PDF XChange Forum

timtak

Thank you both. The printer has agreed to accept my no-bleed pdf and just enlarge it by 3mm on all sides. I just need to make sure that there is nothing important in the outside 3mm. I am still not sure how to use it but there does seem to be a dialogue for creating these marks in Acrobat, but there...

timtak

I have a book manuscript made of simple A4 pdf pages with artwork going up to the side of the page (usually the outside edge not the bound edge). Usually I just send it to the printer who resizes the pages a little to create a bleed, and I presume adds marks, like a capital L (or ∟ except usually wi...

timtak

Ten years later but, having moved from windows 7 to windows 10 ( one can still do so for free ) I am being asked repeatedly "Make this application default PDF viewer? □Do not prompt in future" but even if I click the check box, I am prompted the next time I open a PDF, which does default t...

timtak

Thank you, I very much look forward to it.
Tim

timtak

Is there a way of being informed of the process, completion, solution of

#4045: FR: Tools - Ability to skip OCR-ing documents already containing text element.

Tim

timtak

Dear Sasha Thank you very much indeed. I think that either of those options would be fine by me but preferably (1) since there are a lot of blank pages with no text symbols in all those journal article pdfs that I have. I don't think I have any part-scanned documents. It is just the pure, virgin, fr...

timtak

Dear Will I am afraid I fail to understand the difficulty. In the three example files that you gave, h 1) should not be scanned since it has a single character 2) should be scanned since it has not one single character (and nothing will be [correctly] found) 3) should be scanned since it has not one...

timtak

Thank you for your detailed explanation. Alas my pdfs are already spread out within many sub-folders in my Zotero data directory . So I hope that you implement a "only freshly scanned" option one day. I promise to purchase the software if you do. You are giving me a generous academic disco...

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Dear Stephan Thank you for joining in. > I do realize that if your files are freshly scanned - they will be image only - but there's no feature in the Editor and Tools to let you only OCR such. That is the feature I am humbly requesting. It is only the "freshly scanned" that I would like t...

timtak

Dear Will I am not sure what you mean by "documents with text and those without". I am not asking that your software distinguish between documents containing solely pictures, or solely diagrams, and documents containing text by use of OCR functionality (by scanning the document to see if t...

timtak

Will Sorry, I found the folder tree option too late. Thank you for pointing it out. "Unfortunately that's not possible, as there isn't any way to programmatically distinguish between 'normal' text and OCR text." Is it impossible to distinguish between pdf files that already have a text lay...

timtak

Dear WIll Only if you have time.... and perhaps I should start (a) new thread(s). I downloaded PDF-Tools and it looks really sweet. I am now batch OCRing a couple of books, one in Japanese the other English. It looks good, and will overwrite the old files in the same folder (which is what I want). 1...

timtak

Thanks Will

I will try out PDF-Tools.

Thanks again,

Tim

timtak

Thank you.

That is the dialogue box for Split Merge files, but I presume it is the same for the Optimize tool too

I guess that there is a trial period and I may try that.

Thanks for your help, and great software.

Sincerely

Tim
Timothy Takemoto

timtak

Thank you. I will try uninstalling everything and reinstalling now.

Yes, that appears to have worked.

I changed C to D in the installation too so I am not using SSD space.

Does PDF-Tools do batch Optimization too?

Tim

timtak

I upgraded from PDF-XChange 3 to 6 yesterday, for a bargain price, to use the Optimize functionality. Yesterday I was able to use PDF-Exchange & and the super Optimize. Either because 1) I had my old PDFX in D (because C is an SDD) 2) I used pdf exchange for a while after upgrade even though I w...

timtak

Dear Roman Thank you very much for the instructions on how to execute the code. There were two problems. 1) First of all the code uses LOCALAPPDATA\Temp to attempt to change the permissions of the windows defined %TEMPT% directory. My Temp director is not that directory but a random directory called...

timtak

How do I execute that code Roman?

