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Fit Page and Fit Width should be the same for Two Page view. And indeed they are for certain window sizes, while differing by 0.0x% for other sizes (like maximized). When they are the same then they are merged into a single zoom step, when they are not the same then we get two identical zoom steps w...

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Yes, already done. My sessions usually are less than a dozen files, sometimes using duplicate tabs. I only reported the latter bit for your information.

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- Fit page has a drawback on my 16:10 display. If I want to keep table of content to the left and advanced search to the right at sane sizes then a double sided book does not fill the height of the window. But most of these books only have empty space/art at their page borders, so for better readabi...

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The suggested voidtools Everything does not index content, but only filenames. Sorry, but you are wrong. Everything can index content and moreover, Everything can use Window Search for instant find content. (Look at si: search function) v1.5 ALPHA does offer content indexing. But since it only list...

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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 1366 files (775 PDFs). All files resi...

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Hello.

The "Default Page Zoom" setting is missing the "Fit Height" option, which generally I prefer most of my PDF files. Could this be added?

Thanks and regards.

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To put some perspective to this: Editor searches already are very fast on a modern CPU with high enough single-core clock-rate. Unfortunately it does not use multi-threading (cores) for search even when multiple documents are searched concurrently. Here is a test searching 324 PDF files between 2 mb...

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Some additional information: - The exported file itself seems to be broken/damaged. When I import it after disabling Groupy it still opens empty windows. - Using the current built 361 on a freshly installed Windows 11 does not cause the issue. I can export and import with Groupy being enabled or dis...

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Only one display, but maybe using Groupy to organize the multiple windows under a single titlebar + tabs is to be blamed? For myself I can easily set the sessions up again, of course. I can send you the session files and I can do some tests with and without Groupy. If Groupy is the cause then it has...

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Hello. I recently did a fresh installation of Windows 11. Before that I exported all my Editor sessions to files. Said sessions are multiple windows of Editor, each of which can include multiple tabs. Loading those sessions works as expected. Unfortunately importing the session files did not work. I...

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I compared the other software versus PDF Tools for a PDF that does not use the special "interactive" format (aka forms). Unfortunately I extracted most large images as JPG instead of PPM and comparing those to the PDF Tools' extracted PNG showed loss of quality for the JPGs. So another str...

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The (fewer) PNGs from the second solution had some minor errors in a grey gradient. Getting PPM files from the free software is a bit inconvenient, but manageable. After 5 years I am still hoping for PDF Tools learning to deal with these PDF files.

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Fortunately I found one free program that can extract all files losslessly (ppm format) and another one that at least extracts the most important images as PNG (there are some minor differences, though).

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Setting the RGB working space to sRGB seems to fix the color changes in PDF Tools. Quite unexpected, because in Editor it makes no difference. Meanwhile I noticed that the JPEGs saved by PDF24 are sometimes of lesser quality than the PNG extracted by PDF Tools. So I would really like to be able to u...

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While this is still undeway: I also noticed that images extracted by PDF Tools apply color-conversion, as in converting from my display color profile to sRGB = saturation lowered in output images.

I really wished we could finally just disable color management in both PDF Tools and X-Change Editor.

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In cases when you looking for the same criteria in all 10 tabs - the current way is certainly better than others. Because, 'in one click', you are quite literally able to search in ALL tabs as well I'd like to emphasize again. You can do the same thing when search results are per window, so why not...

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Which of course also works for separate windows (mostly), so having separate search results does not take away from that.

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Search in folder results can work the same as it does not with per window search results. Tabs just need to offer the same option (!) that windows already offer. When I use 10 windows then I can get up to 10 search results, when I use 10 tabs then I can only get 1 search result. The latter can be us...

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we just changed the algorithm which decides whether to use Cleartype or Antialiasing. This would be the improvement to the old Cleartype mechanism then. All my examples where Editor did *not* use Cleartype in the past now show as Cleartype even when (forced) is *not* used. ;) So improvements on all...

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Hi Paul, I do see the difference in your example, but I don't see any more differences in my earlier examples, which kind of started the whole thing. ;) So it seems that not only did you add the "forced" mode now, but you also changed something about the classic Cleartype mode. I am not co...

