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RMan

It appears that this is still a problem in the latest build with some color profiles for monitors as well as the monitor color profile effecting the actual hardcopy print output and changing the color. Shouldn't the color that is output to the printer be independent of any monitor or color preferenc...

RMan

I believe this is when they are printing to hardcopy printers from the Editor, not printing to the PDF driver that the problem happens. We have a customer complaining about the same thing with grayscale drawings.

RMan

Paul you would have to check with your team but if my memory serves me correct you guys used to use a different installer packager and it didn't give the option to close explorer. I can't remember if it's when you came out with the Editor that the installation packages changed or when but the non re...

RMan

Thanks. I was unable to get the tec build to work with VB6. Maybe it needs the updated tlb files in it also? I tired registering the dll files but when I tried to bring up a form in VB6 that already had the control on it the VB6 IDE would crash.

RMan

The downloads have not been updated and have the 322 build in them still. As for cmd.view.toggleAllCmdBars that's great to toggle but what's the best way to tell if they are going to toggle on or off since some may be off already? I think you're missing functions like cmd.view.showAllCmdBars cmd.vie...

RMan

Thanks so much. I will check it out today hopefully.

RMan

Also I did some more testing and it looks like the values are cached since the LoadSettings most likely. It looks like there are 17 keys the first time I save it that get written without a t.ID string value in them, hence why it keeps incrementing up by 17 it seams.

RMan

Here's a VB6 Sample App to prove it's not due to any legacy settings in the Registry. It looks like in Classic Mode when you hide commandbars it causes it. If I run Test2 it runs 10 saves and if you run it once and check the registry then run it again you will see that it increased the count. On min...

RMan

Luckily it was doing it on my surface tablet although not as bad. I tracked it down to it's writing over 20,000 entries into the CmdLayouts\Classic\Bars values and adding to it every time I issue the SaveSettings call it looks like. I can't find any reference to CmdLayouts in our code so I'm guessin...

RMan

It might be the antivirus but since it doesn't happen once the key was deleted and written again I doubt that. I'll keep an eye out and see if it ever pops up again to reproduce it. Agree the file would be easier but it's always been my experience that if a system admin wants to push out a setting t...

RMan

Is there any case where you could think that would cause the SaveUserSettings call to take a long time? It was taking 15 seconds on my machine and unfortunately I did not save the existing registry settings but once I deleted the existing registry key it went back to only taking about 0.4 seconds? A...

RMan

Thanks!

RMan

I should have thought about this earlier but can you guys provide a C++ example and verify that it works. I'm guessing so since I think some of your own plugins probably use the C++ interface to do it.

RMan

I should have thought about this earlier but can you guys provide a C++ example and verify that it works. I'm guessing so since I think some of your own plugins probably use the C++ interface to do it.

RMan

Daniel was this bug in the 324.0 build also?

RMan

Here's some VB6 code for it.

Code: Select all

Dim i As Integer
i = (pdfCtl.Inst.Str2ID("cmdbar.quickFind", False)
Call pdfCtl.Inst.ShowCmdBar2(i, False)

If you need to hide everything including the Ribbon you can try the code in this post.
viewtopic.php?f=66&t=30463

RMan

When they implemented the Ribbon Interfaces things changed. Here's some VB6 code that should get you close. If pdfCtl.Inst.ActiveMainView.IsRibbonMode = True Then pdfCtl.Inst.EnableRibbonUI False End If Dim i As Integer For i = (pdfCtl.Inst.Str2ID("cmdbar.first", False) + 1) To (pdfCtl.Ins...

RMan

For the new Editor SDK I think it's always been cmd.comments.flatten not cmd.annot.flatten. I can't be sure but I typically would put a note in my own code if something like that would have changed and I just have "cmd.comments.flatten" for the string for it.

RMan

I did the update from 324 to 324.1 and it acted like before and did NOT restart Explorer in the end. For some reason though this time I had 3 Explorer instances that needed to be closed and it couldn't close them either and I had to manually End Task on them for the installation would continue.

RMan

Apparently you can't do anything after you select a file. I tried passing in a blank document already and you can see by when it fires the Extension that the page count is 1. But once you select the file then the exact same call in the Extensions fails as does anything in the Convert that you might ...

RMan

Closer in C# at least. Using your sample code the new 2-1-2018 release fires the Convert call but it crashes at the following code in your sample: IPXC_Document coreDoc = m_pxcInst.NewDocument(); Here's the error I get An exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' occurred in Cu...

RMan

Sasha no go on getting close to being able to do anything in VB.Net and I believe it's because of multiple things on the interface declarations. Could you guys please build a simple VB.Net sample and confirm that this is going to work with VB.Net and VB6 also. From looking at the declarations that V...

RMan

Thanks. I'm going to try to finish up converting the C# to VB.Net and VB6 today and I'll post those results up.

RMan

Thanks. Getting closer. I finally have been able to get it to compile in C# using your code but it doesn't appear to work. It load the file type that I defined (*.plt) and if I select the file in the File->Open I see it's checking the Flags and the Extensions but if I hit Open it never checks the Ch...

RMan

Thanks but that gave errors also which is why I think there is something wrong with how the interface itself is defined and why it won't work with VB.Net or VB6. error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'IUnknownConstant' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference...

