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I do believe I came across this feature in Adobe Reader called show pages one-up. It's somewhere in the View menu. Basically what it does is show pages two by two, except that it starts showing the first page as the page on the right, just like you would see on a book if you folded it to make a book. (Sorry if that was an utterly **** description). The benefits is that you see pages as they are meant to be seen when made in to the final book-like product so pages with stuff flowing from one page to another aren't annoyingly cut off.

I came across this need very much so when designing the layout for a magazine and it was really difficult to visualise it without the feature.

(If you don't quite understand my description don't vote this idea down but post a comment and I will try set up some screenshots and images to explain)

must have for any page layout ptogram also... but I think this option already exists. certainly in Okular Version 0.8.90 Using KDE 4.2.95 I have view->view mode->facing pages.

Yes there is facing pages, but you see that shows the two pages like this:
1 2
3 4
5 6
etc

Whereas if that PDF was part of book and to be folded accordingly, the first page would actually be on the right, and so it _should_ be like this:
- 1
2 3
4 5
etc

Get what I mean? By the way I'm not saying replace the facing pages option like that, just create a new option for this new view. I'm not sure what the technical name is for this type of view.

Ah... good call.

Tried the "center first page" option in the preferences?

Most probably it should be renamed to something more sensible, but the feature should be there already.

yes.. it does what is asked. I agree its pretty hard to find tucked away in the settings panel. Would be much more discoverable as a view setting (somewhere in the view menu).

Aha correct - it is there.
Please rename it to something more sensible and dump it in the view menu then eh?