Search found 317 matches

by Puffolino
Wed Nov 03, 2021 3:57 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Image compression with ICCBased color space
Replies: 24
Views: 2486

Re: Image compression with ICCBased color space

Still not sure what's going on - tested a file with 45 pages and deleted 44 pages then. Below are the audit dialogs before and after the pages have been removed. :shock: This test has been done with build 357, the incremential saving checkbox is not enabled. So maybe you need to wait eating your san...
by Puffolino
Tue Nov 02, 2021 6:40 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Image compression with ICCBased color space
Replies: 24
Views: 2486

Re: Image compression with ICCBased color space

Thanks for all your efforts, 'bout cropping a lot of image tools are offering a "lossless cropping" function which seems to conserve all pixel data and so no recompression is done. Not sure if this could be done in the given case as well. I am using build 357 actually, it will take some da...
by Puffolino
Tue Nov 02, 2021 4:31 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Image compression with ICCBased color space
Replies: 24
Views: 2486

Re: Image compression with ICCBased color space

Will have a look about recompressing, maybe I'll upload another file when I'm back home. The uploaded file does show the two effects I wrote above: just start the remove cropped content function or delete some (or nearly all) pages , the file size will be increased in both cases. Maybe I can find a ...
by Puffolino
Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:34 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Image compression with ICCBased color space
Replies: 24
Views: 2486

Re: Image compression with ICCBased color space

The behaviour is not limited to ICCBased images, I just uploaded a pdf file containing "standard" RGB coded images.
You should see an increase of the file size when doing remove cropped content. The file size won't change when pages are deleted.
by Puffolino
Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:52 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Image compression with ICCBased color space
Replies: 24
Views: 2486

Re: Image compression with ICCBased color space

Hi, not at home for some days but tried to upload a test file to https://useruploads.tracker-software.support which did not work from here (page not available).
by Puffolino
Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:53 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Image compression with ICCBased color space
Replies: 24
Views: 2486

Re: Image compression with ICCBased color space

I'll keep an eye to find some good examples, but actually I am checking why cropping an image makes a file larger in all (?) cases as it seems to add some junk information to the PDF file? I did some tests for now and was wondering that my PDF files gets larger and larger each time I cropped an imag...
by Puffolino
Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:22 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Keyboard shortcuts within program dialogs
Replies: 7
Views: 2032

Re: Keyboard shortcuts within program dialogs

That hurts :wink: Every programming language for windows I know so far (and I am old, so I know many) is able to deal with shortcuts for all kind of objects as a shortcut is just an alias for sending a windows message (which is possible for all dialog elements). I often need to move an object 75mm t...
by Puffolino
Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:10 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Find and Replace fonts - Error - Split topic
Replies: 8
Views: 995

Re: Find and Replace fonts - Error - Split topic

Daniel, thanks for your precise analysis, this helped me to solve one and understand the other issue... ...even when the font size wasn't the problem on my real documents (it was just because I made a bad example for the screen shots). In fact the most of my scanned documents don't use black filled ...
by Puffolino
Mon Oct 25, 2021 7:32 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Image compression with ICCBased color space
Replies: 24
Views: 2486

Image compression with ICCBased color space

I have some scanned documents which seem to be "perfectly" compressed - all images are shown with a color space "ICCBased" within the PDF Editor. As soon anything will be changed (like cropping a side of such an image or trying a recompress) the image size grows massively. BTW cr...
by Puffolino
Sun Oct 24, 2021 4:00 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Keyboard shortcuts within program dialogs
Replies: 7
Views: 2032

Re: Keyboard shortcuts within program dialogs

Hi, 've seen the changes in 357, thanks for doing this job, it really speeds up things :wink:
Even the delta checkmark can be toggled (anyhow Alt+Shift+',' is more tricky than my proposed Alt+'d'), but how to be able to aspect ratio flag? Tried some key combinations, but wasn't successful :roll:
by Puffolino
Sun Oct 24, 2021 3:52 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Find and Replace fonts - Error - Split topic
Replies: 8
Views: 995

Re: Find and Replace fonts - Error - Split topic

Same behaviour with build 357. Replace Fonts does not do any changes, manual selection is doing the same wrong things.
by Puffolino
Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:05 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Find and Replace fonts - Error - Split topic
Replies: 8
Views: 995

Re: Find and Replace fonts - Error - Split topic

Hi, as mentioned I am using build 354.0 (image 1) and don't have any problems with PDF Tools :roll:. The first issue is shown in images 2 to 4 when writing "Segoe UI" in the text gadget it will be replaced by something like "Segoe Black" or "Segoe Print" when pressing t...
by Puffolino
Tue Jun 29, 2021 8:12 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Find and Replace fonts - Error - Split topic
Replies: 8
Views: 995

Re: How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?

