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- Fri Jul 14, 2023 2:35 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Open multiple instances of Editor or multiple sessions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 311
Re: Open multiple instances of Editor or multiple sessions
Thanks Stefan for both answers. I was able to open four sessions at the same time using the following option: image(1).png But I'm not sure that each group of tabs (each "session") is independent of the others. If I add a PDF to one of the tab groups, can I save that tab group in a particu...
- Fri Jul 14, 2023 11:06 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Batch working with tabs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 108
Batch working with tabs
Hi,
Is it possible to add batch jobs to tabs?
For example, I have about 100 files open. I'd like to be able to select certain files (tabs) and save them in a session file.
Thanks,
François
Is it possible to add batch jobs to tabs?
For example, I have about 100 files open. I'd like to be able to select certain files (tabs) and save them in a session file.
Thanks,
François
- Fri Jul 14, 2023 11:02 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Open multiple instances of Editor or multiple sessions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 311
Open multiple instances of Editor or multiple sessions
Hi,
I often work on two or three projects at the same time.
Is it possible to open multiple instances of Editor or multiple sessions ?
Thanks,
François
I often work on two or three projects at the same time.
Is it possible to open multiple instances of Editor or multiple sessions ?
Thanks,
François
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:49 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: XREF Errors no longer detected
- Replies: 14
- Views: 817
Re: XREF Errors no longer detected
Thanks Stefan, I'll try it.
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:05 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: XREF Errors no longer detected
- Replies: 14
- Views: 817
Re: XREF Errors no longer detected
Hi, While waiting for the tool that would indicate the files in error :wink: , I would like to try the workaround proposed by Paul, but I don't understand it. :? Here is the workaround: If you get a lot of these, one approach that may reduce your work load would be to use PDF-Tools and accept all ne...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:56 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: XREF Errors no longer detected
- Replies: 14
- Views: 817
Re: XREF Errors no longer detected
Hello, I also have the same problem. However, in my case, I wrote a script that crashes if it encounters a file with this XREF table error. So I need to know in advance, before running my script, which files are in error. I don't have an external service to solve the problem as is the case for the u...
- Mon May 30, 2022 3:12 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Open Sans - bold missing
- Replies: 9
- Views: 794
Re: Open Sans - bold missing
Thanks BobM, I'll check it !
François
François
- Sun May 29, 2022 11:47 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Open Sans - bold missing
- Replies: 9
- Views: 794
Re: Open Sans - bold missing
Hi, I have the same problem ! I use PDF-XChange PRO 9.3 build 361 I use Open Sans in a Word document, then I tried to convert to PDF but bold type is not converted. This was produced via the integrated Convert to PDF button in the Word ribbon menu. I try the Font Setting from this button to incorpor...
- Wed Feb 16, 2022 1:55 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Hi Paul, Thanks a lot for your support. Thanks also to the anonymous coder who is working on the script. FYI, there is also an error catching issue. The scipt stops working sometimes due to various reasons like corrupted file, filename with non-standard characters or spaces, etc. It would be nice if...
- Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:41 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Thanks Paul for maintaining this discussion thread alive. Regarding the Asulib script, and not a real plugin, we only need a coder, not necessarily a professional one, who knows Javascript better than me and who has a little time. It's relatively easy for a coder to add some basic functionality as w...
- Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:57 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Hello SCH, Glad to see that the script continues to work with the latest version of Editor and I'm glad to see that there are some enthusiastic users. The first thing to know is that this is a script and not a plugin or an Add On, and that Tracker Software does not provide support for this script. P...
- Sat Dec 25, 2021 2:24 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Hi Paul, hi shade-cabin-hammock , Glad to see that there are still people interested in the script. I'll be taking a look at all of this in January. As I mentioned before, I am not a programmer and had to learn JavaScript from the start to write Asulib. This probably explains some bizarre "beha...
- Thu Apr 23, 2020 2:28 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2665
Re: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
Hi David, Thanks for the links. These are very detailed articles. But as I am mainly interested in tags associated with Annotations/Comments, these are therefore tools that it would not be useful to me. Especially since I only work with PDF files and I can write metadata that Recoll indexes and find...
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:03 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2665
Re: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
Hi David, Regarding Recoll, I have been using it for 3 years and it works very well on Windows. It is a bit slow on my computer, but I have a computer that is 7 years old (8GB ram, i5-2520M at 2.50 GHz). Despite everything, it is very fast when I do a search on all of my 4000 PDF files. In a few sec...
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:53 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2665
Re: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
Hi Paul, Thank you for following. You're right, it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I already use Sessions to open small sets of PDF files. Here's the problem: I am a researcher who does a lot of search across PDF files. Currently, I have about 4000 PDF files (30GB) in a single folder, and I add ...
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:54 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Tool Report file SOLVED
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1698
Re: Tool Report file SOLVED
Thanks DenisO.
François
François
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:42 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Tool Report file SOLVED
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1698
Tool Report file SOLVED
Hi,
I enabled Tool Report.
I'd like to know where I can find the Tool Report file?
Thanks,
François
I enabled Tool Report.
I'd like to know where I can find the Tool Report file?
