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David.P

Thank You, Dan.

TrackerSupp-Daniel wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:31 pm @David, From what I can tell, Rakunavi's post following yours includes an excellent example of what you were describing [...]

Sorry, I can't seem to identify which post you are referring to.

Can you please indicate which post?

Best regards
David

David.P

Thank you Daniel,
I am seeing this kind of delay when only copying/cutting ONE single link, with many of my files. I shall try and send you a file as soon as I come across one that can be shared.
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David.P

Hello all, and thanks for the further helpful contributions. Just one quick note particularly on the below. As long as the software as a whole is not freezing through this process, which it does not appear to be in the video I have reviewed, there is no error, and all is working as expected. Please ...

David.P

Hello all, here is a video that shows the very slow process of populating the Link Pane. In this case, it takes almost 6 minutes, even with some parts of the video cut out for privacy reasons. Below is only a short snippet of the video. The entire video is attached. Link Pane Population.gif Admitted...

David.P

Thank you Stefan, and sorry for the late reply. I just realized that it seems that I have unfortunately/accidentally deleted my "editable stamp" template, which already had worked really well. Let me try and recover that from a backup of the settings file that I hopefully can find somewher...

David.P

I can't believe what is happening here 🤷‍♂️ Just as a note to the Tracker team: I am experiencing the aforementioned delay times when listing or copying/cutting links not only in the particular file mentioned there, but to varying degrees in all (at least somewhat more complex) files, depending on f...

David.P

Hello Rakunavi, I'll try to be as brief as possible to avoid adding to the growing text walls. The first of my links in post #2 describes the same issue as alternative B in your subject line, and the second link is about an issue that is at least related: I believe there are two related threads on t...

David.P

This is becoming strange and a little tiring imho... Your subject line literally says: " As the number of comment or link objects increases, the time required to cut or copy link objects might increase " The second OR-alternative of this is equivalent to 'having many links can lead to poor...

David.P

Am even more confused now.

rakunavi wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:12 pm
David.P wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:28 pm You explain that "the time required to cut or copy link objects increases with many links".
I don't think I have written such an expression anywhere

It's quite literally in the subject line, and in the first sentence of your OP...💁?

David.P

I don't understand. You explain that "the time required to cut or copy link objects increases with many links".

That's exactly the same as in one of the linked threads, and similar to the other thread that also deals with slow link performance.

David.P

Hello all,

I believe there are two related threads on this issue:

Copying and/or pasting a link takes a long time

Listing all links in a PDF document can take a long time

It would be great if the developers could look into how this can be improved.

Best regards
David

David.P

Understood, Daniel.

Just as some of my previous feature requests initially were met with a fair amount of pushback but later became killer features of PDF Exchange Editor, I remain hopeful that all is not lost here

David.P

As long as there is no other option to "post-embed" fonts, I was just going to briefly note that it seems to work very well to inject non-embedded fonts into a PDF by saving it as PDF-A. This only seems to delete any custom commands that are present in bookmarks or fields, for example. The...

David.P

Thank you, Daniel. You're absolutely right, the question whether X/Y-coordinates for comment text content are available (or can be calculated) is crucial for this feature request. Looking forward to an answer from the devs on whether this might be doable. And, of course, to any other comments or vot...

David.P

Yes that's exactly what the feature request is about, Daniel: placing a link object above the comment object (not inside the comment object, as this is not possible as you correctly state), at the right place relative to the selected comment text. It is of course also not viable for comment pop-ups,...

David.P

Thank you, Daniel, for your reply. To accomplish [navigation to a specific page inside of the current document], you will need to place a link object, which necessitates it being part of the page, not hidden inside of a comment/popup box Yes, this is exactly what the feature request is about: To be ...

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Team, This feature request has been already raised but may have been overlooked, since the original thread (being about another issue) is set to "resolved". Therefore, I thought I'd open another thread particularly to this feature request. It would be an awesome add...

David.P

What I really want is a way to edit all bookmarks to have the following properties [...] Yes, fine-tuning link or bookmark properties like this in bulk will require the feature that, as Stefan noted, is currently being worked on: Bulk-Edit Link Actions.png Bulk-edit properties of multiple Bookmarks...

David.P

That's very good news! Thank you Stefan. Cheers David :) PS: @mCHSNUg5Pz8cPap, I believe that this: I would like to add my voice to those who are advocating for the ability to bulk edit bookmark properties . In my case, I have large files with many bookmarks, which all have the X and Y destination p...

David.P

Yes I miss it almost every day that we're not able to select several (or many) links, and then change the link destination of all selected links e.g. from page 873 to page 234 at once – instead of having to do hundreds of mouse clicks to achieve the same. I've been using the screenshot software Fast...

David.P

could you use Function keys 13+ (usually keyboards only have F1-F12) ... Has anyone tried this with AutoHotKey/PowerToys or SharpKeys for example? Yes that works. I have remapped Right Shift to F14 which in turn opens Voidtools Everything. When I shut down Everything, I can assign F14 to things in ...

David.P

: wow.png (11.15 KiB) Viewed 1187 times

Mathew done it again!

David.P

Hello all, this feature request reminds me how awesome the great Mozilla Firefox browser was, decades ago. There was this extension called "Showcase" that provided the browser tabs as thumbnails in a sidebar like this: image(2).png Current screenshot showing the Pale Moon browser that stil...

David.P

Wow, as if snapping alone wouldn't be a totally awesome feature for an PDF Editor, it is even configurable! I didn't know that. When the devs take a look into this bug as reported by Daniel, maybe a tiny audible feedback could be added to the snapping feature? That would make snapping even more intu...

