Bug#848998: evince search in jessie entirely broken, already fixed in 3.22 that is not available in jessie

[Jason Crain]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 07:36:39PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
> The "search" function in PDF documents in evince 3.14 (currently in stable
> 'jessie') won't jump to corresponding page of the document for found matches.
> 
> This is already fixed in 3.22 available in testing/unstable. Please consider to
> backport this version to jessie.

Version 3.22 is not going to be backported.  That would require
backporting half of GNOME and at that point, you may as well just run
testing.  It might be possible to backport the patches that fix that
specific issue as a stable update.  The patches in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/730252 are pretty simple.  But it depends on
whether Debian's GNOME maintainers and the stable release managers
consider the issue important enough for a stable update and I have
doubts about whether it meets the 'truly critical functionality problem'
guideline.

There is a simple workaround; just view the document in continuous mode
instead of non-continuous mode.