Hi Stefan, all I can say is, that the Tools is using the enhanced version (which is definitely fine for me so don't try to fix that) and the "Replace Fonts..." is not doing what I expect in mutliple cases (but character spacing is not an issue here)... Let's say I want to replace "Ari...
by Puffolino
Fri Jun 25, 2021 1:36 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Find and Replace fonts - Error - Split topic
Replies: 8
Views: 995

Find and Replace fonts - Error - Split topic

Hi Daniel, thanks for the precise description, so I could find the "Activations List" button (did search it everywhere else before), interestingly my computer is listed as "activated on 24th June 2021", so yesterday - but I did no action to activate something yesterday, so this m...
by Puffolino
Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:16 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?
Replies: 8
Views: 4831

Re: How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?

Hi Daniel, as you told me to be careful, I didn't do anything as everything could get worse :) But now, some months later and after having updated to 9.354 soe weeks ago I'd need to use OCR once again (so it's obviously not the most needed function for me)... ...and once again, the enhanced OCR mode...
by Puffolino
Sat May 01, 2021 5:52 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: JavaScript - printAllOpenedDocs dont work anymore since v9.0.353
Replies: 14
Views: 2071

Re: JavaScript - printAllOpenedDocs dont work anymore since v9.0.353

Hi, is there a simple workaround to modify scripts like this... :roll: { var ad = app.activeDocs; if (ad.length) { for (var i = 0; i < ad.length; i++) { var pp = ad[i].info; var file=ad[i].documentFileName; // : // : // : } console.println("ok"); } else { app.alert({ cMsg: "No pdf doc...
by Puffolino
Sat Apr 03, 2021 9:12 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Recompress images does not work...
Replies: 4
Views: 748

Re: Recompress images does not work...

Hi, the PDF in the first posting does shows all the issues seen here: 1. select all images, Ctrl+., Recompress images..., True Color Quality to minimum, Replace images when size is smaller, Ok button > "No changes where made" 2. select single image, Ctrl+., Recompress image..., minimum qua...
by Puffolino
Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:37 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Recompress images does not work...
Replies: 4
Views: 748

Re: Recompress images does not work...

Can anyone reproduce the different behaviour between recompress image and recompress images?
by Puffolino
Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:34 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Some PDF files cannot be viewed properly
Replies: 5
Views: 1434

Re: Some PDF files cannot be viewed properly

Hi, I know the viewer program has been discontinued. But (beside of some few issues) it's a perfect solution for just viewing a PDF quickly even from a memory stick. Maybe a the new editor could be set into a viewing only mode, disabling all edit functions. So what about an additional PDFXView.exe a...
by Puffolino
Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:11 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Some PDF files cannot be viewed properly
Replies: 5
Views: 1434

Some PDF files cannot be viewed properly

Here's an example of such a PDF document:

https://www.miele.de/pmedia/ZGA/TX3587/10110390-000-05_10110390-05.pdf
by Puffolino
Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:10 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Recompress images does not work...
Replies: 4
Views: 748

Recompress images does not work...

First of all, the function "recompress image" do work fine, I only believe that not all settings are identical to the image options given in the "Optimize PDF" dialog. But there are some issues with "recompress images": - the function won't be seen in the popup menu whe...
by Puffolino
Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:16 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?
Replies: 8
Views: 4831

Re: How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?

Ouch, not that good. OCR.png I am a single user who works with a single (portable) installation. I do run the program from a memory stick because my own notebook is an oldtimer which is not very fast. So when OCR is needed, I try to get a powerful PC on my workplace to do this time consuming jobs mu...
by Puffolino
Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:59 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Translation errors and typos...
Replies: 1
Views: 364

Translation errors and typos...

Did not find a thread for that section - maybe this can be moved to an appropriate place in the forum...

