PDF XChange Forum

Timur Born

However, the issue with using Groupy is that if you use the search tool and you have two PDF xce windows on top of each other, the search tool is not able to switch to the correct window. Which is why I am using extra windows + Groupy to begin with. I want to be able to get search results for speci...

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I will come back to this after another 10 years then.

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Like I wrote before, it's not too important for me. Personally I usually compare left vs. right and have a hard time remembering where I put the "old" one vs. the "new" one. But there are bigger problems to be tackled.

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Personally I would prefer just left and right, so that I don't have to remember or look up which is which after not using the comparison for some time. But it's not very important.

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As mentioned before, even the simple option to directly jump to bookmarks destinations from search results would help minimize eye-movement, mouse-movement and clicking. And sorting by number of hits per page/paragraph could also be useful. Here is a search for the word "prone": https://i....

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Thank you. Filtering by exact match (with some means to reset) would be very helpful in cases like this example.

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When you improve filtering then please allow to ignore results. In my sample document I have a simple date change four times on every page out of over 640 pages. Since I currently cannot filter/ignore that it has hard to find any meaningful changes at all.

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10 years ago was the first time I suggested to implement search results sorting/filtering. We are 5 days short of a proper anniversary, but a more current discussion is a welcome reason to dig this up again: Hello everyone! For me PDF-XChange Viewer beats about every other Windows based PDF browser...

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I got that point, but I obviously disagree, hence why I suggested to change it. The current implementation is "limiting" and I would like to see an "enabling" implementation instead. It could be implemented via double-click or via modifier-click (like holding CTRL). Hardly anyone...

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please allow bookmark search results to be (double?)clicked to go to the bookmark's respective page directly from said search result. the request was rejected with the explanation: The results list navigates to results only, not to the places pointed by found bookmarks. sorry Thanks for the informa...

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Maybe I can remedy that some. Just send me a short PM (cannot send you one) and I will happily have my little bit of code scrutinized by you.

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That's some cool & compact coding right there Timur, even neatly formatted and annotated Unfortunately I cannot claim any of the fame for myself, it is a copy & paste job of code I found on the web. ;) There is only one piece of very small code I can at least partially claim responsibility ...

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Sorry, that wasn't the whole script, but only the part out of my big script that handles the pasting. Here is a complete script instead. You can replace the line ^!v:: Goto Paste with >^v:: Goto Paste if you want to use the right-CTRL + v instead of ALT+CTRL (AltGR on German keyboard) for pasting. #...

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The script will also turn

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Concerning your example and Editor: I think the extra blank space after "de " is what causes the problem (extra line-break).

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The following Autohotkey script pastes clipboard content without breaks. It should not be needed with the aforementioned Editor option anymore, but I used it before said option was added. The script is more aggressive than Editor in that it keeps paragraphs, but it does not seem to keep (certain?) h...

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Right-click here:

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I just wanted to suggest an compromise to handle this without much additional coding on your developers part. Turns out that this is already implemented exactly the way I was about to suggest. When the "Compare Documents" dialog is opened while the comparison tab is in focus then the dialo...

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A button to swap sides could do just that, reprocess the comparison without the user having to enter the source documents again. We do not always compare open tabs and even then it's not always neighboring tabs, so a simple way to save all the clicking for a side swap would be useful.

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- The popup about the comparison being in progress does not pop up until I click the XChange Editor window. We cannot reproduce this issue so far on our end, the progress window appears to show up immediately for us. Are you able to reliably reproduce this issue? Turns out that this is a conflict w...

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I had another look. The numbers are on the page, but the formatting confusion between both versions makes them appear as differences.

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Hello. I just tried the Document Comparison feature and noticed several things. But first of all: Thanks and congratulations for implementing this! I only just noticed the feature due to a forum post. Great stuff! :) - Protected documents cannot be compared?! I wonder which of the following permissi...

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And to keep thumbnail related suggestions in one thread, here is a copy over from the search index thread: Editor could put thumbnails into its search results instead of the currently used same sheet icon for search results in page text. This https://i.imgur.com/Jq06ywf.png instead of this https://i...

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In order to not go too off-topic in this thread I created a thumbnail specific one a few days ago.

https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=38776

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Thanks for the analysis. I will report this back to the creator of the PDF as I suspect this to be unintentional (1st edition file doesn't have this). Both Acrobat Reader and Foxit do print these pages more bold than their 1st edition version, just not as overwhelming bold as Editor does. The other ...

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And to close the circle: a local (non embedded) index could also cache the thumbnails with each using less than 1 kb storage.

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Thanks for the search pane hint, I did not recognize that there were two separate commands to open advanced search and to open/close the pane (of which open seems to be the same as advanced search). I changed my hotkeys accordingly.