David.P

Hello all, When doing the same as described in rakunavi's original post above, but with base content, it is possible to select elements that are behind other elements in Z-order by alt-clicking on them. It would be great if this behavior could be introduced for comment objects as well. Best regards,...

David.P

Hello all, This is interesting as I am also planning to automate some repetitive tasks in PDF-XChange Editor. In my case, however, it is basically about executing several menu commands in sequence. Can this also be done with PDF JavaScript? In general, I have had good experience working with ChɐtGPT...

David.P

That's funny, Burdarper -- what you mention are basic functions that PDF-XChange Editor has been able to do for decades, and way better so than Ad0be Acr0bat. I tell users and IT reps normally that PDF-XChange Editor is 10 to 100 times faster than Ad0be Acr0bat in many respects, for example with lar...

David.P

Yes!

+1 from 2016:

David.P

Hello Daniel,

thank you for your reply.

I will make sure to provide a document and the exact recompression settings where this issue still happens.

Best regards,
David

David.P

Hello all, ...[Recompress Images] doesn't work as expected. When trying to compress selected images (one or more), I get the following result: No changes were made. Please check your input data and try again. Using the function "Recompress Image..." for a single image (instead of "Rec...

David.P

Hello Stefan, thanks for your answer. I am using the latest Opera version v.107. When saving as PDF (via right click), the whole web page is saved as one long PDF (which I prefer over splitting the page -- if needed, this can always be done via printing to PDF). There don't seem to be any options in...

David.P

Thank you, Stefan. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to successfully edit the text field in the stamp template file. For example, after editing, the default value (here "XY") no longer appears in the text field, but only the text field name: image.png Also, if I change some propertie...

David.P

Hello all, Thanks for this helpful discussion. I'd have some more question on this please. I've created a dynamic stamp to correspond to an existing bitmap template (top left below), and where you can enter any number (or text) when placing the stamp. This has already worked quite well: image.png Ho...

David.P

Hello all, Opera can save entire web pages as single PDF pages. Unfortunately, it seems one can't set the PDF's paper size or dpi or scale in Opera. Therefore, my attached example PDF from Opera has a page size of 1306 x 16164 mm. In F0xit Reader for example, the PDF page is shown completely, in PDF...

David.P

Hello Stefan, this reasoning makes sense. However, in image editors (e.g. Paint.net or Photoshop) it is standard behavior that every single selection or deselection operation is also added to the undo stack and therefore can be undone. I'm not saying this should be added to PDF-XChange Editor, at le...

David.P

This reminds me that I've never understood why it is generally considered normal software behavior to be able to undo basically anything - but not the accidental loss of a selection that might have taken you minutes to puzzle together...

David.P

Hello all, as I also need this feature, I need to downgrade to the previous build. Unfortunately I can't find it, as the download page for the previous versions ends at version 8.0.336.0 from 2020. Please provide a link to download build 383. Best regards -- Edit: Never mind, I've puzzled together t...

David.P

Hello all,

I can confirm that this worked until build 383 and now doesn't anymore.

I also use this all the time when drawing polygons and believe that it is a very important feature that should be restored.

Best regards
David

David.P

Hello all, that's a good feature request in my view. With regard to a workaround, same as Stefan has mentioned, I would suggest doing the Deskew command on a copy of the document, and afterward replacing back those pages that have been incorrectly deskewed from the original document. While this migh...

David.P

Understood, Stefan, staying within the PDF specification has of course top priority.

Now that we know that this is the reason it doesn't work as originally expected, it's also easier to decide for a workaround.

Thank you
Best regards
David

David.P

Thank you Stefan. Please note that negative values already nicely work as shown in my screenshot. The only issue seems to be that they are not saved internally after the text properties dialog is closed. For easier verification, I am attaching the corresponding PDF file. Kind regards, David Negative...

David.P

Hello Forum and Support Team, sometimes I have the need for negative spacing before a text paragraph in a comment, for example in order to center some text in a narrow textbox, see below example in the screenshot. In fact, negative spacing already works, but only as long as the Text Properties dialo...

David.P

Hello all, I also believe that there should be a way to better "find search results", in some cases. While I don't use giant plans as Jakub, I usually have lots of comments and things in diverse colors on the page. If I then search for something, it can take several seconds, or it can even...

David.P

I'm just now getting around to mentioning (having just installed the Mirror Comments JavaScript) what a fantastic tool this is, even with its own gorgeous GUI. The underlying JavaScript code is a piece of art! I even managed to move the button to launch the Mirror Comments tool from the menu to the ...

David.P

+1 👍

This will be an awesome addition to the (once controversial:) "Rename Open File" and "Move to Trash" features.

David.P

Thank you, SCH, for the kind words. Your punchy and poetic posts are always a pleasure to read. I can only agree in that PDF-XChange Editor is a life-changing software. PDF-XChange Editor is probably one of the top ten software programs in the world, irrespective of which field you look at. The same...

David.P

If all else fails, you could rasterize the pages in question in appropriate resolution and color depth, and then run OCR on the rasterized pages.

This way, you get a fresh OCR layer that is not confused by the turbulent past of the document.

David.P

Thank you, Stefan.
Will do.

David.P

Yes thanks Stefan, I think that's also what it says over there in the instructions linked above. What I had in mind was to specify my normal download folder as the watched folder (which of course contains all kinds of stuff), and then automatically OCR only those three dozen PDFs that I might downlo...

David.P

Hello all, as a follow-up question to this discussion, can PDF-Tools Folder Monitor be set up such that (while the Folder Monitor is running) only newly added PDF files are detected and processed? In other words, files that already exist in the watched folder should not be processed when Folder Moni...

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