Typo (V352.0) Manage... explanation contains backgroungs (use Quick Launch)
by Puffolino
Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:54 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text
Replies: 76
Views: 47002

Re: Summarzing comments, extracting highlighted text

Hi, I'd like to ask if some small improvements could be done for the great summarizing feature: 1. when a new comment is edited (for instance when it has been newly generated), the text content won't be seen in the summarize list. 2. would like to change the format/size of the comment information te...
by Puffolino
Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:52 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Keyboard shortcuts within program dialogs
Replies: 7
Views: 2032

Re: Keyboard shortcuts within program dialogs

Hi, I understand it means definitely work to implement shortcuts, but I don't think that the programming part is that complex - isn't shortcut support done by the OS automatically, and (more or less) the same event will be seen for a shortcut like doing a mouse click on the appropriate gadget. I'd t...
by Puffolino
Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:26 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: Enhanced OCR quality tuning
Replies: 10
Views: 4635

Re: Enhanced OCR quality tuning

Thanks for that as well :)
by Puffolino
Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:55 pm
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Feature Request - show progress in taskbar icon
Replies: 1
Views: 778

Feature Request - show progress in taskbar icon

Since Windows 8.1 the taskbar symbol of a program can get a progress bar indicator very easily - this would be fine for the PDF-Tools as well, time consuming tasks could be observed by a having a look at the taskbar.
by Puffolino
Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:43 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: Enhanced OCR quality tuning
Replies: 10
Views: 4635

Re: Enhanced OCR quality tuning

Seems that the auto result is far better compared to the other settings - there's still one point I couldn't fix: all delimeters of the hyphenations are lost ('Zahlen- system' -> 'Zahlen system' and so on)...
by Puffolino
Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:30 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: Enhanced OCR quality tuning
Replies: 10
Views: 4635

Re: Enhanced OCR quality tuning

Oh, didn't mention that - sorry.
The files are in the Temp (OCR) directory of the user server for uploads.
:roll:
by Puffolino
Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:25 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?
Replies: 8
Views: 4831

Re: How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?

Hi Daniel, whatever I do, you and the rest of your team do a much better job than I expect (most of the time) :wink: Just some informations about the "portable" installation - did only one installation of the PDF XChange (enhanced OCR works then) and uninstalled it ( OCR doesn't work anymo...
by Puffolino
Wed Mar 03, 2021 6:11 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?
Replies: 8
Views: 4831

Re: How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?

Hello Stefan, wouldn't have a problem to repeat the activation when needed as I don't use the editor very often when I work on another PC. But one thing is strange anyway as it seems that the enhanced OCR is available in the PDF Tools (hopefully this behaviour will not be changed for the next update...
by Puffolino
Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:56 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: Enhanced OCR quality tuning
Replies: 10
Views: 4635

Re: Enhanced OCR quality tuning

Hi Daniel,

did not find the perfect setting so far, also was wondering that "Fine Page Content" output did create a file which is more than 6 times larger than the original image file.

I've uploaded the original file 'r.pdf' and the new output file 'r (auto).pdf' as well.

Cheers.
by Puffolino
Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:51 am
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: Enhanced OCR quality tuning
Replies: 10
Views: 4635

Enhanced OCR quality tuning

Hi, tried to OCR some pages now and was suprised that the engine tends to replace certain common characters by special characters very often. Another point is that the result might show many different font faces and font sizes within a paragraph, maybe an additional filter could allow to reduce the ...
by Puffolino
Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:17 am
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?
Replies: 8
Views: 4831

How to use advanced OCR in a portable installation?

I am using the PDF XChange Editor on a memory stick which is absolutely cool as I need to wotk on many different PC's day by day. To make an installed version portable, I just copy all files and directories to an USB stick, add a portable.dat file, uninstall the program and be happy... ...until the ...
by Puffolino
Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:11 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Recompress Images...
Replies: 15
Views: 1356

Recompress Images...

...doesn't work as expected. When trying to compress selected images (one or more), I get the following result: No changes were made. Please check your input data and try again. Using the function "Recompress Image..." for a single image (instead of "Recompress Image s ...") ever...
by Puffolino
Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:32 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Keyboard shortcuts within program dialogs
Replies: 7
Views: 2032

Keyboard shortcuts within program dialogs

I'd like to have keyboard shorcuts with (many) program dialog windows. This would make life easier. :roll: Just one example, the Transform Selection dialog: image.png I have defined a keyboard comination (Alt+Shift+T) to call the function to be able to change things very fast. Let's say, multiple ob...
by Puffolino
Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:07 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: A new PDF Viewer?
Replies: 3
Views: 1246

Re: A new PDF Viewer?

Great, thank you (an example has been sent to you).
by Puffolino
Wed Jan 27, 2021 4:34 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: A new PDF Viewer?
Replies: 3
Views: 1246

A new PDF Viewer?

