page 2
	Page 3	Page 4
	Page 5	Page 6
	...

(Well, The Cover would be the first page of the pdf, and Page 1 would be the
second, but this is a detail).

The two-sided view of evince does :

	Cover	Page 1
	Page 2	Page 3
	Page 4	Page 5
	...

Which does the wrong thing, having the facing pages in the two-sided view,
being not the facing sides of the document, but both opposite sides of a page.

> new version in experimental. You may want to test if it does what you
> expect, but please report back so that I understand what's missing from
> your POV.

I hope this clarifies it, feel free to ping me on irc if more is needed.

Friendly,

Sven Luther