Solved PDF Reader which can handle zoomed page breaks right

SDK Chan

SDK Chan

I have some books I want to read in PDF format, and I tried mupdf since it is my favorite PDF reader.
The page loading initially is small for my screen so, I need to zoom in for reading.
If I attempt to go from one page to another the page break does not go well while zoomed in.
Instead of going to the top of the next page the PDF reader goes to the middle, or even to the bottom of the next page so that manually intervention is needed.
It does not happen if a page is not zoomed in.

Is there a PDF reader who handles zoomed in page breaking correctly?
 
I tend towards xpdf, I set view to "display single page" and zoom to "fit window". Doing that, "Page Up/Page Down" gives me what I expect or the equivalent of "turning a page in a physical book".
Not sure if that helps what you want, but it's what seems to work for me. Evince-lte works in a similar manner for me.
 
I'm also a big fan of zathura, I also install zathura-pdf-mupdf. It not only enables me to read pdfs, but also ebooks in epub format. I'm sorry, I don't know if it will solve your specific issue.
 
mer said:
I tend towards xpdf, I set view to "display single page" and zoom to "fit window". Doing that, "Page Up/Page Down" gives me what I expect or the equivalent of "turning a page in a physical book".
Not sure if that helps what you want, but it's what seems to work for me. Evince-lte works in a similar manner for me.
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xpdf solved the issue for me.
I tried out zathura, and okular, too.
 
eseipi said:
...and they don't, or you simply had other reasons, not related to the problem described in the opening post?
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Zathura was fine, and I could scroll with it to the next pages beginning, but only with arrow keys. If I used the Page Up and Page Down keys while zoomed in the current page, it would issue the same behaviour like mupdf and just go to the center of the next page.

Mupdf for example showed only one page after the other so, if I zoom in the upper corner of the page, scroll the same zoomed page down till the end of the current page, and go to the next page, then I will start zoomed at the center of the next page.
I think it has something to do with pages handling.

Zathura displayed the pages in the same way, but xpdf displayed me a list of pages which I could freely scroll up or down.
So, if I zoom in or out, I can see the pages clued together that is why I do not have the same problem exhibited by mupdf and zathura.
 
LillieNB said:
Zathura was fine, and I could scroll with it to the next pages beginning, but only with arrow keys. If I used the Page Up and Page Down keys while zoomed in the current page, it would issue the same behaviour like mupdf and just go to the center of the next page.
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Ah, now I see what you mean. In zathura, PgUp and PgDn are bound by default to Goto actions, not scrolling, so yes, the page you're jumping to will be centered initially. But there are other mappings as well:
Code: 
          h, k, j, l
                 Scroll to the left, down, up or right direction

          ^t, ^d, ^u, ^y
                 Scroll a half page left, down, up or right

          t, ^f, ^b, space, <S-space>, y
                 Scroll a full page left, down, up or right

          H, L   Goto top or bottom of the current page

And also some related options:
Code: 
       scroll-full-overlap
              Defines the proportion of the current viewing area that should
              be visible after scrolling a full page.
              • Value type: Float
              • Default value: 0

       scroll-step
              Defines the step size of scrolling by calling the scroll command
              once
              • Value type: Float
              • Default value: 40

       scroll-page-aware
              Defines if scrolling by half or full pages stops at page
              boundaries.
              • Value type: Boolean
              • Default value: false
 
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