PDF XChange Forum

benpal

For weeks now I have tried to update to shell extension 2.0.42.2. The installation process finishes apparently without problems, but when checking for available updates, the same release wants to update again.

PDF Viewer Pro. Windows XP SP3.

benpal

Yes, very much appreciated!

benpal

You obviously use the Search function to search within one single document, and an exceptionally large one at that. I don't consider 2 or 3 minutes of search time excessive in this case. Why don't you use the Find function in the first place? I'm using the Search function mainly to search through mu...

benpal

I'm using the Fineprint driver http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html to collate and reformat certain documents. When printing the finished document (e.g. Excel 2007 work sheet) from FinePrint to PDF X-Change (latest version as of today), the output is completely unreadable and it is...

benpal

It seems we are talking about two problems. I’m having both. First the updates for PDF shell extensions 2.0.40.7 are not updating properly they appear to install but it does not remove them the update list. I have this same problem, it insists on updating the same shell extensions everytime I check...

benpal

Great updates to the product ... and thanks for the hint - with live example.

benpal

Thanks, very informative and helpful to get to know new (and old, but forgotten) features.

benpal

we are in the digital age and book settings don't have meaning Digital age doesn't mean that there isn't a real word. And you use the book analogy yourself: "Facing pages" refers to a book, there are no facing pages on a screen. Why is it so important to have 2 pages on the first screen w...

benpal

Two excellent features!

Thanks for the hint.

benpal

Great product! Looking forward to the other enhancements as they become available.

benpal

How much products did you buy from yahoo? My guess is none, but i bet that you probably have used it freely at least once. Now there is bid on the table of 44.6 billions dollars, not bad for a freebee huh? Can you imagine, yahoo isn't even the biggest one in the market, that's google. Even second p...

benpal

hey, no matter what you like checking that box, the plug-in is not recognized by opera at all. thats what i mentioned in my post. before releasing this version, you should have tested it, right. After all, these are not test buiilds, are they ? For a stable software release it is expected that it t...

benpal

"Now, i don't know about anything about your financial situation, but if you can stick it out, you may hugely benefit from this descision in the long run." And the benefit (in financial terms) is? You know, I would like Porsche to give me the smallest of their cars for free. Wouldn't that ...

benpal

Excellent.

benpal

lignumaqua wrote:I can't wait for the Pro version so I can stop using that 'other' software completely.

Me too. Are there any tentative dates for the Pro version?

benpal

I do think we have every right to be very satisfied with what has been achieved so far, - particularly as we have tried (and largely succeeded I hope) in providing a free, fully featured Viewer that competes favourably in almost every area with Foxit and Acrobat that users have told us is important...

benpal

The CS7000 Manual is not a typical PDF document, it's just graphics in PDF format.
That's not how PDF should be used, but then, on my PC with 2GB, PDF XChange only uses 34MB and it is almost immediately displayed.

benpal

Actual memory usage on my PC:

Firefox 230MB
winword 64MB
PDFXCView 62MB (3 documents open)
Outlook 32 MB

benpal

Ok, understandable. Thanks anyway.
Ben

benpal

Reference table not found.

Created from a Word document using Adobe Creator. Opens correctly in Adobe Reader.

May I ask you to have a look at this file. Thanks.

benpal

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:Update doesn't seem to be applied properly.
Help, About still shows 021 and Check for udates again finds the 022 update.

Yes, I confirm. Update doesn't seem to happen, although at least some of the added features (color selection on toolbar) seem to be implemented.

benpal

Thanks!

benpal

Thanks for confirming liam193. In my case it's especially disturbing, because I took over my PC from somebody else and I would have to reinstall a lot of programs if I wanted to create a new user profile (have been there and abandoned). I would appreciate if the user name could be changed permanentl...

benpal

benradu: I noticed that text in the boxes displays correctly after double-clicking inside the boxes.
But I agree, it's not very nice.

benpal

[+] content menu for snapshot tool
Should probably read: [+] conteXt (right-click on selection or page) menu for snapshot tool

[-] fixed trouble with opening some encrypted documents
Great! Thanks ...

