PDF XChange Forum

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I do agree that this would be a nice feature, and have just created the Feature Request ticket in our internal system: #5753: FR: Ability to use accelerator keys to restrict angular movement when moving whole annotations/callout points I will post again here as soon as there are further news on thi...

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Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately it's just really slow to use the keyboard to paste copies of things and keep them aligned using arrow keys. David's point about arrows on callouts is also true and is in fact even more challenging to use, as you can't use the keyboard to make small adjustments t...

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Hello. I am a long time user of PDFX. Mainly for viewing and marking up engineering drawings, but also for creating things like invitations and presentation. One thing that always makes it a bit painful to use is the lack of lock to axis. So when I move an object it always drifts up and down as it m...

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I've waited a few years hoping this would be implemented, but maybe it's not on the developers' list so I figured I'd request it here ... What I'm looking for is to hold shift when I am dragging a comment, to constrain that comment to the horizontal or vertical axis. Same behaviour as MS Office and ...

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Hello. I'm trying to fill in a form (attached). When I click a box under the Identification section (e.g. "Individual") only the First Name field on that row becomes available. In Acrobat the behaviour is as expected, i.e. all of the fields on the row become available. Could somebody at Tr...

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Hello and thanks for the response. I didn't see it, so have been a bit slow to get back to you I'm afraid. What I'm looking for is to hold shift when I am dragging a comment, to constrain that comment to the horizontal or vertical axis. Same behaviour as Word, to give one example. That way I can, sa...

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I use a graphics tablet (Wacom Bamboo) to do most of my PDF work. XChange Editor is particularly sensitive to movement, so trying to double click by double tapping on an object also makes the object move slightly about 90% of the time. It's a pretty specific issue, but I wonder whether there is any ...

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Great to see that holding down ctrl whilst dragging now duplicates comments. Hurrah to that.

Now if only I could hold down shift to constrain it to an axis, I'd be a very happy user. But there's always 'just one more thing' that we ask for, eh?

Thanks Tracker!

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It is the bit clouded in blue. The underline goes wonky (thick/thin). Looks worse in Acrobat Reader. That said, I now can't reproduce it with that file. Think it might only happen with unflattened and I seem to have lost the unflattened original. However, I have printed (with PDFX Lite) another PDF ...

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I had the same issue so was very glad to find Robert13's fix. Thanks Robert.

I do get some odd glitches though. Like the line I have clouded on the attached PDF. Is that normal and/or avoidable? Similar glitches when I print to PDF either with PDFX Printer Lite or CutePDF.

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Ooh and I've just seen the 'save optimised copy' option. Lovely.

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Build 310 is a massive leap forward. Call me selfish, but having everything on my list except two of my nice-to-haves (b and c) is very nice for me. Can't tell you how useful the calibrate tool is to me, as an engineer. And being able to drag the measurement leader/text around (which was in a previo...

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Not sure if this happened in previous builds, but my Bamboo is unusable in 306. The pointer moves but there is an odd pause (as much as a second sometimes) when I hover over a menu/toolbar item and the left click doesn't work anywhere. Right click seems to be okay. Dialogue boxes work fine - I can l...

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I've just checked with the Dev. Team about potentially adding a workaround for the BluBeam issue, as we spoke about a while ago, and they've said that they said that they will look at doing so and see if it's plausible The devs have fixed it! That's really great. If I could kiss you, I would :wink:...

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Tracker will doubtless give a more detailed response, but from one user to another, I suggest that you try the Edit Content Tool. It is does the thing that I always thought PDF editors ought to do but none could ... until now. It's really rather a wonderful thing.

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Have you tried just copying the program folder (C:/Tracker/PDFE or whatever it is) to a USB stick, to create a portable version? That certainly worked up to about build 303. Haven't tried the more recent builds.

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Build 305 still not there for my purposes, unfortunately. I have found that without my points 2, 4, 7 and 8 it is simply too painful to mark up a drawing. The lack of compatibility with Bluebeam annotations (which I asked them about, but was ignored) doesn't help either. Ah well, roll on the next re...

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=Thanks, Paul! I'm currently testing under Windows XP 32-bit. As far as I see, none of the tooltips are appearing on all of the icons.

They appear for me under Win 7/64. Just so you know.

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Well we all new that it wasn't really gold. More like bronze, back in April.

But I don't care about that. What I do care about is that 21st October will be a great day! Looking forward to the release.

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Okay, I'll certainly let them know and will report back. I have a feeling that they won't be that interested, unfortunately, so a workaround would be much appreciated.

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I have attached an example. I can see all three callouts in Reader, but only two of them in Bluebeam.

Hope that helps.

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Stefan: on 4 and 7, that is great news. Thanks. As for the new new issue, you are quite right that it seems fine in Acrobat. Must have got myself a bit confused, so I did a bit more investigating. Looks like everything comes into Bluebeam except for call-outs (which just happen to be what I use most...

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Well now that build 303 is out, I'm pleased to find that I'm almost able to swap over to Editor ... 1) Implemented. Hurrah! I can live without my point 2 now that this one is in. Saves a lot of clicks and frustration. 4) There are now custom stamps, so I can sort of paste from clipboard via the Stam...

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"Images are pasted as stamps in the Viewer" That isn't quite right. In Viewer I regularly paste images (from snapshot tool or Print Screen, usually) using ctrl-v, though I suppose that Viewer might think of it as a stamp in some behind-the-scenes way. Either way, it's a very useful functi...

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Giraffe wrote:4) Paste from clipboard

"seems to work - I've copied some text from Opera and pasted it into a PDF."

