Hi,

I use Evince 2.32.0 as PDF viewer and have small problem.

My preferred viewing options are:
scroll: "no scroll",
zoom: "best fit"
screen: "two pages"

That is how I configured it and saved settings.

However because of some bug when I open a file, I get totally opposite setting - "scroll pages", "fit width", "one page" on screen - funny yeah

This is not because of Evince remembering document state, because it's also on some files I open for first time. Maybe they have some flag inside telling Evince to display like that, maybe not...

So I want to set Evince always to open files like I prefer, without exception.

Can someone offer such solution?

PS. It was like this with any version I run AFAIK (from 2.26.0 as first one I think)

TIA

Select "Edit" in the menu at the top. Then select "Save Current Settings as Default". Does that solve your problem?

Yes I already said that I saved the settings and some files does not respect it.

I found solution nonetheless - regardless this saved state, there is file which on Ubuntu 11.04 is located here:

where this can be set. I don't understand why it's made like this, but it works fine for me, after changing values in this file

I removed [Solved] flag as seems that problem is twofold.

I think that changing above XML file (aside saving configuration) impacts Evince display, but just now I opened a file (for the first time) and it did not respect my settings. Again.

Some time ago I was annoyed by a PDF bookmark problem - whenever I clicked some bookmark on some documents, it changed zoom level from my current view. I then grabbed some PDF tool (I think I was using Python with pyDPF) and started to look for clues, when I found that only bookmarks with set flag to "fith" (I think it was named like that, probably meaning fit horizontal width) cause problems. BTW I learned that there are other flags, which Evince doesn't care about, but only respect this. Well, let it respect some clueless PDF creator setting zoom flags in PDF files (something Adobe clearly does not recommend, but allows as feature) but then I think that Evince should provide setting to user to override this obvious flooded decision or more likely bug, as only this flag is followed.

So I think this is the problem - document has flag set to "fith" on opening. I don't know of a better PDF viewer and tried all of them. I like SumatraPDF (based on mupdf) when using Windows, but unfortunately developers does not know Linux, and I don't like to use wine to view PDF files.

If someone has idea how to solve this, without writing bug reports, please post

Cheers