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by Timur Born
Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:37 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Thumbnail improvements
Replies: 20
Views: 863

Re: Thumbnail improvements

Thanks for looking at this. What happens is *not* that the side-panel or thumbnail size isn't restored. What happens is that upon restart Editor remembers that it doesn't like to display partially visible thumbnail squares (including free space to the right). If the thumbnail pane is not wide enough...
by Timur Born
Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:18 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: preload , prrender, precache full pdf setting?
Replies: 45
Views: 6622

Re: preload , prrender, precache full pdf setting?

Thanks. This surprises me. In the past there has always been the determined stance that this would waste user HDD/SDD space!?
by Timur Born
Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:16 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Thumbnail improvements
Replies: 20
Views: 863

Re: Thumbnail improvements

It would already help if Editor didn't insist on not displaying the 2nd row until all of the square fits in. One workaround is to first resize the thumbnail window until the 2nd row is displayed and then resize it back a bit. Editor will still show both rows then. But unfortunately that only works u...
by Timur Born
Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:20 am
Forum: PDF-XChange (End Users FR)
Topic: Printing by logical page number
Replies: 5
Views: 500

Re: Printing by logical page number

While logical page numbers show up in search now they did not find their way into the printing dialog yet, correct?
by Timur Born
Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:04 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Automatic Fillable Form Field Detection
Replies: 29
Views: 5479

Re: Automatic Fillable Form Field Detection

Great stuff, thanks for that! :)
by Timur Born
Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:03 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Improved search results
Replies: 11
Views: 833

Re: Improved search results

I am not convinced that allowing a double-click (or modifier+click) on a thumbnail search result would add to the complexity of the search results pane. It surely would beat this in convenience:
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by Timur Born
Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:58 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: preload , prrender, precache full pdf setting?
Replies: 45
Views: 6622

Re: preload , prrender, precache full pdf setting?

A full document pre-rendering - or rather background rendering after opening - would have its uses for sure. Like faster initial searches. Personally I am still a big friend of having a prerender cache file on disk/SSD, similar to GPU shader caches of games. Some PDF files *never* change, so renderi...
by Timur Born
Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:54 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Thumbnail improvements
Replies: 20
Views: 863

Re: Thumbnail improvements

TrackerSupp-Daniel wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:13 pm... the search pane has been updated to show the logical page numbers:
Yes, I noticed that. Thanks a lot for this change, it makes working PDF files easier that contain a cover page (or even more leading pages). :)
by Timur Born
Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:51 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Thumbnail improvements
Replies: 20
Views: 863

Re: Thumbnail improvements

41% of the space is empty due to thumbnails following a strictly square box format while most pages are either portrait or landscape. image.png The second thumbnail row only appears once the window has been dragged wide enough to accommodate not only for the divider space + thumbnail, but also for t...
by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:59 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: preload , prrender, precache full pdf setting?
Replies: 45
Views: 6622

Re: preload , prrender, precache full pdf setting?

Doesn't other software pre-render just a number of pages ahead (last direction of reading).
by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Improved search results
Replies: 11
Views: 833

Re: Improved search results

1.5 years later I still have to move eyes and mouse from upper right to lower left in order to get to the destination of a bookmark found in search. Also no other improvements to searching large PDF files more conveniently. My maintenance plan ends in 3 days and I will not renew it for the time being.
by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Thumbnail improvements
Replies: 20
Views: 863

Re: Thumbnail improvements

This one still irks me the most:
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by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:49 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Wasted space in search results
Replies: 5
Views: 303

Re: Wasted space in search results

Unfortunately still a lot of space wasted by that icon plus indentation:
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by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:37 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Automatic Fillable Form Field Detection
Replies: 29
Views: 5479

Re: Automatic Fillable Form Field Detection

What is the current status on this? I cannot find an example PDF at the moment to test, so I wonder if it has been implemented yet?
by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:33 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: preload , prrender, precache full pdf setting?
Replies: 45
Views: 6622

Re: preload , prrender, precache full pdf setting?

No news on this, maybe for v11?
by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:32 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Auto remove broken links from history
Replies: 15
Views: 2256

Re: Auto remove broken links from history

I mean, the button to clear this up manually already exists, so the function is already there. What we need is an option to make it run automatically on exit.
by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:29 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Tab groups [Suggestion]
Replies: 51
Views: 3780

Re: Tab groups [Suggestion]

I am still using the third party software "Groupy" to group tabs by windows. Any news on native support for tab groups?
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by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:27 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Navigate Backward and Forward
Replies: 70
Views: 22581

Re: Navigate Backward and Forward

What's the current status of this? I did a quick test with multiple documents open in one window (tabs) and had back and saw *both* behaviors at the same time: back and forward being restricted to a single document/tab and at the same time switching between two other documents, based on which docume...
by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Copy And Paste Without Linebreaks
Replies: 32
Views: 3998

