Description of problem: Nobody who is authoring PDF files can currently use evince. The problem is that evince cannot deal with changing files. Create a PDF file (e.g., with pdftex), start envince, change the file and recreate. The result is lots of garbage on the console and no more out. xpdf at least has the possibility to to reload the file with a single key press. This is needed in evince, too. It is not acceptable to have evince reload the file automatically. Often enough I want to look into the old file which has been overwritten. I suggest to extend evince to a) add a single key press reload function (please no Ctrl-<something>) b) recognize the file data has changed and in this case only use the data which is available in memory and not reading anything new. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evince-0.1.4-1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.echo 'foo\eject{}bar\bye' > a.tex 2.pdftex a.tex 3.evince a.pdf& 4.echo 'foo\bye' > a.tex 5.pdftex a.tex 6.press "page down" in evince Actual results: no output anymore Expected results: old document displayed, or warning message printed, no console output Additional info: This is a critical feature for anybody authoring PDFs. acroread is not usable for the same reason.
We added View->Reload (ctrl+r) in 0.1.5 Probably not yet a full solution to this issue.
I can't speak to the viewing errors. However, Ctrl-R is the standard HIG accelerator key for reloading a document, I don't see adding another one. We should probably file this upstream as it's not Red Hat specific. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=evince
The reload should be in the latest release of Evince. Are the viewing errors still present? probably are...
Tracking this bug (b) upstream now