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The DPI workaround didn't work in the long run, turns out that the size of the side-panels plays a bigger role in whether we get one or two steps for practically equal Fit Page/Width sizes. Even without getting "Fit Height" as a default I would still very much like to see it getting its ow...

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The 1 pt border does *not* seem to be the problem. For comparison, here is the first printing file of the same book, also using a 1 pt border: https://i.imgur.com/Oywqkqf.png https://i.imgur.com/zEvhjxF.png Compared to the second printing file: https://i.imgur.com/sR9OyyU.png But I just noticed that...

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Blunt answer: Yes, we would remember, since we are not dumb and also see page numbers on thumbnails (something like 13, 257, 658 would give us a very strong hint). Even more so, because we are still in "search results mode" with highlights and the search pane showing so. And maybe Editor w...

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No hurry.

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The problem is especially visible in the thumbnails of the corresponding pages. They are drawn very black due to all the extra bolt fonts.

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My workaround is to use dedicated Editor windows for groups of files, which then have their own tabs. This came about, because I also needed per window search results instead of having one result for all open tabs. The third-party software Groupy then helps to better organize those open Editor windo...

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Hello. Here is an open list of thumbnail improvements that I would like to see: 1. Logical page numbers: Thumbnails (and everything else) should use logical page numbers when the option is enabled. https://i.imgur.com/o0eXjUa.png Edit: I only just noticed that thumbnails do use logical page numbers,...

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My fault for posting two bold font related issues that likely are not related in a single thread. No wonder things got confused. I sent an e-mail to support@pdf-xchange.com just 1 hour ago. Titled "Wrong bold text" with a link to this very thread and an appended PDF called "Bolt Font ...

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I see the sheet icon in front of every single advanced search result line, regardless of what options I try. It seemingly is meant to indicate a search hit on a text page and can also show bookmark (and likely other) icons instead. It wastes a lot of space due to: - showing in front of every single ...

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I also sent you an example (extracted page) PDF for the bold Type1 font problem, that wasn't bolt in earlier Editor versions (as far as I remember) and isn't bolt in another PDF file.

Editor build 361.

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Turns out that proximity has to be set to anything other than simple adjacent words the bolt search results to happen. And of course you need to enable "Colored Search Results".

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Here is your example PDF with added bookmark:

PDFXLicense_Bookmark_bold_search.pdf: (39.1 KiB) Downloaded 37 times

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Hello.

How can I remove this "sheet" icon from search results?

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While extraction a single page to create an example document for you I found the culprit for the bold search font: bookmarks! If I do not extract bookmarks then search doesn't go bold, if I export even only the bookmark for the single extracted page then search gets bold. And if I create a new bookm...

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Hi Paul,

no. 2 does not happen on your attached PDF, so my assumption is that the use of Type1 fonts in my PDFs causes the bold search font issue.

I will send you an example PDF via e-mail.

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Hello. 1. In one of my documents Editor displays the Type 1 font "SabonLTStd-Roman" in bold. The same font in another document is properly displays as standard. https://i.imgur.com/qfOSVEr.png 2. Furthermore, when I enable "Colored Search Results" in the advanced search pane then...

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Some iOS PDF viewers simply change their thumbnail pane to only display those pages that include search hits. This should be doable in XChange Editor as well and the search/thumbnail panels can easily be moved to the same side for close proximity. Search results would have to get rid of this mostly ...

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As mentioned, I have not yet further experimented with FileLocator Plus (which is essentially identical to Agent Ransack). However, I would be very surprised if the search results (of course after an indexing run beforehand) were not instantaneous, as can be expected from a full-text indexer. Then ...

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It would be the target group that works with largish PDF files starting at a few dozen pages long. I regularly open about a dozen PDF files that I have to navigate through quickly, either by bookmarks, search or duplicate tabs (to keep different pages of the same PDF open). Using an external search ...

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Does ShadowCopyView only list one shadow copy to select from? Anyway, try using PreviousFilesRecovery instead, it is a bit easier to use and lists all versions of modified and deleted files found in shadow copies. You can also use search wildcards to pinpoint your filename down or search for all *.p...

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FileLocator Plus takes 1:02 mins for a specific file that Editor takes 0:05 mins on. So Editor doing multi-threaded search and indexing of PDF files would be a *lot* faster than likely all indexing solutions out there. Add to that the possibility of embedding indexes with the PDF files themselves an...

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Which is why I wrote this earlier. :P Another result that helps understand why XChange Editor is less in need of indexing than other PDF solutions on modern hardware. I asked Acrobat Reader, Foxit Reader and XChange Editor to search for the whole word "and" in a 7.95 gb folder structure of...

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Folks, it's nice that you have fun using Everything, but it only find files, not locations within files. If someone is searching for specific matches and locations within a 10000 pages file then Windows Search and Everything does nothing to solve that and thus has taken too much space in this thread...

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Are there any plans to implement embedded indexes for reading and maybe even writing?

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