Ben

benpal

Great, thanks. Your service is truly outstanding and has inspired me to purchase PDF XChange Pro.

benpal

I fully understand what you are saying, because I had the same problem the first time I received a marked-up document that I couldn't print correctly. The only solution I see is to let the recipients know that they have to set the printing parameters accordingly. As far as I understand, Acrobat uses...

benpal

I really like PDF XChange. Such a great program, but unless I solve this, I will never know if recipients will be printing what I intended them to print. I know, I had the same problem. But why do you think that PDF XChange should force Acrobat to adopt a specific behavior? Wouldn't that be up to A...

benpal

Another approach to this save issue would be to confirm the save only the first time within a session and automatically overwrite all subsequent saves within that session. Why do we need a special behavior just for this application when all other Windows applications don't ask for confirmation? Use...

benpal

Opinion here is divided as to whether a warning is a good thing or not before overwriting an existing file when using 'Save'. For the sake of consistency, please no warning when using SAVE. I don't know of any Windows application which asks you to confirm when to save a file into itself. If one doe...

benpal

I guess this is rather a feature/problem of Acrobat and has nothing to do with PDF XChange. It looks like Acrobat is using this technique so that you can print a document with or without the comments/stamps, which might be rather convenient. Imagine you have a document with stamps and the reader wan...

benpal

I have another file which does open in Acrobat, but produces an error in PDF XChange, even in 0019.

Thanks for looking into this.

benpal

The recipient will have to set the appropriate options in the print dialog of Acrobat, e.g. "Document & Stamps".

benpal

In the text tool properties there is an Author name which supposedly is picked up from the Windows user profile (account). Can this name be changed permanently, other than by creating a new user account in Windows? Is it stored as a registry value under PDF-Viewer or in a configuration file? This na...

benpal

I agree, it's a terrific product. And I like it more with each update. You can show the tool properties as a floating toolbar by selecting View>Toolbars>Properties or by hitting Ctrl+E. I was getting worried about the speed when opening a document, but that has immensely improved in 1018. Good job! ...

benpal

Some of the great changes:

New and improved comment & markup tools, such as highlighter, callouts and text boxes, a comments list (not sure hwo it should work)
Text selection by column (especially useful in multi-column text)

benpal

Thanks.

Ben

benpal

I'm taking the liberty to issue a wish for improvement of the Text Selection feature in the Viewer. When selecting text from a single column in a multi-column document, the whole text across all columns gets selected instead of only the text in the selected column. Would be nice if your development ...

benpal

Great! Perfect anticipation

Thanks

Ben

benpal

Several white horizontal lines appear in this file (attached). They are not visible in Acrobat 8.0.

Created with PDF-XChange on Windows XP.

benpal

Thanks, already installed!

Really a great piece of software!

benpal

Yep, works in single page mode.

Great feature!

Ben

benpal

I like the search function and the possibility to search complete folders. But there seems to be a problem: When clicking on an item in the Search Summary - while searching in an open document, the Viewer doesn't always jump to the page containing the search term (it seems to jump to a page higher u...

benpal

Thanks for the explanation!

Ben

benpal

When trying to do a live update from 013 to 015, it seems to donlowd ok and I get the message that the update is installed. But the About box still shows 013. Downloading and installing 015 manually does work though. Windows XP Pro SP 2 Other than that, I like the implementation of the Search and Fi...

benpal

- But "Ctl-Shift-F" is usable. - I didn't even know that existed, though I was desperately looking for a Search function. I agree with David's remarks. Other than that, this Viewer has become my preferred PDF tool. It's coming along quite well and I'm looking forward to seeing all basic fu...

benpal

All is now OK <============ !!! It may be time to get new computer; my shopbuilt ASUS TUSL2-C is about ten years old. Hmmm I'm 75! Wife may be thinking about a new husband. 'Don't blame her. :? I'm glad it worked, although the reboot was probably scary ... Tell your wife that wine gets's better wit...

benpal

Found another quirk: I scanned a page, but for technical reasons I had to scan it upside down, then rotate it in the PDF Viewer. When you rotate the page bei 180°, the Typewriter Tool writes upside down, from right to left. It would be a great feature if you could rotate the text manually to any an...

benpal

Don Schmidt wrote:When I attempt to view a pdf file on the Internet the window

"File Download"
Do you want to Save this file?
Save Cancel

comes up. How to fix?

Don, did you set PDF-XChange Viewer as your system-wide default reader for pdfs?

On my PC, the PDF Viewer opens in a tab of IE 7.

benpal

I see now there are actually several smaller toolbars. Each button executes a single command or presents a flyout menu. But the rotate page function involves a dialog box providing the option to process multiple pages. Thanks, I learned something. I don't realize there were two different "Rota...

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Shell Extension 2.0.42.2

Re: PDF-XChange Review Update

Re: A Suggestion to Improve the Search Pane

Garbled output with FinePrint

Re: PDF-XChange PDF Shell Extensions 2.0.40.7 does not update

Re: PDF-XChange Review Update

Re: PDF-XChange Review Update

Re: how to do: page display facing start left side

Problem opening a PDF

How to change Author in text tool properties

A wish - Text selection

White horizontal lines

Search function problems

Problem with Live update on 1.015

Re: View pdf files on the Internet