Re: Copy And Paste Without Linebreaks

Sorry, I haven't watched the forum for quite some time as the topics I am mostly invested in didn't see any changes in PDF X-Change anyway. I am currently going through some topics before my maintenance plan expires in 3 days. I often use the AHK script to copy & pasting paragraphs from PDF to G...
by Timur Born
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:18 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Default Page Zoom missing "Fit Height"
Replies: 9
Views: 423

Re: Default Page Zoom missing "Fit Height"

Any news on this?
by Timur Born
Sat Dec 10, 2022 11:00 am
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Extracting images out of an "interactive" PDF
Replies: 52
Views: 11148

Re: Extracting images out of an "interactive" PDF

Yes, finally, thank you! :D Added an option for extraction of images from form fields and comments in the 'Extract Images' action. I don't see the option and it also does not popup when the dialog is enabled during extraction?! But the extraction of the images seems to work as default. So thanks aga...
by Timur Born
Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:42 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Thumbnail improvements
Replies: 20
Views: 863

Re: Thumbnail improvements

Great, thank you. Having it everywhere makes for a more consistent experience. Now we also need it for the print and page extraction dialogs (often stumble over the latter). :-)
by Timur Born
Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:06 am
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Extracting images out of an "interactive" PDF
Replies: 52
Views: 11148

Re: Extracting images out of an "interactive" PDF

I don't know about PDF24, but I mentioned other solutions that also work with these kind of PDF files. And it is at least disappointing that the only solution I pay for is not able to extract images that multiple free solutions are able to. So for me as end-user it does not matter so much why you do...
by Timur Born
Thu Oct 06, 2022 8:34 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Thumbnail improvements
Replies: 20
Views: 863

Re: Thumbnail improvements

Edit: I only just noticed that thumbnails do use logical page numbers, but the search results do not. So use the suggestion for search results (and everything else) instead to remove these kind of UI confusions. This keeps getting in the way for documents that reference page numbers within their ow...
by Timur Born
Thu Oct 06, 2022 8:28 am
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Extracting images out of an "interactive" PDF
Replies: 52
Views: 11148

Re: Extracting images out of an "interactive" PDF

Two months and an update later, any news on this? It would literally be the only thing I need PDF Tools for. :-)
by Timur Born
Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:43 pm
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Extracting images out of an "interactive" PDF
Replies: 52
Views: 11148

Re: Extracting images out of an "interactive" PDF

Thanks for looking into it. :)
by Timur Born
Thu Aug 11, 2022 9:08 am
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Extracting images out of an "interactive" PDF
Replies: 52
Views: 11148

Re: Extracting images out of an "interactive" PDF

Well over 5 years after my initial report of PDF-Tools not being able to extract images out of these PDF files the last update unfortunately still offers no improvements in this regard. Meanwhile at least half a dozen other tools (and likely more) are able to extract images out of the same files. :(
by Timur Born
Tue Jul 19, 2022 5:52 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Document comparison feedback
Replies: 30
Views: 2451

Re: Document comparison feedback

Indeed. Quite useful to get rid of headers, footers and page numbers.
by Timur Born
Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:32 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Document comparison feedback
Replies: 30
Views: 2451

Re: Document comparison feedback

The old DiffPDF software allows to exclude border (in mm). This allows me to exclude all the headers/footers that are different on every single page of my 642 pages document.

It also allows to compare protected files.
by Timur Born
Sat Jul 16, 2022 7:15 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Tab groups [Suggestion]
Replies: 51
Views: 3780

Re: Tab groups [Suggestion]

I can think of some use cases for searching all tabs of an active window = tab group. So +1 from me for that.
by Timur Born
Fri Jul 15, 2022 4:08 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Tab groups [Suggestion]
Replies: 51
Views: 3780

Re: Tab groups [Suggestion]

it is that when you click a search result when having searched through "all open documents" and that document is in another window that is another Groupy-"Tab" it switches for a second, but then returns to the window you were in. The search results sadly don't appear in the othe...
by Timur Born
Fri Jul 15, 2022 4:05 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Tab groups [Suggestion]
Replies: 51
Views: 3780

Re: Tab groups [Suggestion]

MedBooster wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:09 pm Doesn't that shortcut do the exact same thing as Alt+F4 ?
Not for me. ALT-F4 only closes the single active window, leaving all others open. ALT-Q closes *all* windows and restores them on next start (if enabled).
by Timur Born
Thu Jul 07, 2022 3:51 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Editor as Windows preview handler
Replies: 8
Views: 743

Re: Editor as Windows preview handler

Very good. Thank you.
by Timur Born
Thu Jul 07, 2022 8:15 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Editor as Windows preview handler
Replies: 8
Views: 743

Re: Editor as Windows preview handler

I don't know if this is intentional, but I noticed that the Editor preview handler renders pages asynchronous while the Acrobat one renders them synchronous.
by Timur Born
Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:04 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Tab groups [Suggestion]
Replies: 51
Views: 3780

Re: Tab groups [Suggestion]

