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Arnold

One alternative I use is a Watermark, but it does take a little bit of time to set up. The Add Watermark dialog box (Organize/Page Marks/Watermarks/Add) has many options regarding the look and placement of a Watermark. A sample watermark is included with the program. I have my "Paid" one s...

Arnold

Yes, humour.

Arnold

Yes you can have a Save As icon by adding with the Customize Toolbar settings. I also added a shortcut key of Alt S.

Arnold

I forgot the

emoji. I was supporting replacing "Adobe" with" PDFX".

Arnold

I worked on an XP laptop with a small 15.6 inch monitor for a long time. I moved everything I needed to the top like David, and added some commands to drop downs like Split. Using a command requires an extra click, but helped with the limited screen space. I don't know, everybody may be doing this a...

Arnold

+1 for a change to PDFX

Arnold

Thank you. Yes through trial & error I found colors that work "okay". It might be a little confusing to others if they choose one of the lighter colors in the palette. The color in the pdf's will definitely be darker than the one chosen in the palette. 2022-04-26 17_52_49-.png 2022-04-...

Arnold

If the columns could be easily adjusted that would be really great.

I have tried using this feature before but this is the 1st time I have actually gotten it to work. Maybe installing an update to the Noto Sans font some time ago messed things up.

Thank you for looking into this.

Arnold

I changed the font I had set (Noto Sans) to Arial and then Calibri and everything worked. I then changed it back to Noto Sans and everything still worked! Have no idea why that is, but it works now. To summarize what appears to not work quite right or display correctly (to me) - Columns do not appea...

Arnold

I will try it with your exact settings and on the Windows 10 desktop as well. I will get back to you if I figure anything out. Are the columns supposed to spread completely across the page no matter the setting to "Automatically calculate column width"? I expected that setting would reduce...

Arnold

Version 361.0 does allow the underlining of tabs to be shut off. That is marvelous, but it would be great to be able to lower the tab height a little in addition to that.

Thanks.

Arnold

The Selection and Highlight colors turn to a medium grey just like the Face colors do. The blue default Selection color was pretty dark on my screen. I was able to lighten it some, but again ran into the grey problem at the upper end. Having the regular Selection color a little dark is not a big pro...

Arnold

I tried creating a pdf from the attached CSV file (airtravel.csv) as a test. I used both the File/New Document/From CSV File and Convert/From Files/From CSV File commands. In both instances no pdf was created. It seems their settings are independent of each other. In each case the process stalled wh...

Arnold

Scroll Bars look better in 361.0.

Arnold

Thank you! I will certainly try it out.

Arnold

Thank you for reading through that long post and giving it some consideration. I know I am a "pain in the rear", but I do have good intentions. The last poster expressed concern about keeping everything compact. I originally thought the Tabs needed more spacing, but it was more a backgroun...

Arnold

Holy Smokes, I think you guys fixed it. Opened same 3 files using the Open Files dialog. Used File/Exit and PDFX shut down perfectly. Tried opening them with File Explorer and File Commander and that still works fine. Tried it with other files as well. Sorry, I did not see your post until about 20 m...

Arnold

Just uploaded it. Crash_Dump.zip (119 MB). The notes are attached to my previous post - Crash_Dump_File.pdf.

Thank you.

Arnold

"Out of the box" the Black interface is unusable on this computer. The theme may look fine on others. Here, it actually turns the white background in embedded windows on the drop down ribbon menus to black, thereby looking cartoonish. It would involve way more tweaking to look "good&q...

Arnold

Ran into a problem, zip file is too large to email or even attach here.

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Arnold

Emailed the process dump to you.

Thank you

Arnold

I have played with the settings quite a bit, and all I can get is medium grey. I shut off textures, etc. years ago. I will of course look through your post in the hope that I missed something. It will be a pleasant surprise if I did. His suggestion for using bullets is nice, but not effective if the...

Arnold

I definitely don't want a white UI, but a light grey one would be nice.

Arnold

I understood what he was suggesting, and I think it would be good feature to have in the program. My problem was two fold because of how dark the tabs were. Not only was it hard to see the lines between the tabs, it was hard to even see the tab names. So using the White theme and upping the brightne...

