Eye candy may be important for some users, but IMHO Evince needs to improve what I consider basic usability first.
I try to use Evince as much as I can, but it still has problems that force me to use Adobe some of the time. I use a lot of fill-in pdf files like IRS forms. Evince (to the best of my knowledge) is not able to tab between fields. You have to mouse click on each field, which makes it relatively unusable. It opens in huge windows that span desktops, so each time I open a file in it I have to maximize the window to get it all in my current desktop. I tried to print a file yesterday and it crashed and closed all instances of it. Adobe then printed the file no problem. Evince will not print multiple copies.
If this is a case of RTFM, then please excuse my ignorance and point me to where I can find decent documentation. When I am trying to complete a job I don't really want to get off the clock to spend substantial time figuring out how a software product works. Instead, I deal with the quirks and resort to Adobe when needed.
I'm a CPA. We use Lacerte tax prep software. Lacerte was bought by Intuit several years back, much to my sadness (I hate Intuit), and it has been going down hill since. I started having problems getting returns and extensions e-filed yesterday morning. Usually I send them individually as each one is ready to go. They started not going through to Lacerte/Intuit and I was getting status on returns set to transmission failure. Big pain in my ass. I started to leave the communications manager open and repeatedly sending, getting a return through now and then. Sometime in the afternoon they must have changed a time out setting and my end would try a lot longer and more returns and extensions got through. Then it became a problem of getting acceptance notification back from IRS. Returns and extensions had a status of sent to IRS until this morning when almost all received accepted status. Until then I was concerning with any that would have a reject and need to be resolved. So far all good. But the e-filing experience was less than good with Lacerte this year, and it must be because of the tie-in with Intuit servers.
The drawback of e-filing: used to be after the final post office run the drinking could start. Now you have to watch for rejects.
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Eye candy may be important for some users, but IMHO Evince needs to improve what I consider basic usability first.
I try to use Evince as much as I can, but it still has problems that force me to use Adobe some of the time. I use a lot of fill-in pdf files like IRS forms. Evince (to the best of my knowledge) is not able to tab between fields. You have to mouse click on each field, which makes it relatively unusable. It opens in huge windows that span desktops, so each time I open a file in it I have to maximize the window to get it all in my current desktop. I tried to print a file yesterday and it crashed and closed all instances of it. Adobe then printed the file no problem. Evince will not print multiple copies.
If this is a case of RTFM, then please excuse my ignorance and point me to where I can find decent documentation. When I am trying to complete a job I don't really want to get off the clock to spend substantial time figuring out how a software product works. Instead, I deal with the quirks and resort to Adobe when needed.
I'm a CPA. We use Lacerte tax prep software. Lacerte was bought by Intuit several years back, much to my sadness (I hate Intuit), and it has been going down hill since. I started having problems getting returns and extensions e-filed yesterday morning. Usually I send them individually as each one is ready to go. They started not going through to Lacerte/Intuit and I was getting status on returns set to transmission failure. Big pain in my ass. I started to leave the communications manager open and repeatedly sending, getting a return through now and then. Sometime in the afternoon they must have changed a time out setting and my end would try a lot longer and more returns and extensions got through. Then it became a problem of getting acceptance notification back from IRS. Returns and extensions had a status of sent to IRS until this morning when almost all received accepted status. Until then I was concerning with any that would have a reject and need to be resolved. So far all good. But the e-filing experience was less than good with Lacerte this year, and it must be because of the tie-in with Intuit servers. The drawback of e-filing: used to be after the final post office run the drinking could start. Now you have to watch for rejects.