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Is there a way to do this via PDF Tools instead?

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Minor issue, but every time I update Editor Pro the desktop icons of the whole suite get installed again, then I delete them from my desktop until the next update.

Happy new year!

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I just checked Adobe Reader DC 19 and it still does pre-caching in the last reading direction, just like it did for ages already. Pre-caching was not a resource hog years ago when CPUs and RAM were less powerful and it surely is not a resource problem today. Pre-caching the next (few) page(s) is a s...

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Try to enable and disable mouse-trails via Windows mouse settings, this switches GPU hardware acceleration of drawing the mouse-pointer. Does it make a difference?

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Absolutely +1.

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It's been some time since I sent in all the logs you needed. Will the next version of Editor include fixes for these issues? I also noticed another scan related problem: Editor allows me to chose DPI settings that are not supported my my scanner (driver), like 150 DPI. As a result I get a scan of ve...

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I see. Thanks for the information, it's well appreciated. Are there any plans to allow user preferences for changing Editor's own display resampling (is it simple bilinear at this point)? What I mean is the resampling done in order to display images at different zoom settings and when resizing is do...

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Thank you, but I am confused by this answer. When I use Editor to resize a page from Letter to DIN A4 without keeping the original aspect ratio then the printer driver is not involved. Document -> More for pages -> Resize page does that without printing,

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Small hint: I set one thumb button of my mouse to act as CTRL button. That way I don't need to reach for the keyboard for zooming or selection of multiple items. When not enough buttons are available then this is even more important to me than the "Back" button usually associated with thumb buttons....

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This Autohotkey script might give you something to start with:

https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic ... c87#p31645

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What kind of resampling is used when images are resized to a different aspect ratio? Simple bilinear, bikubic or anything else? Or does the "scaling coefficient" handle this situation as well, with different scales for horizontal and vertical sizes?

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More like several years. What you can do is to manually increase the cache size of Editor and then keep the right arrow pressed on your keyboard. This will (pre)render all pages into the cache. Unfortunately this cache is not saved to disk, not even as an option, so you have to do it all over again ...

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Thanks for the detailed explanation, Ivan. Only today did I finally understand it correctly, which is entirely my own fault.

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Since I did a lot of print testing I was sure that I saw grayscale print previews lately. And indeed there are two ways to get grayscale print previews. - Use Editor's own "Advanced Print Options" (More button). - Use a Postscript printer driver. While both the original PCL6 and the universal PCL6 d...

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Pretty please implement an option to *disable* Editor's color management until you finally fix it for good. We users of wide gamut displays currently have to jump through several hoops to either get somewhat properly saturated screen display or proper printing. It is much easier to do this in Acroba...

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I suspect this will be part of the whole necessary color management overhaul and may thus take long to be implemented?!

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I keep being flabbergasted how low a priority all Windows based PDF viewers put on more solid search results. Editor already is among the faster of the bunch. But the lack of indexing and the even worse lack of good search result presentations makes it look as if PDF search was not an important fun...

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One of the many free bulk rename tools that come with a GUI and are easy to install (yet not necessarily easy to use):

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

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Thanks Ivan, applying manual changes would be even less convenient than simply closing the second print dialog. I mostly wondered if there was an automated way to handle this problem, but obviously this is more of a GMail/Firefox issue anyway. At least we know now that there are two JS print command...

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I keep being flabbergasted how low a priority all Windows based PDF viewers put on more solid search results. Editor already is among the faster of the bunch. But the lack of indexing and the even worse lack of good search result presentations makes it look as if PDF search was not an important func...

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I prepared two files for demonstration: - Print_JS is how GMail sends the file via Firefox. It includes the "DoPrint" JS command line I posted earlier and thus makes Editor open two print dialogs in a row. - Print_no_JS is has the "DoPrint" JS command removed via Document Properties and thus makes E...

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I don't think that any print command is sent by Firefox. That is because I saved the file locally after removing the JS command and it still opens a (single) print dialog when I then open it locally. So it has to be somewhere within the file, on top of the already removed JS command (removed from Do...

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If I want to keep Editor as default application for handling PDF links in Firefox then the only workarounds are to either save the file and then hit print manually or to cancel the second print dialog popup. The latter is more convenient and what I did all the time anyway. I just asked to see if any...

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When I use Chrome and set it up to to save PDF files instead of viewing them internally then the print button only saves the temporary file, which resulting in the print dialog only opening once when opened in Editor.

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I started Firefox without any addons, but the same thing happens, so it's not an addon thing.

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It's Editor's print dialog and it comes up a second time after I closed the first (either printing or cancelling). I just tried it using a simple PDF consisting of a single scanned page. Turns out that the actual printing is done via JS anyway, seems that GMail recreates the PDF including a JS print...