It works for text, but not for images. Personally I use PDFX as an image tool 90% of the time (reviewing and creating engineering drawings), so copy/paste for images is essential.

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Try installing to your PC at home, then copy the installation folder from C:/Program Files/Tracker (or whatever it is) to a memory stick. You should be able to run it from there without installing anything on your office PC. Works for me, anyway.

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Great to see build 302 come out. Things are moving forward! For my purposes it is still not a replacement for Viewer, unfortunately. So although the developers' priorities will be different to mine, I can't resist posting a wishlist of things that I would love to see in the next build. Numbers 2, 4 ...

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... Not so much for some of the 200Mb monsters I grapple with ... I often work with construction drawings, so often work with 20MB scanned drawings. I'd be interested to know whether you find the Editor works for you. I have struggled with it, because whilst one minute it might open a large file al...

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... it's nice to cut the fat out a little to squeeze it under the 10Mb limit of most recipients. For me at least, I'd be happy to down sample most of my bigger files to just black and white at 300dpi. Brian, you can already significantly reduce the size of PDFs via the PDFX Printer (which is free f...

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Please don't be too harsh, brauner. It may not be quite feature complete, in the sense of duplicating all of the features from the previous version, but it certainly isn't alpha software. It is far superior to Viewer in many ways and the features that it has implemented are working well. I'm sure th...

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Wow, that was under the radar! Anyway, glad you got it out and now we can start using it in earnest. Many thanks.

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This happens to me periodically as well (Win 7/64). Restarting PDFX always makes it work again in my case.

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Hello. I admit to being a little over-excited when I saw this rather unexpected announcement. Unfortunately nothing seems to have changed from the December release, as far as I can see. Are you sure that the right version is on the server? It says build 280 in the About dialogue. I could believe tha...

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Got to say that I agree with Filip. After all this time, surely a beta test release is nigh on essential? First reviews/impressions will be based on the Gold release, so with so many changes from the previous release it seems highly likely to have a few bugs that we, the community, could help you sq...

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The next post on that 29th Jan thread correctd the one that you have quoted. Here it is: Re: Version 3.0 and PDF/A files by John - Tracker Supp on Wed Jan 30, 2013 5:00 am Actually Will is not quite correct - we expect a 2nd beta nearer the complete version in terms of features etc around the 3rd we...

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Personally I found that the delay was just right in Viewer, but is far too short in Editor. So I can write a capital E, F, T or whatever in Viewer, but in Editor I can't. Any chance of increasing the delay in Editor, or making it an option? The lock thing sounds like it will work, but with a slightl...

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But I use PDFX Lite, and that's how I do it. In fact I was doing exactly that yesterday evening, which is what prompted me to post it here. Maybe it's because I'm using v5? Or does Viewer Pro somehow unlock extra functions within Lite? If the former, given that it is free (for non-commercial use), m...

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@electrojim: Try clicking on Properties in the print dialogue, then reduce the Graphic/Resolution value to something like 150. Should help to bring the file size down.

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LOL Yes I'm sure he is aware of them. I was directing my comment at the OP.

Nice arrows, Vasyl

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I wonder if this is an optical illusion, at least to some extent. When I put Viewer and Editor side by side, the bottom of the first toolbar is almost exactly the same on both. With a 2nd row of toolbars, there is a small difference (maybe 2mm on my 23" 1920x1080 screen). Seems to me that altho...

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@ctindall: I use Bluebeam with a tablet on a daily basis at work (I'm an engineer). It is the same setup as I have at home, i.e. Bamboo tablet. The inking is the same in both, in terms of responsiveness. Bluebeam has a bit more finesse, because it varies the pen stroke with pressure, but of course i...

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I use a Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet and the writing is very responsive here on both Viewer and Editor. Win 7/64, Core2Quad, 4GB RAM. I'm not showing off :wink: , I just thought that it might give ctindall some hope that the issue is not universal, so may be solvable. Of course a digitizer is not th...

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Hope you don't mind if I wade in. It is something that interests me too. I think what Rob is saying is that when you print to PDF using the Acrobat (or Bluebeam) print driver, it immediately opens the file in the relevant PDF viewer and calls it something like "New Document". You can then ...

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It is great to have a semi-functional release to use; especially as it is no longer a secret so we can discuss it openly. Thanks to everyone at Tracker who must have been sweating over their Christmas holidays to get it out on the 27th. I thought I'd share my initial thoughts here. I'll start with t...

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@refract: "Victor, see if you can "Export to Images.." I get a full crash every time no matter what export format I choose. (Windows 7, plenty of memory)" Export to Image works fine for me (Windows 7/64 with 4GB RAM). I have just exported an 18MB PDF (a scanned A0 drawing) to a 5...

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I don't suppose there is a plan to release an updated beta, is there?

Wishful thinking, I know ...

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Makes perfect sense. Thanks Paul.

First bit of feedback just posted via email.

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I have the beta installed now. Hurrah! John said, "the primary features we are wishing to demonstrate and test are the editing and rendering available." Can you be a bit more explicit, to help us help you by providing feedback (via email of course)? Do you mean text editing? What does 'ren...

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Ah, okay. Decimal places and the units (e.g. "mm") should be removable, I would hope. We rarely use them in engineering mark-ups as we are always working in mm, so decimals and units aren't necessary. I nice workaround on the dimensions thing would be to have a different tool that does not...

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... a calibration tool measurement tool will take care of the scaling issue I believe ... Brilliant. That is probably my most-wanted feature, as marking up drawings is mainly what I use PDFX for. Really glad to hear that it will be included. Hopefully there will be a little more control over the di...

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