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David.P

I admit that I don't understand your undertaking, even less so after your last post

It seems to be a rather special or unique case at least.

David.P

I am doing this as a way of editing files with too many and/or redundant and/or obsolete pages. "Culling" is another word for what I am doing. Going through a stack of pages, I [...] identify deletion candidates. Then, [...] I delete the page and of course the Thumbnail. Here's how you do...

David.P

Hello all, As further background information on this issue: yesterday I had a presentation via MS Teams in which I had two groups of PDF documents open in two different PDF-XChange Editor windows. Unfortunately, significant interruptions kept occurring in the presentation because, each time when ope...

David.P

Sure Dan, of course that dialog is still present and is very useful for editing your link target in detail

David.P

Hello all,

I have not been following this entire discussion in detail, but I have a feeling that this could be a case of the result of that old feature request from 2011.

I.e. defining the target for your hyperlink not in the link target editor but in the document itself.

Cheers
David.P

David.P

Hello Stefan, Thanks for your quick reply. After looking at the file once again, I can probably send you the file by e-mail. I shall check the file carefully once more for any confidential data, and let you have it as soon as possible. Incidentally, unlike discussed above, the performance issue with...

David.P

Hello all, unfortunately I am still seeing significant performance problems with some PDFs that have layers. The issue only seems to occur once the document was edited in PDF-XChange Editor. Before editing, performance of that document is instantaneous. The layered PDF in question was probably creat...

David.P

I agree that this discussion is off-topic. But it might be a little annoying for fellow readers to break off now and continue the discussion on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/13v10p5 In fact, perhaps the discussion could be moved to some kind of "Other" category of the f...

David.P

Maybe it is because you have Whispering in the foreground. It doesn't have to be in the foreground. You can minimize it, and it will insert the text at your current cursor location in mostly any application. That's why I suggest controlling it with your favorite hotkey using Autohotkey and/or altern...

David.P

Regarding transfer of the dictation results to the target application:

David.P wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:12 am For me, Whispering.exe works in most applications with this setting:

David.P

I believe that Whisper only works with a paid OpenAI account. Not sure if it has to be the standard ChatGPT v.4 account or another type of account. At least you'll have to be able to pay for the API usage that you make using the dictation. This tool is so awesome that I haven't even looked up how mu...

David.P

Absolutely, on two different PCs. I actually used the .exe file.

David.P

Just found this YouTube video on how to install whispering correctly, so I'll try that later when I've got time... How exciting :))) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFqbY_rmEk Haha yes, that video by Kevin Stratvert. That's also where I came from in my desperate search to finally use the Whisper s...

David.P

That looks like an awesome sophisticated tool. I use a somewhat simple 'brute force' search script snippet: ;########################### ; Look up "Selected Expression" in Google ;########################### ^Space:: ; Press ALT and SPACE send ^c ; copy current selection WinActivate, - Goo...

David.P

Yeah I'm using Ditto as well.

Incidentally, my Windows clipboard just completely crashed for some reason, had to reboot...

David.P

Sorry to hear that. Whispering.exe works for me also when the browser extension is deactivated. Maybe there is some issue with transferring the API key correctly via clipboard? image.png What is this cool color-coded search extension called? Is that Isear? Exactly. It's worth gold IMHO. I just hope ...

David.P

Yes! OpenAI's Whisper is more of an intelligent interpreter or a human secretary than a dictation program. It even cuts out small duplications like, 'erm corrections', out of the dictation result. Not to mention the near-perfect automatic punctuation :shock: If you are a Capslock hater like most peo...

David.P

For me, Whispering.exe works in most applications with this setting:

David.P

MedBooster.

All the more reason why Whispering would be the suitable application, because it understands all these languages, without the user having to change any settings, usually even directly in the same speech utterance.

David.P

Yes, Stefan, and it seems that MedBooster even speaks all those languages, to some extent at least

David.P

edit: Whispering ... even when using my AP log-in for ChatGPT, it gives me errors, or does not record at all. Too bad that Whispering doesn't work for you. It can be indeed a bit tricky to set up. If you assign a hotkey, you may have to restart Whispering before the hotkey will work. However, I hav...

David.P

I believe that there is a related feature request here : 1) Snap to right angles for callouts When adjusting the "arm" of a callout, I would like to be able to use the shift or ctrl key to constrain movement of the control points to right (or 45 degree) angles . I notice you can do this wi...

David.P

Some more speech to text tools that work system-wide in Windows: Lilyspeech (based on Google Speech API) lilyspeech.com Whispering (based on ChatGPT Speech API) github.com/braden-w/whispering/releases The latter is based on the best speech recognition engine currently available by far (requiring a C...

David.P

If you use that exact command, it will select all shapes in the entire document with just one click. When you're lucky (i.e. when there are no shapes in the document that you'll want to keep), then this should be what you are after.

David.P

With some luck and depending on what else you have in your document that you'd want to keep, there is a chance that you could succeed with this command (that also can be found in the "Contents" pane behind the gear icon button):

David.P

Hello all, To my knowledge, a link cannot contain an image, or even formatting (other than the link border format). Here, that link is probably placed over the background, which is why the background may be difficult to select. In other words, the link itself is probably not the unwanted background ...

