Since I had marked the other thread solved I thought I would just post a new thread. In the last one it was suggested to me to report a bug to evince and I did. It had already been posted so I added my comments and a few other people have posted comments also. Today I received an email about the status of the bug. I have posted the contents below. They are going to fix it but might provide a workaround. Personally, I uninstalled it and use ePDFViewer now.
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
Ever Confirmed|0 |1
--- Comment #5 from Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc@gnome.org> 2010-06-30 07:06:43 UTC ---
Evince doesn't have preferences and we are not planning to add them, but I'm
considering adding an option to save current settings as default, I guess that
would solve the problem for everybody with minimal impact in the UI.
Thought I would post the latest message from bugzilla. No mention of when this would be implemented but I think it should satisfy most people. It meets my needs anyway. Hope it is good news for all
john
Carlos Garcia Campos [evince developer] 2010-07-02 15:52:09 UTC
I mean, settings will be saved per document as always, but you can set the
current settings of the current document as default for new documents
