[Okular-devel] [Bug 152708] New: Missing option to use the "two pages" view in a natural order for books (openright)

[Paul Cazottes]

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           Summary: Missing option to use the "two pages" view in a natural
                    order for books (openright)
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: okular-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: paul.cazottes gmail com


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