David.P

Okay, I found the solution here: https://answers.acrobatusers.com/How-call-document-level-script-button-q232330.aspx Question How do i call a document level script using a button? I am trying to call a document level script using a button. The script works assigned to the button mouse up action, but...

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, I am having difficulties calling up a JavaScript that I have entered under "Document Properties" ➔ "JavaScript ", via a button in the document. I have named/titled the document level JavaScript "MyDocumentLevelJavaScript". The butto...

David.P

Thank you, Dan. I hope that there is room for improvement regarding the selection behavior of superimposed links and highlights. Today I had the usual difficulties selecting highlights in order to add comment text to them, because links were also attached to the same text. Your observation about the...

David.P

Thank you very much, Paul.

Wow, what an incredible fast action.

I'm looking forward to using this feature soon!

Best regards
David

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, in a document with multiple layers, is it possible to select only elements that are on one of the currently visible layers, for example in order to move them? Especially in cases where (many) elements from different layers overlap each other? Also, (how) is it p...

David.P

Okay thank you very much, Paul.

Let us remove the urgency: I will use a button without icons for the time being, as this way everything works as intended with all copies of the button.

Thank you once more,

Best regards
David

David.P

Attached is a sample file that shows the problem. The main button changes its icon with every click. The two copies of the main button should also change their icon at the same time. They do so when the file is opened in Acr0bat, for example, but not in PDF-XChange Editor. I hope it's just an operat...

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, either this is a serious issue, or I am doing something wrong here (I hope it's the latter). I have copies of a button (form field) on all pages of my PDF. Then, I'm trying to change the icon of the button using JavaScript. To my knowledge, the expected behavior...

David.P

Hello all,

I agree, and bear with me posting that attachment another time (see items #2 - #3 with respect to the Links issue).

Best regards
David.P

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David.P

Hi all, there is a related discussion here that shows further non-favorable side effects of the new highlight design, see also #2, #3 and #4 in the screenshot and attachment: A Small Suggestion about Highlighting and Copying Best regards, David image.png Text Selection with Highlights and Links.pdf

David.P

I often find that I am unable to select text that is behind a highlight, even when holding the Shift key: Are you running the latest build at the moment? I ask because the select text tool now has a special handling for highlights specifically, you do not even need to hold shift, when clicking abov...

David.P

Many thanks Stefan. Perhaps the lack of this option in that third place (manual scanning in PDF-XChange Editor) was just a small oversight.

Best regards
David

David.P

Just a quick note to say that the recovery feature has been working flawlessly for me lately

Thanks for the hard work and for the continuous improvements!

Best regards
David

David.P

Yes Stefan, the autorotation option is available in these two places, but it does not seem to be available in the normal scanning dialog of PDF-XChange Editor:

David.P

Hello all, in order to avoid having to use the complex methods for external link bulk-editing as discussed above, here's a friendly reminder as to whether ↓this feature could be discussed with the devs another time? Bulk-Edit Link Actions.png In the case shown, instead of 150 mouse clicks, I would o...

David.P

Thank you Stefan,

sorry, probably my post is not exactly in the proper sub-forum, as my above screenshot shows the Scanning dialog option in PDF-XChange Editor, not in PDF-Tools.

It seems that an option for auto-rotation does not exist over there, or does it?

Best regards
David

David.P

Phil, are you sure you want to make a "stamp" from the copied piece? You can also just switch to the hand tool after copying, and paste the copied item. It will then be inserted as a comment element. It can be set to partially transparent then, and when you like the positioning, you remove...

David.P

Hello all, I am also wondering about this, as my documents do not seem to be rotated automatically after scanning. Shouldn't this setting in the scan settings ensure that text recognition automatically rotates documents after scanning: image.png Even pure text pages that are clearly rotated by 90 or...

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, I have been noticing for some time that PDF-XChange Editor crashes on some documents as soon as the page size is changed from the existing page size A4 to "Letter"with the following settings. image.png I have attached a document where this occurs. Lo a...

David.P

Hello all,

in the meantime, try the awesome Opera browser for [vectorial] Web to PDF conversion. Just right click in the page and choose "Save as PDF".

Enjoy!

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David.P

Thanks for your information Stefan, I had tried the script initially and it seemed to have worked. I just can't remember for sure if I had already uncommented the lines in question or not. Anyway, after reviewing the code several times, I believe that the script can really only fully work if at leas...

David.P

I continue to have no suitable words for the fantastic work Mathew is doing here on this feature. I hope to be able to contribute something meaningful to this soon, but still need some preparation to do so.

Kind regards
David

David.P

Hello all, I am trying to put this script into practice. But it can't even work this way, can it? The essential part that removes line breaks within paragraphs is commented out: ; Replace a single newline with a space ;StringReplace Clipboard, Clipboard, %A_Space% `r`n, %A_Space%, All ;StringReplace...

David.P

The only way to do this is to duplicate the object to the next page and then to arrange it such that it seems to be the object from the previous page spilling over to this page.

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