Re: Multi-Page View UI

Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Today, my time, Marc committed the multi-page view
> code to TRUNK. Congratulations to James Denton who worked on this code
> for his Google Summer of Code project! I'm now asking for a bit of
> advice on how to finish it off. As things currently stand, multi-page
> view is triggered if while in Page View mode 2 more pages will fit
> across the screen. To do this you must put the zoom level to a fixed
> value and expand the horizontal width of the screen. It does this
> automatically with no preference setting.
>
> I'm actually very comfortable with this behaviour. One could imagine
> various other options that could be set via preferences or dialogs but
> I really like the simplicity of this approach.
>
> Now as things currently stand if you set your view to "Normal Mode"
> multi-page view will never be triggered at all.
>
> Are people comfortable with this? Or should we have mult-ipage view
> for normal too?
>
> In any case, enjoy our New Feature!
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
One suggestion I might add (without trying it) is adding a custom zoom
level called "two pages" (in the toolbar) that sets the zoom such that
you can fit two pages in the current window size. Might make the
feature more discoverable.

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