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

Sergey Organov osv at javad.com
Wed Dec 21 21:17:45 UTC 2016


Jason Crain <jason at inspiresomeone.us> writes:
> 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.

[...]

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

Thanks a lot for this, -- it works! Then fixing this bug in jessie
is not that essential indeed.

-- Sergey.



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