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I don't think it happens with specific PDF files, at least it happened with any PDF I tried to directly print out of GMail instead of just saving it (which also automatically opens it in Editor, but without the printing dialog). I don't think I opened any PDF files with JS at all yet. Could even be ...

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Hello, this is not an Editor specific problem, but maybe Editor can offer a solution? When I click on a PDF attachment in GMail using Firefox I first get a preview and then can choose to either download or print the file. If I choose to print then the file is downloaded using a temporary filename an...

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Thanks for the explanation. So for proper screenshots (as in pixels on screen) I better use external tools and for proper dimensions (as in measurements) I use Editor's tool.

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And then there are also several free PDF printer products that are all based on Ghostscript. My current personal favorite ends with a number in its name.

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Thanks for the explanation. The behavior at fixed Snapshot dpi settings makes sense, but I cannot quite follow the automatic behavior. What exactly "keep 'metric dimension' of the image" mean? Currently all I see is that I get a snapshot at a different zoom/dpi level than what I see on screen, which...

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Windows scaling set to 120% (115 dpi according to Editor) and Editor set to 96 dpi (due to some earlier testing I forgot to reset this).

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- deleted by myself due to stupidity - ;) :o Yeah, recompression should be better than reprinting because with the former, you have better control of image size and dpi. Also, sometimes you might want to keep things like bookmarks, hyperlinks etc. (which doesn't work with reprinting), but still cha...

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I noticed that XChange Standard offer "Text Image Data" while Editor does not. Isn't this the method that caused issues of replaced scanned numbers on Xerox copiers?

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I noticed that the "Recompress Image" option is affected by "Undo", but not by "Redo". I assume this is a small bug?!

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Hello, I just noticed an unexpected behavior of the Snapshot tool. It seems to do snapshots at different dpi settings than what the onscreen display is using. Here is a comparison of Editor's Snapshot tool vs. Windows Snipping tool doing screenshots at the very same Editor zoom setting. Editor's Sna...

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How can I convert multiple images to monochrome (+JBIG2) at once? - The "Recompress Image" option in the content tool allows to convert images to grayscale, monochrome or b/w, but only one image at a time. - The "Save as Optimized" does not seem to offer any such conversion option at all. - PDF Tool...

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Good news, thank you!

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What exactly is not acceptable? That it does not behave like you expect or that a bug may be present that is currently investigated and may thus be fixed in the future?

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Both the 32 bit and the portable version can scan 6 pages (12 sides) using the Twain 32 bit driver, only the 64 bit version of Editor is stuck at 5 pages (10 sides). So this is a conflict between 64 bit Editor and 32 bit Twain. On a side-note: The portable version wrongly identifies two additional T...

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I finally found time to check this. 1. Assuming that: - you are still using 64-bit PDF-X Editor of build 326.1; - you use 32-bit TWAIN driver for your scanner, please try to reproduce the issue with renamed/deleted twaindsm32.dll in the Editor installation directory ("%ProgramFiles%\Tracker Software...

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What is the consensus on this? Most of the documents I regularly use contain these "Multiply" layers that Editor cannot deal with but other viewers can.

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I just realized that you meant the resolution test chart. It's the ISO 12233 chart, you can download a PDF version here:

https://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westi ... chart.html

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Just use the Line tool in an empty document. Or use the sunstar from the test document in the following thread. https://forum.tracker-software.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=31457 You can see how stroke adjust (properly) changes the straight horizontal and vertical lines to 1 pixel width while all other l...

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I see. I tried to set Multiply blend mode for the "T" text and indeed this turns off Cleartype rendering in Acrobat. That being said, most of the problematic PDF files I use Editor for are rendered using Cleartype in Acrobat and the other PDF viewers. So if Editor learns to render Cleartype when a "...

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I am able to reproduce this. Do you use "Microsoft ICM" for color management in Editor? Side note: if you open the "bug" PDF file in Acrobat it says "Insufficient image data" and uses transparency instead of black. If you try to grab one of the transparent images an error pops up: "Insufficient data...

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Side by side view does not offer to scroll both windows at the same time, though. This would help with manual comparison until a more automatic comparison tool is available.

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When you write that Acrobat does "not use Cleartype always" I assume you mean that it uses its own type of sub-pixel rendering?! Because my example screenshot clearly show that Acrobat does use sub-pixel rendering for the font, just more subtle (less intensive red/blue). Or do you mean that Acrobat ...

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According to a discussion from last year this is due to some kind of transparencies being present anywhere on the page (not necessarily anywhere close to the affected text). Once such a transparency is present Editor seems to switch off Cleartype. I own one PDF file were in double page view one page...

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I am confused, Ivan. What do you mean by "renders e absolutely the same"? It's very obvious in David's example (and my Cleartype examples in a different thread) that "e" characters are rendered very different in Acrobat, with the "-" line being placed lower (and being anti-aliased in David's example...

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