My Temp folder is just a folder that I created. It is not in my documents or local appdata. It is just a bog standard folder on my D drive. I never have any problem saving to it. I have stipulated it in the settings of your software.

timtak

It has been years since I changed my temp directory (to move it out of my tiny SSD C drive when I bought my computer). I did add access and modify privelidges explicitly to my account. I am not sure what else I should do. To be honest the other problem (that the colours are all off after my display ...

timtak

Thank you Will (and before that John). With the new version the problem is essentially the same but the error message is now partly in Japanese. It says that it could not create a temporary file in the temporary directory (which I have moved out of my documents to a directory on the desktop). I move...

timtak

By all means. From the about tab
PDF XChange Printer 2012 lite
Version 5.0 build 273.2
Windows Home Premium x64 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1 but I am updating Windows now)

timtak

I am getting the same error message. I tried adding my user name to the security tab and giving myself read write and modify privelidges over the temp folder (I use one on my desktop) but nothing has changed. I still can't print using the PDF Exchange Printer Lite Drive from PDF Exchange Editor, get...

timtak

Pdf read can modify pdfs in nice ways but the GUI is not the best and i just failed to get it to work on my pdf
http://pdfread.sourceforge.net/
If pdf-xchange could link up to pdfread or use its routines then that would be great.

Tim

timtak

Lately I have downloaded a couple of papers in Japanese wherein the Japanese text is not displayed. One was sent to me by a student, using Adobe Reader, and the student could see the Japanese text. More recently this Japanese paper's text did not, does not display in PDF exchange. http://repository....

timtak

I will try that too. If this is the answer, then I recommend that the install recommends that we unistall first. No, reversing the page order using
CTRL J and for (i = this.numPages - 1; i >= 0; i--) this.movePage(i);
Still resulted in the watermark. I hope that support comes up with a solution.
T

timtak

I bought the editor. I used it to delete pages which did not (as in the past) result in the watermark being shown. However, when I go to save a file after being reordered, I see that the pages are marked with the watermark. I have contacted support.

timtak

It would be great if it were two computers and a laptop (I have a home and work computer). I guess I can buy another licence, or not install to my laptop.

timtak

Thank you. Will do. Looking forwrd to it. Lately I have been chopping off the spines and scanning my books on auto feed to pdf with our copy machine ( there are also scanning services which will do this at a small number of dollar per book, such as http://www.bookscan.us/) so my use of pdf has incre...

timtak

I installed the free, non-commercial/academic "Lite" version downloaded from https://www.pdf-xchange.com/free_lite_home.html But when I go to Document Extract pages, I am still told that there will be a demo watermark. Is this as to be expected? I was under the probably mistaken impression...

timtak

Ivan - Tracker Software wrote:One more trick: open the JS console in the viewer (Ctrl+J), and run the following script:
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for (i = this.numPages - 1; i >= 0; i--) this.movePage(i);

That is so cool. Thank you!
(But it does seem to resul int the "Demo" watermark")

Tim

timtak

I am sorry I am taking a year to respond (I forgot to select "Notify me when a reply is posted"). Thank you very much indeed. I have got that now and it is very useful. You are too kind. (BTW I hope one day to try and write a MS macro that converts PDF-XChange comment files into Zotero RIS...

timtak

The summarize comments function is very useful, but it seems to summarize comments, the fact of highlights, but not and not the content of highlights (only the fact that there is a highlight on a certain page). It would be nice to be able to export the highlighted text along with the page number tha...

timtak

Thank you.

timtak

I am using Firefox. Zotero creates a mini window in Firefox but I can elect to "Edit in a separate window" but each note gets created in yet another window so it is best avoided when creating many notes in my experience. I will try pressing the win key twice. Yes, that works and is definat...

timtak

Dear Paul Thank you for joining. I am not sure what "Ctrl-Tab" does... but I am pretty sure you mean 'Alt-Tab.' For reasons that are not clear to me I have to leave the browser entirely, to a program which accepts the focus of the cursor, in order to change focus between browser windows if...

timtak

I see. I guess I should suffer in silence. But once more... I understand this much, that my situation is fairly atypical. "Normally" users of your (wonderful) software and a their browser in limited cases, such as writing a blog. In that case using the methods of transferring focus that yo...

timtak

I am sorry, I don't understand. I am just suffering.
I hope that you are so kind as to relieve our suffering one day.
Tim

timtak

Thank you. I see.

