Bug#845530: evince: Search doesn't navigate (by index or 'next') to found results

Jason Crain jason at inspiresomeone.us
Mon Nov 28 19:50:33 UTC 2016


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On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:29:33AM +0000, Conrad J.C. Hughes (for Debian package stuff) wrote:
> When I search for text in Evince, it finds results but doesn't seem to
> support navigation to those results.  For example, if I search for
> "thanks to" in this document:
> 
>   http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/crag/files/2016/10/algocracy.pdf
> 
> I get a result, but neither by clicking or double-clicking on the result
> in the results index pane, nor by clicking on the "next" or "previous"
> arrows, can I navigate to that result.  I have to manually scroll through
> the document until I reach the (correctly highlighted) text.

Does it work if you view the document in continuous mode?  There was a
bug in evince https://bugzilla.gnome.org/730252.



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