Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.5) Installed from: Gentoo Packages In books, the logical flow is usually left-to-right or right-to-left pagewise. Also, many magazines utilize full 2 page artworks. Occasionally tho, KPDF will mess the order up, even in "2page" mode, for whatever reason, usually due to the pack order of the PDF itself. ie: [title][1-2][3-4] gets packed as [title-1][2-3][4], or the document lacks ( for whatever reason ) a padding page in the middle of it, so the first half of the magazine has correct 2-page layout, but the second half does not, or vice versa. I propose a novel alternative "continuous" flow technique, which while not nessecarily usefull in all cases, but potentially a very nice feature. Basically have an option to have all the page continuations arranged left-to-right. This would also be of use for people with wide screens, or multiple screens who wish to display 4 pages at a time like you would a book. This would solve the "full-page" tearing problem :) ( especially nasty if you have something on the left directly referencing something on the right but you cant tell what it is cos they dont line up on screen :( )
> Occasionally tho, KPDF will mess the order up, even in "2page" mode, for > whatever reason, usually due to the pack order of the PDF itself. ie: > [title][1-2][3-4] gets packed as [title-1][2-3][4], or the document lacks > ( for whatever reason ) a padding page in the middle of it, so the first > half of the magazine has correct 2-page layout, but the second half does > not, or vice versa. Isn't bug #100341 what you want?
Similar Request, but not exactly. That bug requests 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 and 1 2-3 4-5 6-7 Style layouts. Unfortunately, you get weird problems with irregular page spacing, such as 1 2-3 4 5 6-7 8-9-10-11 ( 4 page pull-out ) and simply using top-to-bottom page layout is nonadvantageous for such scenarios. For such scenarios I would prefer a left-to-right logical page order for the whole document, as opposed to top to bottom.
I think this is a wish for "horizontal continuous mode", which I would also really appreciate. Every now and then I have a scanned book, which means that the pdf has horizontal pages that contain 2 of the original pages. I would appreciate the "left to right" reading mode, which would make it possible (with the right zoom) to view any two or even three consecutive pages of the original book simultaneously (the one I am reading, the preceding one and the following one), i.e. one and a half page of the pdf file. Currently, I may view this: 1-2 3-4 5-6 In double mode, I may choose from 1-2 3-4 5-6 and 1-2 3-4 5-6 The horizontal continuous mode would give me 1-2 3-4 5-6 (with the possibility to zoom onto "2 3" as well).
(In reply to comment #3) @Ansa , kpdf is unmaintained . Are you still using kpdf, or are you actually using okular ?
Jekyll, thanks for pointing that out! Yes, I am using Okular. I did not realize that even when I go through "report a bug" in the Okular menu, the "search" function will still give me bug reports for other applications as well. Do I have to file a new wish-report for Okular?
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Re-reported as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343910