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by francois maurice
Fri Jul 14, 2023 2:35 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Open multiple instances of Editor or multiple sessions
Replies: 3
Views: 310

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...
by francois maurice
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
by francois maurice
Fri Jul 14, 2023 11:02 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Open multiple instances of Editor or multiple sessions
Replies: 3
Views: 310

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
by francois maurice
Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:49 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: XREF Errors no longer detected
Replies: 14
Views: 802

Re: XREF Errors no longer detected

Thanks Stefan, I'll try it.
by francois maurice
Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:05 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: XREF Errors no longer detected
Replies: 14
Views: 802

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...
by francois maurice
Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:56 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: XREF Errors no longer detected
Replies: 14
Views: 802

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...
by francois maurice
Mon May 30, 2022 3:12 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Open Sans - bold missing
Replies: 9
Views: 793

Re: Open Sans - bold missing

Thanks BobM, I'll check it !

François
by francois maurice
Sun May 29, 2022 11:47 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Open Sans - bold missing
Replies: 9
Views: 793

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...
by francois maurice
Wed Feb 16, 2022 1:55 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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...
by francois maurice
Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:41 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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...
by francois maurice
Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:57 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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...
by francois maurice
Sat Dec 25, 2021 2:24 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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...
by francois maurice
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: 2661

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...
by francois maurice
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: 2661

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...
by francois maurice
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: 2661

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 ...
by francois maurice
Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:54 pm
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Tool Report file SOLVED
Replies: 3
Views: 1692

Re: Tool Report file SOLVED

Thanks DenisO.

François
by francois maurice
Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:42 pm
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Tool Report file SOLVED
Replies: 3
Views: 1692

Tool Report file SOLVED

Hi,

I enabled Tool Report.

I'd like to know where I can find the Tool Report file?

Thanks,

François
by francois maurice
Thu May 30, 2019 7:39 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Editor Word plugin
Replies: 7
Views: 1468

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...
by francois maurice
Wed May 29, 2019 3:29 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Editor Word plugin
Replies: 7
Views: 1468

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...
by francois maurice
Tue May 28, 2019 2:06 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Editor Word plugin
Replies: 7
Views: 1468

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...
by francois maurice
Tue May 28, 2019 9:50 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Editor Word plugin
Replies: 7
Views: 1468

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...
by francois maurice
Sat May 11, 2019 5:22 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Collaboration in PDF-XChange
Replies: 15
Views: 4543

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...
by francois maurice
Sat May 11, 2019 5:07 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 46999

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...
by francois maurice
Thu May 09, 2019 8:28 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 46999

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...
by francois maurice
Sat May 04, 2019 9:45 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 46999

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...
by francois maurice
Sat May 04, 2019 9:09 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 46999

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...
by francois maurice
Fri May 03, 2019 2:58 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 46999

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 ...
by francois maurice
Wed May 01, 2019 7:15 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 46999

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...
by francois maurice
Sat Jan 26, 2019 9:00 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 46999

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...
by francois maurice
Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:19 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 46999

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...
by francois maurice
Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:18 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 46999

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:...
by francois maurice
Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:48 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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 ...
by francois maurice
Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:53 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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
by francois maurice
Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:58 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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...
by francois maurice
Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:45 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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...
by francois maurice
Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:48 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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...
by francois maurice
Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:08 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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...
by francois maurice
Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:03 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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...
by francois maurice
Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:23 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 46999

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...
by francois maurice
Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:06 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Introducing ASuLiB - Annotation Subject List Builder
Replies: 43
Views: 8769

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...
by francois maurice
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: 2661

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
by francois maurice
Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:40 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Basic integrity check
Replies: 5
Views: 1409

Re: Basic integrity check

Thanks Daniel,

If you need someone to test the feature, don't hesitate to contact me.

François
by francois maurice
Mon Jan 07, 2019 7:19 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Basic integrity check
Replies: 5
Views: 1409

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...
by francois maurice
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: 2661

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...
by francois maurice
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: 2661

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...
by francois maurice
Sat Jan 05, 2019 9:37 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Basic integrity check
Replies: 5
Views: 1409

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...
by francois maurice
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: 7663

Re: You can not go back to the text from the footnote

@Willy
@Daniel

Thanks to both of you ,

François
by francois maurice
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: 7663

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...
by francois maurice
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: 7663

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...