Hi there, I am still using the good (!) old PDF XChange Viewer 2.5 on my memory stick to load and view PDF files quickly and comfortable. But during the last month, there are more and more PDF documents (many of them have been created by using the PDF XChange Editor) which can't be loaded, the Viewe...
by Puffolino
Wed Jan 27, 2021 4:17 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: OCR & portable installation
Replies: 3
Views: 520

Re: OCR & portable installation

Hi Daniel, sorry for producing some mess. I'm doing as best I can :wink: I've the XChange pro bundle, not the Tools pro - sorry for that type. The editor did never ask for validating my license (and was happy with the old one (stored in the settings.dat?). The Tools program asked to do so, however. ...
by Puffolino
Sun Jan 24, 2021 12:45 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: OCR & portable installation
Replies: 3
Views: 520

OCR & portable installation

Hi, tried to install the all new version 9 of PDF Tools pro but was not successfully in all details... * the editor starts fine (but only the standard version, the the low res version does nothing) * I was not asked for a new license, but when I pasted my key, averything seems to be okay (valid lice...
by Puffolino
Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:00 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Extract values (or text) from a PDF file
Replies: 3
Views: 742

Re: Extract values (or text) from a PDF file

W :shock: W

Never had a look at this function before, it does a great job (as you do).

Thanks!
by Puffolino
Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:17 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Extract values (or text) from a PDF file
Replies: 3
Views: 742

Extract values (or text) from a PDF file

I need to build a sum of certain values from a PDF file, like the distances in the given example below. I tried copy and paste and exporting (also when flattening all comments and selecting the text content only), but never get all numbers. Is there a nice trick to get all of the content as a text? ...
by Puffolino
Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:11 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: PDF with layers
Replies: 3
Views: 909

Re: PDF with layers

If the CAD program keeps the layer information when exporting to a PDF file, you can do this easily. Just press Ctrl+L to get to the layer panel where you see a bulb for each layer. Just click there to hide/unhide the layer...
by Puffolino
Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:43 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Got lost (a little bit)...
Replies: 4
Views: 796

Re: Got lost (a little bit)...

V339
1.
grafik.png
2.
grafik1.png
3.
grafik2.png
by Puffolino
Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:17 am
Forum: PDF-XChange (End Users FR)
Topic: Zoom outside page borders
Replies: 1
Views: 189

Zoom outside page borders

Sometimes objects (or parts of it) are outside the visible paper and need to be edited (moved/resized). I'd like to be able to scroll beyond the paper size even within zoomed views. Maybe a fixed border (1cm) around a paper size could be given or the surrounding area could be dynamically changed so ...
by Puffolino
Thu Jul 09, 2020 8:52 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Got lost (a little bit)...
Replies: 4
Views: 796

Got lost (a little bit)...

There's a small problem with the thumbnail panel, I try to explain what happens using a document with many pages) and the thumbnail panel is present... 1. Let's say the thumbnails are shown in two columns and the document is displayed in single page mode. When I select the thumbnail for page number ...
by Puffolino
Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:35 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Compressing Images changes image file type
Replies: 1
Views: 2717

Compressing Images changes image file type

I tried to use recompress to shrink a document, but when choosing JPEG/ZIP on certain JPEG images, the type is changed to JPEG2000/Flate with a larger size as well. grafik.png I needed to copy each image to a paint program and paste it again to squeeze the size :roll: grafik1.png Here's the example ...
by Puffolino
Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:03 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange (End Users FR)
Topic: Detailed document statistics
Replies: 3
Views: 233

Re: Detailed document statistics

Hi Daniel, thanks for your detailed information, I understand how difficult the complex structure of a pdf file would be to transfered to a statistical overview. Anyhow the "Audit space overview" shows for me a "document property" information but not any indication for "opti...
by Puffolino
Fri Jun 26, 2020 9:35 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange (End Users FR)
Topic: Detailed document statistics
Replies: 3
Views: 233

Detailed document statistics

I like the given statistics of a document (which can be seen before optimizing a document) but would like to get more detailed information. Not sure what of these things could be calculated (every single point would be nice): - pie chart to demonstrate the size distribution - size for each page (may...
by Puffolino
Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:36 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange (End Users FR)
Topic: Some tuning for certain options...
Replies: 1
Views: 272

Some tuning for certain options...

Hi, I'd like to get some additional features in certain dialogs: 1. Shortcuts (for frequently used functions, for example in "Transform..." Alt+X for X, Alt+U for Unit, Alt+L for Lock aspect ratio,...) 2. Tab order (example: you need to press 'TAB' very often in the "Transform..."...