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[Question #251188]: Feature request: cmd-line option for fullscreen, two-page display

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From: Wayt Gibbs <question251188@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:16:57 -0000
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New question #251188 on qpdfview:
https://answers.launchpad.net/qpdfview/+question/251188

I'm hoping to use qpdfview to create a digital music stand to display sheet music on my piano. I'm running the 0.4.11beta1 version of qpdfview on a Raspberry Pi connected to a 24" display (which rests on the piano music stand) and to wireless control pedals (which send PgUp/PgDn keystrokes). qpdfview's ability to precache pages, antialias PDFs, and display two pages side by side in fullscreen mode with fast page-turn transitions make it ideal for this application.

However, I want to avoid having a keyboard and mouse on the piano, so I'm creating a front-end PDF browser that will then open a selected PDF in qpdfview. My request is that you add two command-line options to the program: 
--fullscreen to launch the app in fullscreen mode
--two-page to set the display mode to show two pages side by side

It occurs to me that these options would also be very useful for kiosk applications of qpdfview where public users are selecting documents by touchscreen.

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