Thanks,
François
- Thu May 30, 2019 7:39 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Editor Word plugin
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1477
Re: Editor Word plugin
Thanks Daniel, you save my day ! Usually I'm using Word revision pane instsead of balloons along the sidebar, so that's why the revision markups didn't show up in the PDF file. Maybe it can be a good idea to write a small message in Word Options tab in XChange Word plugin to tell the user to activat...
- Wed May 29, 2019 3:29 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Editor Word plugin
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1477
Re: Editor Word plugin
Hi Will, I tried XChange Standard printer, but to no avail. I also tried again the XChange plugin from within Word with a brand new document, but to no avail. When you say this is working correctly for you, can you edit the exported Word revision markups as annotations/comments within Editor? Thanks...
- Tue May 28, 2019 2:06 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Editor Word plugin
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1477
Re: Editor Word plugin
Hi Will, Here's the Word file, and the PDF file generated with XChange plugin from within Word. I'm using Word 2016 on Window 10, and Editor 8 build 331. There is 17 Word comments and 2 Insert markups in the Word file. In the PDF file, I can see the 17 Word comments in pink color, but there is no co...
- Tue May 28, 2019 9:50 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Editor Word plugin
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1477
Editor Word plugin
Hi, I have a Word document with revision markups which I'd like to keep while converting the file to PDF. From the PDF-XChange Word plugin ribbon , I enable the following option in Edit Setting -> Word Options -> Convert Revision Markups But Word Revision Markups dont't convert to annotations/commen...
- Sat May 11, 2019 5:22 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Collaboration in PDF-XChange
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4571
Re: Collaboration in PDF-XChange
Hi, Yes, I'm also interested by collaboration ! A simple and basic way would be to share documents via an existing cloud service, such as Google Drive or OneDrive, from within Editor. Several software offer this feature nowadays. The user only has to grant access to a folder of his area of the cloud...
- Sat May 11, 2019 5:07 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Thanks a lot Paul, I understand the situation. Sorry gang, you are stuck with me for the development of a basic annotation management system. I will therefore, in the coming months, continue the development of ASuLiB . You can join the discussion at the ASuLiB discussion thread: https://forum.pdf-xc...
- Thu May 09, 2019 8:28 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Hi Paul, I agree with you. Let's focus our efforts on a plugin with a small set of useful features. What is the general aim of the Tag plugin? In my opinion, it is necessary that the Tag plugin have the necessary features to stop using paper in general when doing research with PDF files, to avoid wh...
- Sat May 04, 2019 9:45 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Hi, Other ideas. Marketing No new ideas Annotating The Annotation window has to display annotation images in "dynamic" sub-window, something similar to the Editor Search pane and Comments pane. The idea is to display each sub-window with the same height, but be able to adjust the height of...
- Sat May 04, 2019 9:09 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Hi everyone, In order to help Paul convince Tracker to implement an Advanced Annotation Management (AAM) system, I propose to structure the discussion around these three themes: marketing, annotating, indexing. In order to focus well, I also propose to act as if the Advanced Annotation Management sy...
- Fri May 03, 2019 8:59 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Hi,
Here's four screencasts about Qiqqa to give an idea of a tagging system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4tzyuRd3e8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b01GdtlyOmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYa9KzpVvn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgydEDbqhxw
François
Here's four screencasts about Qiqqa to give an idea of a tagging system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4tzyuRd3e8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b01GdtlyOmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYa9KzpVvn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgydEDbqhxw
François
- Fri May 03, 2019 2:58 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Hi Paul, Thank you for your efforts to convince the developer team of the usefulness of an advanced annotation system. It is highly appreciated. It's hard to convince someone of a potential market. So, I will focus first on the potential market, then on the resistance you encounter about " the ...
- Wed May 01, 2019 7:15 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Hi standish-00, Thanks for your post. I'm looking forward to your video. As far as Editor's business model is concerned, I obviously can not speak for Tracker. If you are looking for a basic tagging system, you can try my ASuLiB script. I think it works with the free version of Editor: https://forum...
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 9:00 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Hi vee, OK, I now understand why you make a distinction between tags and subjects (and keywords, categories, etc.). WordPress has a good generic name for all those different ways to classify an item (for us, comments/annotations): taxonomy . For Citavi , there would be two taxonomies: category and k...
- Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:19 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Thank you Vee for clarification. In my last Post I mixed two topics. In fact, I understood that Tracker did not implement a Tag Pane at first (maybe never). It simply adds an additional way to group annotations via the ' Comments Pane ' and the ' Summarize Comments ' feature. I must admit that I sti...
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:18 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
What a good news ! From Paul: Currently one can group annotations (I am using 'annotations' and 'comments' synonymously here) in the comment pane by subject, the issue, as discussed in this thread, is that the entire subject is used to 'define' the groups. That's right, this is the issue. From Paul:...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:48 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Hi, Another idea. Adding Search and Replace feature in the Tag Pane to do basic clean up among tags. There could be the following options: replace in the active document, in all open documents, in documents at the bottom of the Tag Pane (which means, in documents based on tags selection above those ...
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:53 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Hi vee,
Good point.
