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Title:
  Hardcoded Evince cache size limit restricts maximum zoom to 70% on
  large (area) documents

Status in Evince:
  Fix Released
Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: evince

  Evince restricts the maximum zoom level for large PDF documents.  For
  example, with a document that is nominally:

    2743 mm × 914 mm

  the only zoom levels given to the user are:

    50% and 70%

  this means that the text is impossibly small, and hard to read.
  Ideally allow zoom level should be presented to the user, regardless
  of the theoretical paper size; which is completely hypothetical,
  because it's digital and just bits and bytes.

  It seems that Evince has a hardcoded cache size limit (in an effort to
  avoid hanging the user's machine).  Ideally tiled rendering, or a more
  dynamic cache-size selecting algorithm should be used (on a machine
  with 3GB it makes no sense to limit to 100MB).

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