RMan

Sasha, Could you please provide a VB.Net sample of doing this? I'm unable to get it to work in both VB.Net and VB6. When I tried adding the class in VB.Net it ends up giving errors on the following 'ShowPrefsDlg' cannot implement 'ShowPrefsDlg' because there is no matching sub on interface 'PDFXEdit...

RMan

There is a bug in the current version with this. You cannot toggle off the document panes (using the ShowCmdBar) on the bottom like the cmdbar.pageLayout, cmdbar.pageZoom, and 'cmdbar.docOptions unless their is a document open. Which means as a developer we cannot prehide what we want before opening...

RMan

I verified the same results in my preview on Windows 7 by installing the Ricoh MP C1500/615C PCL6 driver from the standard Windows install. Adobe as well as the old PDF-XChange Viewer shows the print preview correctly but not the V7 Editor. I also tested the Ricoh MP C1500/615C PS and Ricoh MP C1500...

RMan

Is there a way we can override the Stamps folder location so if the user has your end user PDF-XChange Editor installed we don't mess up the stamps they use with that?

RMan

There are some new panes I believe so that is why it's probably still displaying it. Specifically try turning off these. I think the capitalization is correct in the strings below. "cmdbar.quickAccess" "cmdbar.quickLaunch" "cmdbar.quickFind" "cmdbar.view" Or t...

RMan

If you use lines merge or transparency in your AutoCAD drawings XPS is not a good choice because AutoCAD itself will rasterize the Output so you end up with an image based PDF basically. Typically the file size is larger and when you zoom in close the diagonal lines and such are not as clean looking...

RMan

I've never had it completely lock up. I'm not familiar enough with their installer but there might be a log files in your temporary folder. In mine it looks like I have some named PDF-XChange_Editor_XXXXXXX.log where XXXXXXX is the date and time The last line in the last one written was: [2FB0:0A3C]...

RMan

If you look at the Document Properties in the PDF-XChange Editor I think the PDF-Producer should say GDI or XPS in part fot eh description. Which one does yours say?

RMan

If it does happen you can Ctrl+Alt+Del then Start Task Manager then do the File->New Task (run) and type in explorer.exe. But most users don't know that so I can't even begin to imagine how many users don't and use some 4 letter words when they end up with a blank screen because they choose to not r...

RMan

Mine does the same thing on dual monitors with Windows 7 x64. Maximized on my primary monitor the program window extends slightly onto the secondary monitor to the right. Maximized on the secondary it extends to the primary on the left. Main monitor is 1920x1200 and secondary is 3840x2160. Here's th...

RMan

Thanks.

RMan

The document info bar settings are not stored in a way that would make it easy for a network administrator to push out a setting Currently they are stored as a keyname which can change. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tracker Software\PDFXEditor\3.0\Settings\DocInfoBar\DisabledSpans Keyname: t.000000 Val...

RMan

The undo/redo reason makes sense and never even thought about that case. Thanks again.

RMan

In trying this the comments were flattened but they were still listed in the Comments Pane in the Editor. Is there an event that needs to be fired to refresh the Comments Pane list? I was able to flatten them all using this sample and that removed the listing in the comments pane also but it's not a...

RMan

Thanks so much that works much better than saving to the registry and reading the values from there.

RMan

Is there anyway to read and change the Recently Used Colors values? I know we can save the settings to the registry and read the values there but I figured there must be a direct way to get them also. I found the Misc.ColorRecents in the settings Cab but the Count is always 0 even after adding in so...

RMan

Sorry about that. Didn't think to check the version number. Thanks again.

RMan

Unfortunately it doesn't look like it works in the August build. You can still barely read the bookmarks. I still don't understand why the Bookmarks pane just isn't set to a white background so the bookmarks colors always display in the color that their properties are set for.

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RMan

Sorry for the delay trying to get a clean VB6 sample for you to test with put together between my own workload. Here's a zip file and it includes an mp4 showing the bug also. Hope it helps.

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RMan

Did anyone ever find a solution for this yet? This is still a problem it appears with the latest 6.0.322.7 release of the Editor. I'm wondering if it's specific to VB6 only as I can reproduce it in a VB6 sample but not in the C# sample included with the SDK. In a VB6 form it looks like the arrow key...

RMan

Unfortunately I was never able to get this to work in VB6 and I'm hoping you can really press the developers to fix this and either keep the bookmarks pane white or check the contrast value between black text and the background color and if it's too low then force it to white. I'm guessing 90% of th...

RMan

Thanks. In our case since we use a side by side manifest install with the files in our folder I'll gladly use an intermediate release if they can fix it sooner. I was really hoping there was just some setting missing in the theme but hopefully they can change it to match the other text color or add ...

RMan

It looks like the frame headers are using the Selection color and I have tried finding the value in the Themes.xml in the Resources.dat file that controls this but no luck. As you can see from this screen capture there are many times when the labels are barely readable due to other colors you pick s...

RMan

Sasha,

I see the OnEvent was not resolved in the May release. Any reason why since it should be a fairly simple declaration in the event declaration I I would think?

RMan

Thanks. If you have a sample project that would be great also.

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