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corvuscornix
Hello! I have a problem like this. The page is not saved in pdf readers. Tried atril, evidence, qpdfview, every time you start any book opens from the 1st page.
$ uname -a
Linux antix1 4.9.235-antix.1-486-smp #1 SMP Mon Sep 14 19:22:35 EDT 2020 i686 GNU/Linux
sybok
Hi,
it took me some time to actually understand what you (most likely) mean:
You open a PDF document, end the viewing at a certain page (e.g. no. 6), close, reopen and the document opens at page no. 1.
1) Not quite sure what PDF viewers support to reopen at last viewed.
Did you verify the ones you have tested do have this capability?2) Evince should/used to.
Not quite sure why it fails; the place where it stores the metadata (for a given file-name) is said to have changed over time.
The position and Arch-linux discussion and a follow up indicates that additional program (‘gvfs’?) may need to be installed.Info: I did not find a setting to enable/disable this feature in Evince (3.38.2-1 without ‘gvfs’ installed).
3) Did you try some other viewers?
See e.g. the below discussion suggesting a rather heavy-weight Okular (which can be installed in antiX):
https://askubuntu.com/questions/559060/fast-pdf-reader-that-remembers-the-last-viewed-pageBeware: Installing Okular may pull in a lot of dependencies!
@2) Revealed by a simple web-search. I encourage you to do such a search next time you encounter similar problem(s).
- This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by sybok. Reason: Edit: 2) expanded
Xecure
Hi.
I think what you mean is that “The program (a PDF reader) doesn’t remember on what page it was last closed (previous session) for a PDF file I was last reading”. What you are looking for is remember last session, or remember reading progress.
Most programs do not have this option enabled by default, so you just need to find the option in the preferences file or window.
For example, in qpdfview, the PDF reader I use in antiX Linux, you need to enable (Edid > Settings…) “Restore per-file settings” to “remember” on which page you were reading, “Restore tabs” to launch with all the different tabs you had last opened, and “Restore bookmark” to remember the bookmarks you manually add.Please, read the program manual or help files related to your preferred PDF reader to find out what is the name of the option and how to enable it.
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Murdock2525
Trying to guess ” pdf reader you use”…………….zzzzzzzzzz.
On other distributions, these applications remembered the last page by default. I tried Okular – it works here, so I’ll use it. Thanks everyone for the answers!
Murdock2525
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