I seem to need to click a seperate program (not the browser) to get back to the browser (when I am using PDF-Xchange embedded).

I will try the key sequence ALT-TAB, ALT-SHIFT-TAB but I still think it is going to drive me crazy. I often have 30 or more thinks to copy accross.

timtak

Sorry I missed your response. I forgot to tick "Notify me when a reply is posted" So, you know about this issue. It is driving me crazy. A lot of the time I want to take a few snippets of text from a pdf and store them in zotero or a browser window (e.g. blog/wiki), or I want to google for...

timtak

But, oops, I have just realised....the page numbers that PDF-XChange provides are numbered from the top of the document, and are not the document page numbers (which would be required when citing the text). I realise that it would be next to impossible for PDF-XChange to extract original page inform...

timtak

Thank you. I am slowly getting together a regex expression: replace *Page*Page > Page with nothing replace Author*[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9] with nothing replace Page: ([0-9])^13 with \1 (single trailing space) replace ^13[0-9] ^13 with nothing leaves an extra number at the end but it pretty m...

timtak

If PDF-Xchange were to export in the following format...... http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22540/breaking-a-child-note-into-multiple-child-notes/#Item_0 "You would essentially just need to prefix each note with "N1 - " and put those lines between "TY - BOOK" and "E...

timtak

I had not tried that no. It works. That is great! Is there any control over what is posted to the text file? The notes screen in zotero is pretty small, and only the first line is shown so the "Author: TT Subject: Sticky Note Date: 2012/04/12, 17:56:03" line and "Page: " is somet...

timtak

When I open a pdf using PFD-XChange embedded in the browser, I cant move the focus from PDF-XChange (e.g. if I use the PDF-XChange search function) back to my browser (e.g. to this forum text area, or to the Zotero notes pain, unless I 1) Move focus to another program (e.g. notebook) and then 2) Ope...

timtak

I like writing comments in PDF-Xchange. If I could then export them as a text file I could move them to my Zotero DB or to MS word. Perhaps if I created some generic empty pdf form (I have no idea how and my attemps to google on failed) I could import my fdf files into that. I would be grateful if i...

timtak

I also use PDFXChange viewer with zotero. They are a great team. There are a lot of Zotero users so potentially there is a large market. There is talk of creating some sort of presumably open source PDF annotation tool but Zotero development appears to be quite slow. In the meantime if there were mo...

timtak

I uninstalled Adobe viewer and I all is now well, until it manages to find a way of insinuating its viewer back into my system. For me this is a solution. Thank you very much for all your help and your great piece of software.

timtak

Thanks again. I am on a different computer now. I installed PDFXChange Viewer, and set it as the default viewer in the two ways specified above. I then I used the following method of running the console as administrator http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/run-a-command-as-administrator-from...

timtak

I also tried re-starting my computer, but that did not work either. I have Add-to Search Bar 2.0, Bookmark Favicon Changer, JavaConsole, Locale Switcher, QuickDrag, Tabutilities, and Zotero installed. I tried disabling TabUtilities since I thought that might be the only one that could have an effect...

timtak

Dear Stefan Alas not... Neither of those two techniques seems to have worked (please see images below). http://nihonbunka.com/temp/oops.jpg http://nihonbunka.com/temp/alas.jpg I restarted Firefox and I am still seeing pdfs in Adobe. Perhaps I should uninstall Adobe? I h8 Adobe with a revengence:-) Tim

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