Arnold

Here are the 4 that er showing in Task Manager right now. Exe's of the same size show up a couple of times in the 4 screenshots.

Arnold

I just closed out of the program and there were 3 exe files showing in Task Manager. I read your post and I was staring at the screen trying to remember what I did today, and all of a sudden another exe popped up in Task Manager. Wow, that was an eye opener! Today I have not really messed with the U...

Arnold

I have really been messing around with the Editor's UI the last few days. On several occasions I have noticed parts of the program still running after I have fully exited. I have auto start of updates shut off. Is there a reason this should happen?

Thanks.

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Arnold

By using the White theme and increasing the brightness setting of my laptop I can eliminate the problem. Hooray! However, I then have white scroll bars which get lost when I am working with 24" x 36" architectural drawings. I wrote about this when the new UI was first introduced. The Defau...

Arnold

I hope not to have to change file names. I have links set up to them from everywhere.

Wow those underlined tabs are still not "easy" on the eyes

Arnold

Thank you for the setting to disable the "animated underline-effect" for selected tabs. The inactive tabs still blend together here as there is no "daylight" between them. The attached screen shot delineates the tabs much better than in my "real life" viewing. Maybe bec...

Arnold

The settings used in each version were the same. I imported the settings I came up with for 358.0 into 356.0. The Fish Skin background pattern is selected which I had never used before 358.0. Man those scroll bars in 356.0 are good.

Thanks.

Arnold

Opening screen text re double click file opening cannot be seen with dark background in 358.0

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Arnold

Arnold

Same thing here with Firefox 94.0.1

Arnold

+1 Back on October 27th, Paul and I discussed a "classic theme" in another thread (Tabs in version 357.0). I had hoped given some time the changes made to the UI, especially the tab underline and scroll bars, might grow on me a little. 10 days have now gone by and I realize no amount of ti...

Arnold

Possibly the free program "Path To Clipboard" might be of use to you. It works by adding a context menu item in Windows Explorer to allow copying of the path, directory, or name of the selected file to the clipboard. It also works if multiple files are selected. https://12noon.com/?page_id...

Arnold

The white theme works best on my laptop. The other themes just look too dark overall for that display. I customized the Main, Page View and Dialog backgrounds to make them a little darker so they stand out. The Ribbon background remains white and tends to blend into the document. See attached. It wo...

Arnold

Oh I was quite sure it was impractical, and that is why I said "facetiously ask". I am using 358.0 every day. Glad they are open to tweaking it though.

Thank you.

Arnold

I do like the old scroll bar better, no doubt. Is that because I am 70 then?

In that last post I thought about asking facetiously if we could have a "Classic" theme since I am so set in my ways!

Arnold

Vertical scroll bar comparison with 32 inch x 40 inch drawing on page 36 of 52 pages. Thumbnail comparison using same page. Removing the underline from Ribbon tabs helps I think with association problem as noted in David's earlier post. Removing the underline for the active File tab not quite as muc...

Arnold

Working on a 24 inch x 36 inch architectural drawing. Zoomed in to 400% to look at some details. White vertical and horizontal scroll bars almost lost in the sea of white contained in the drawing itself.

Arnold

Meant to mention the scroll bar in my initial post. The old scroll bar constantly used different colors for the arrows and the areas above and below the scroll box. With the new scroll bar, only the thin icon at the center of the scroll box is a different color, unless the mouse is hovered over a pa...

Arnold

It was much easier for me to tell at a glance how many pdf's were open in the program prior to version 357.0. Now the tabs just seem to blend in together. See attached screenshots. Would it be possible to add a little horizontal space between the tabs? With the tab settings I use, the underline of t...

Arnold

I think it would be great

Arnold

I installed version 357.0 on my Windows 7 machine with my previous settings and did not like the look of it at all. The theme was listed as "Custom" and was primarily a dark shade of grey. The dialog boxes all looked really busy. Using the white theme and making a couple of adjustments lik...

Arnold

There are times when a feature like this would come in handy.

Arnold

Like David, in most instances I have only wanted to change one word (or two) to another. I would imagine that changing bigger chunks of text could become quite messy.

Arnold

Arnold

This would be excellent

Arnold

I am unable to assign a shortcut key to this command. Shortcut key I tried works with other commands.

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