Maybe it can be added by a moderator to the ticket: #4209: Editor FR: 'Annotations' plug-in with extended features
François
Good point.
Maybe it can be added by a moderator to the ticket: #4209: Editor FR: 'Annotations' plug-in with extended features
François
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:58 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Hi, By the way, I'm ready to write for free a help page specifically for the Tag Pane plugin. We just badly need this feature. :wink: It is an essential feature to take full advantage of PDF annotations and to go paperless, and not working with an hybrid system, half paper and half electronic. Franç...
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:45 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Thanks Sasha, I was hoping it would be relatively easy to develop a plugin with Editor SDK and an IDE. The general idea is to implement a kind of special search using a Pane. Let's name this Pane, Tag Pane . So, I'm going to use the Editor Search Pane as an analogy. The basic features would be as fo...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:48 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Hi, I have a question. I consider the idea of developing a plugin. I need some advice to get started. Since I only want to develop a plugin for Editor and I am not a professional programmer, which IDE and which programming language do you recommend? Also, is PDF-XChange Editor SDK the best choice fo...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:08 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Hi vee, Thanks to share your experience. Here's a tip while using ASuLiB: If an annotation concerns one or more projects, I insert a project ID in the Subject Propert field. For example, I use a simple digital system for each project, like 0023. Since for ASuLiB it is just a subject-tag, the project...
- Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:03 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Hi vee, Here is where I am with my research system. I work with three screens. One screen for the Search Pane (full screen), one for the XChange Editor and one for the Word document I'm working on. I need all this to do serious research and writing without printing anything. Then, since I have 1,500...
- Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:23 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
- Replies: 76
- Views: 47051
Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Hi vee, I'm not sur to understand the difference you make between 'subject' and 'tags'. From my point of view they are synonyms. As you saw ASuLiB extracts 'subjects', 'tags', 'keywords' from the Subject properties of each Annotation. And, yes, the Subject properties is the right place to add a drop...
- Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:06 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8787
Re: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Hi vee, I'm glad to hear that you managed to make ASuLiB work. I check the other thread you reference on the subject: https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=22846&p=130758#p130758 I'm glad to see I'm not alone to think it could be a good addition to Editor. As far as your request...
- Tue Jan 08, 2019 12:06 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2665
Re: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
Thanks Paul for opening a ticket.
I will pray for the development team to add this feature.
François
I will pray for the development team to add this feature.
François
- Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:40 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Basic integrity check
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1413
Re: Basic integrity check
Thanks Daniel,
If you need someone to test the feature, don't hesitate to contact me.
François
If you need someone to test the feature, don't hesitate to contact me.
François
- Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:19 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Basic integrity check
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1413
Re: Basic integrity check
Hi Paul, If I understand you properly you would like to be able to test that you can open all the files and somehow flag those that fail to open with their error message? Yes. This is exactly this. I'm working with 1,500 PDF files for now and it keeps getting bigger. These files are saved in PDF for...
- Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:02 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2665
Re: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
Hi Paul, Thanks to reply. It is not about folder or sub-folder but about subset of files. In fact, Editor already keep in the dropdown list below the option "WHERE would you like to search?" a list of all the folders in which searches have already been done. What I would like to do is to s...
- Sat Jan 05, 2019 9:55 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2665
Search Pane options for a search on a subset of files
Hi, I have a folder with 1 500 files. With the Search Pane I can search the Active Document, All Open Documents, or within a folder (and subfolders). I do not work with subfolders. I prefer to save all my PDF files in a single folder and use a reference management software (Zotero in my case) to org...
- Sat Jan 05, 2019 9:37 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Basic integrity check
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1413
Basic integrity check
Hi, I would like to know if there is a feature to perform a basic file integrity check ? Here's why: I have a folder with 1 500 files. A few times, when I open a file, Editor displays an error message. Usually, it is one of the following error messages (taken from the Knowledgebase): "Code: 0x8...
- Sat May 26, 2018 12:41 am
- Forum: Office2PDF & MS Office Addin
- Topic: You can not go back to the text from the footnote
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7692
Re: You can not go back to the text from the footnote
@Willy
@Daniel
Thanks to both of you ,
François
@Daniel
Thanks to both of you ,
François
- Thu May 24, 2018 3:08 pm
- Forum: Office2PDF & MS Office Addin
- Topic: You can not go back to the text from the footnote
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7692
Re: You can not go back to the text from the footnote
Hi, I'm using Word 2016. I'm not sure to understand what you mean by "Go to Footnote" . Is it a PDF-XChange Editor feature or a PDF standard ? Just to make sure, the problem is not with the DOCX document but with the PDF document. If it is a problem ! For my part, the little numbers I'm ta...
- Wed May 23, 2018 2:55 pm
- Forum: Office2PDF & MS Office Addin
- Topic: You can not go back to the text from the footnote
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7692
Re: You can not go back to the text from the footnote
Hi, I'm referring to the footnotes inside the resulting PDF. In the second page of this PDF there is 8 footnotes and each one has the same problem as described in my previous post. If you click on a number inside the main text, all is fine, you reach the note. But you can't come back to the main tex...