Hint to other multi-windows users: Use CTRL-Q to quit Editor. It will then close all windows at once and restore all windows and tabs at startup (if you are using the "Restore last session when application starts" option). If you are using the upper right X to close single windows it takes...
by Timur Born
Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:54 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Tab groups [Suggestion]
Replies: 51
Views: 3780

Re: Tab groups [Suggestion]

The compromise should be useful for people wanting to search "In All Open Documents" while still being restricted to only search documents of a single window. Personally I hardly ever search all open documents, because I need results from specific documents (hence why I want separate resul...
by Timur Born
Wed Jul 06, 2022 6:42 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Tab groups [Suggestion]
Replies: 51
Views: 3780

Re: Tab groups [Suggestion]

OK - so we all agree that currently searches go across Windows, the current Feature Request is for an option to limit the search to specific Tab Groups when they arrive. No, my searches "in active document" do *not* go across windows (installed Editor version) and this is exactly what I n...
by Timur Born
Wed Jul 06, 2022 6:32 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Editor as Windows preview handler
Replies: 8
Views: 743

Re: Editor as Windows preview handler

Hi Stefan, thanks for the hint. Setting all handlers to Editor worked fine. Preview Handler information: GUID : {9B68BDF7-95F9-4A1F-851C-27D822F8E3E9} Description : PDF-XChange Preview Handler Module name : C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\Shell Extensions\XCShInfo.x64.dll Localserver : Note: Previ...
by Timur Born
Wed Jul 06, 2022 12:32 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Editor as Windows preview handler
Replies: 8
Views: 743

Re: Editor as Windows preview handler

I used a small application to check the currently active preview handler for PDF files. How do I change this to Editor? Preview Handler information: GUID : {3A84F9C2-6164-485C-A7D9-4B27F8AC009E} Description : PDF Preview Handler Module name : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\103.0.1...
by Timur Born
Wed Jul 06, 2022 12:30 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Editor as Windows preview handler
Replies: 8
Views: 743

Editor as Windows preview handler

Hello. Is there a way to make sure Editor is used as Windows Explorer's preview handler? Judging by its speed it seems that currently Editor is not used on my system for preview. I can also make previews of PDFs crash, so I would like to make sure it's not Editor at work. https://i.imgur.com/9I66DeM...
by Timur Born
Tue Jul 05, 2022 11:40 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Tab groups [Suggestion]
Replies: 51
Views: 3780

Re: Tab groups [Suggestion]

I am using the installed version and searching "in active document" gives separate results per window for me. This is wanted behavior for me, because I open multiple different books where I only want search result per book. Personally I would prefer to see search results change per tab whe...
by Timur Born
Mon Jul 04, 2022 6:29 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Tab groups [Suggestion]
Replies: 51
Views: 3780

Re: Tab groups [Suggestion]

Most preferable solution would be (optional) per tab search results, just like we get per tab bookmarks, thumbnails and everything. Per group search results would at least help others get more search comfort, personally I would might stay with the Groupy solution, depending on the implementation of ...
by Timur Born
Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:13 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Tab groups [Suggestion]
Replies: 51
Views: 3780

Re: Tab groups [Suggestion]

Search results are per window when you search in the current tab/active document. So I search in one tab/active document of one window and get the results for that tab/document. When I switch tabs in the same window then unfortunately Editor keeps displaying the results for the old tab. Because of t...
by Timur Born
Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:11 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Adobe Acrobat DC Can Print File, PDF-XChange Cannot - Hangs at 20% across various printers.
Replies: 7
Views: 709

Re: Adobe Acrobat DC Can Print File, PDF-XChange Cannot - Hangs at 20% across various printers.

I cannot reproduce this anymore, even after specifically making sure that Windows quick boot and Editor's disk cache features are disabled. What I noticed, though, is that printing the file "as image" in Editor is tremendously faster for both preview and printing and the print size is less...
by Timur Born
Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:01 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Adobe Acrobat DC Can Print File, PDF-XChange Cannot - Hangs at 20% across various printers.
Replies: 7
Views: 709

Re: Adobe Acrobat DC Can Print File, PDF-XChange Cannot - Hangs at 20% across various printers.

Once Editor created print previews (full size and fit to margin) and printed the document for the first time everything is just as fast as in Acrobat. This even seems to remain true when I close/reopen Editor afterwards. Strange stuff. Will test restarting the PC next and report back.
by Timur Born
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:59 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Adobe Acrobat DC Can Print File, PDF-XChange Cannot - Hangs at 20% across various printers.
Replies: 7
Views: 709

Re: Adobe Acrobat DC Can Print File, PDF-XChange Cannot - Hangs at 20% across various printers.

The print size is nearly the same for both Editor and Acrobat. But Editor is completely overwhelmed already in the print preview part while Acrobat can handle the same document quite easily.
by Timur Born
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:53 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Improved search results
Replies: 11
Views: 833

Re: Improved search results

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