I share this concern, if not all the proposed solutions. :-) > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:09:10PM +0100, Damien Challet wrote: >> The pdf reader (a very nice piece of software) makes it a pain to go to the >> next/prev page for two reasons: >> >> 1) lack of dedicated button. There has been a few posts about that. What >> strikes me is that there are two buttons (select and the full screen button) >> that have currently exactly the same function: to switch from full screen to >> windowed mode and back. So we have one spare button. >> >> In principle one could use the select button to display the next page (short >> click) and the previous one (long click). Marius Gedminas wrote: > The Back button might be a better fit for going to the previous page. That's a great idea! Select to go the next page, and Back to go to the previous. It sounds just perfect. >> However, as suggested previously, FBreader uses nicely the zoom button to go >> forward/backward. This is being used for the zoom feature in the pdf reader, >> but honestly, how often to do change the zoom while reading a pdf file? Once. >> So the best suggestion is to use the select button to pop-up a zoom chooser >> and the zoom button to scroll down/go to the next page. >> >> Finally, when scrolling down (or up) a page with the D-pad, doesn't it make >> sense to switch to the next page if one is already a the bottom of a page? NO! Please don't! Please please don't! Pretty please? :-) It's really annoying when scrolling around a page with the arrow keys, one finds himself on the next or previous page without wanting it. Much better having dedicated keys, and using them. Did I already say please don't? ;-) > Or better yet -- support the "continous" mode that Acrobat Reader and > Evince have and show parts of both pages at the same time. No problem in continuous mode, of course. Unfortunately, KPDF exhibits this exact behavior even when *not* in continuous mode, and that's *mightily* annoying. I opened a bug in the KDE bug tracker for this problem, and it's slowly building consensus. >> 2) When displaying the next/prev page, please keep the horizontal position so >> that one does not have to adjust the centering at each page change. I second this one too. >> With these two modifications, the pdf reader program would much easier and >> faster to use. Definitely. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Looking good on paper is the first resort of those who want to appear to acknowledge some public concern without making any significant change. That's usually politicians, command-and-control business leaders and PR flacks. Real leaders know that looking good on paper means nothing unless it's the result of determined actions, not a replacement for them. -- Carmine Coyote, May 2006
