Version: (using KDE KDE 3.96.0) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages OS: Linux When you use a book, the first page is a right page, alone, then the following ones are opened together. When you use for example Latex with the option openright, you can specify that the first page is a right page (openright, you start the book by a right page). Then if you have a large screen as a 22 inches widescreen, you can very easily use the kpdf or okular option to get two pages displayed simultaneously, and then you have on your screen exactly what you would get on the paper, except that for now the pages are shifted, you have a right page on the left and a left page on the right, and you loose the natural seeing of figures for example which would be in front of your text. A turnaround for this is to add a blank page as the first page of your pdf. But I would be very pleased to see this as a built-in feature of okular, with a "book-like two pages" view. Thanks Paul Cazottes
What about activating the "Center first page" option in the settings?
It's a good solution, I didn't realized it exists. It's still less natural than having the first page on the right, aligned. I let you decide if you want to implement a "first page on the right" option or let this option that is already excellent. Thanks for your work on okular! Paul Cazottes
*** Bug 172451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If this bug isn't going to be fixed, then at the very list the view mode string should be changed so that it doesn't say "Facing Pages", because right now that option doesn't show facing pages (unless one has the very obscure "Center First Page" setting checked -- and I'm not sure why this is in "settings" and not in "view mode", where at least people might see it when they were trying to get okular to display facing pages). You could call it "side by side" or something. Even better would be to actually display facing pages regardless of whether the first page is centred.
Related: Bug 180445
Fixed