At least tracemonkey.pdf, freeculture.pdf, TAMReview.pdf, and S2.pdf all crash it. I stopped testing after that.

I don't know what these files all have in common (I know most of them are multipage, but I don't think that's the issue...)

DocumentViewer shouldn't use BePDFs icon.

This does not mach Haiku's user interface guidelines, nor does it look good.

When opening a file in DocumentViewer, I don't want to have to click "zoom in" 4-5 times to get a readable level. DocumentViewer should be able to detect screen size and document size and adjust to a decent zoom level automatically.

I have installed DocumentViewer using Haikudepot.
When i double click on any pdf files, to open them with DocumentViewer, an alert window tell me that "Could not find an application to open foo.pdf (application could not be found) etc.. etc.." Then offers me to find the proper application (clicking on "Find" button), but DocumentViewer doesn't appears inside this list. Obviously i can manually set the preferred application using the "FileTypes" preflet, but the process should be automatic.

I'm on Haiku hrev48053 gcc2h

I have recently updated DocumentViewer to the last available version: 0.3_git-4.
Well, this version, (although if i delete the "RecentlyOpened" file as described in ticket #2), is unable to load some PDF files. In anyway i have noticed a very strange behaviour: if I open a PDF file which contains only text and some graphics, the next time DocumentViewer will be able to open these PDF file (which I link below to this message), and in this case i can see that the file "Apps" is created under "/boot/home/config/settings/Apps": this configuration file, instead, is not created if i open "problematic" PDF files.

If i delete the file "/boot/home/config/settings/Apps/Apps" (which is not created the first time that i attempt to open these "problematic" PDF files), DocumentViewer is still unable to open these PDF files (which contain images). But if i delete "/boot/home/config/settings/Apps/Apps", DocumentViewer will be able to open PDF files which contains only text and some graphics, and the file "/boot/home/config/settings/Apps/Apps" will be created (is created only with simple PDF files").
I hope to have been clear, since this behaviour is very odd, and I'm not very good to express myself in english.

In anyway these are PDF files which DocumentViewer can't open at the first attempt (eg with a fresh install, and so with the directory "/boot/home/config/settings/Apps/" empty)

ftp://files.dlink.com.au/products/DIR-300/REV_A/SetupGuides/How_to_setup_Port_Forwarding_in_DIR-300.pdf

http://www.dlink.com/-/media/Consumer_Products/DIR/DIR 300/Manual/DIR_300_Manual_v_2_00_en_uk.pdf

Some of them are not so obvious as to what they do, so it'd be nice to have tooltips.

PR #21 caused build errors below:

After checking up on latest push in the source I wanted to check out a new build, the app launches fine, but freezes without response ...

As i've said on a previous ticket, i have installed DocumentViewer to handle pdf files. I have a bunch of pdf files on my Haiku disk.
Most of them are properly opened, but when i close DocumentViewer, this app will crash. The rest of other pdf files aren't even displayed: DocumentViewer will instantly crash. I have casually found a solution, to avoid the crash: open DocumentViewer, and click on the cancel/delete button (the red "X"), to delete the history of recent pdf files. In this way DocumentViewer will not crash anymore. Or i can go to /boot/home/config/settings/Apps and the delete the file named "RecentlyOpened"
Output debug report: https://dev.haiku-os.org/attachment/ticket/11355/DocumentViewer-6211-debug-20-10-2014-16-38-55.report

If i open a pdf file which contains thumbnails (inside DocumentViewer, thumbnails are displayed in the left column of the app) these thumbnails will be only displayed for few instants, then will disappear.

I suggest to change the icon of DocumentViewer, since is the same of BePDF, to distinguish these apps. I quickly made a different icon: http://softwaredepot.xoom.it/PDFReader_Icon.hvif

I'm not sure whether this is already reflected in other tickets, nevertheless decided to mention:

• broken UI in current version (0.3), see the screenshot attached
• crash when trying to open a file (EN user guide of BePDF), see debug report attached
  

Version 0.3_git. Opening the app without a PDF (e.g. from "open app" in HaikuDepot) creates 2 windows that fill the entire screen.

The "Help" toolbar option opens a page that says "under construction".

Also, it points to DocumentViewer's old home, the URL needs to be updated.

The tab images could do with some tooltips. But since they use custom drawing code, it might be tricky to implement this. BView::SetToolTip isn't applicable here, unless one creates artifical BViews over each icon. I tried that and got many strange bugs, but maybe someone else could figure it out?

If it proves to complicated, we could potentially switch to text on the tabs, as is done in Adobe Acrobat DC.

DV crashes on start with this PDF file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/loh9elvhwfiyvs1/lpd433_pmr446.pdf?dl=0

DocumentViewer used to have this, but I disabled it in 044c2f3 because it was causing crashes.