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Hello,

since the other thread was closed I have to create a new one to report that the new "Cleartype (forced)" option now seems permanently enabled even when the standard Cleartype (LCD) option is used. All my former test-cases now display CT with both options.

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I sent an e-mail to support pointing to this thread.

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This assessment confuses me. Currently Editor displays invalid search results whenever a document tab is switched. If users open multiple files then they need per file search results. And even many years after Apple's PDF viewer offered sorted search results (by rank or at least by number of hits pe...

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I understand. Maybe make the session file editable to change load order manually by the user?

The whole reason I am using separate Editor windows and Groupy is because Editor does not display search results per tab, but only per window.

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Hi Daniel,

thanks for getting back to this.

PDF Tools 358: 28 images extracted
PDF24: 69 images extracted

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If you are not zoomed in then you can also use up/down cursor keys.

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I compared some extracted images that were saved as PNG by one software and JPG by another and it turns out that they are pixel-perfect identical. So it seems that there is no loss extracting these images as JPG by the software I already have installed anyway (PDF24). Seeing how various other applic...

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I tried various other solutions, some can extract all images, but none can save all images as lossless PNG. One can at least save part of the images as PNG while saving others as JPG. But I don't know if this is simple extraction or if the JPG images are recompressed upon saving. So I would really p...

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Unfortunately this still does not seem to be supported? I can extract images via PDF24 software, but it saves images as JPEG without options to control compression settings.

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Physical order by which they are loaded. I seem to have found out that Editor loads files by the order they were opened before a session is saved. So for my specific sessions I went through the small ordeal to load them in the order I need. The reason I care for the load order is that this also is t...

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Furthermore it can be distracting to have thumbnails still scrolling while you already reached the document page, because something at the side of the screen is still moving.

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Problem is that Editor uses soft-scrolling for its thumbnails window when you navigate in the document instead of navigating in the thumbnail panel. Editor does not follow Windows' settings in that regard, even ignoring Windows' accessibility option to turn off all unneeded animations.

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Just did a short test. With two (duplicate) tabs of the same document open Editor still jumps between tabs when using backward/forward, even when the corresponding option is disabled in Editor settings.

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Hello.

How does Editor decide the load order of documents when a session is loaded (what loads first, what last)? I would like to change that order for my sessions.

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I am working with multiple tabs/windows of the same document(s) all the time, specifically because I need to jump back and forth a lot in them (so more duplicates = less jumping). So any improvement in this areas is always welcome.

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Ahoi.

Should Editor not use at least one CPU thread per open document when searching "In all open documents"?

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Does the next update happen to fix this? Else I will have to stay at v8.

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Good stuff.

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Thanks for the information. I went back to v8 for the time being then, because this bug regularly gets in the way of what I use Editor for.

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So do I downgrade to v8 for the time being or will this be fixed in short time?

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This issue has another side-effect that makes me think about returning to v8. The "Where would you like to search" fields of all unnamed windows remain empty until I click on a document tab. It's not enough to click the window.

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In the example PDF the fonts/subsets in the different paragraphs did not show as different names in the fonts properties panel. There was no way to discern which was used, even less so after copy & paste from one paragraph to the other. You would get a "K" in one paragraph and a "...

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Should it not be possible to allow a content delete function for layer based content, just as a layer allows to hide/show content based on said layer? This would be a 2nd delete option "Delete layer + content". Since the whole point of using layers is to group content by said layer logic i...

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What is the rationale behind this procedure? In any other software that works with layers you delete the content of a layer when you delete its layer.

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Still the same result in Editor v9 trying the T_no_CT example.

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Yes, this is a problem for several years already. Best is to switch off your display profile in Windows before printing via X-Change standard. Best to use Acrobat to print to printers when colors are important. The latter may result in smaller print data anyway (especially when Type 1 fonts are invo...

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I hoped I wouldn't have to check myself, but just get an update. So I did a quick test and skew/deskew quality looks good. Overall results are much better with the original flyer example of post #1. The "Ignore Text in graphic" option helps to keep images intact, but strangely it also fixe...

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The following setting was disabled, I don't remember getting anywhere near it, though. I will try to update V8 to V9 on my laptop and check if this messes with the same settings.

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No hurry from my side. I only stumbled across the bug when I tried workaround for the other thread. I don't currently need layers myself.

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