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David.P

Hello all, that is because the text has a non-zero (1.1 pt) width outline that also has a color applied to it: image.png If you remove the outline and/or its color, the text will lose the artifacts. Normally, basic text should not have an outline wider than 0pt, nor should the outline have a color a...

David.P

While not exactly on point, here is another easy way to convert Excel to PDF:
https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?p=162662#p162662

Cheers & HTH
David.P

David.P

Hello all, I am also a fan of SVG. Just as a tip, it is now possible to edit SVG nicely in PowerPoint (vectorially/losslessly). It is also possible to select any element(s) in PowerPoint and export them as SVG again, via right-click. The king of SVG editors is, of course, the awesome & free Inks...

David.P

Hello all, for more toolbar real estate, may I suggest to drag and arrange the toolbar vertically, e.g. in the bookmarks pane: https://i.imgur.com/ebixdhv.png HTH & Cheers David -- Edit -- Just saw that Stefan already mentioned this: I had to move the existing toolbar to the vertical before I co...

David.P

Thank you Stefan, for the prompt action in this matter. Looking forward to the realization of this feature. For the time being, I shall continue to use the "W" key, which I have assigned for quick application of the "Fit Box by Text Content" command (that acts both on normal text...

David.P

Hello all,

As a very frequent user of text comments and especially callouts, I'd strongly support this feature proposal by KoLoLo:

KoLoLoLo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 3:09 pm Is it possible to permanently enable the [comment/callout text box] to adjust itself to the typed text?

Best regards
David

David.P

Hello all, A workaround I usually apply is to first select the comment (the same goes for page content) and then use Shift + Cursor keys to quickly move things on the page as desired. Then I select and move the corresponding link using Shift + Cursor keys as well. This way, the link can be placed ex...

David.P

Hello all, I agree with the feature request by rakunavi. I also often put links over comment text and then find that comments can no longer be selected when they have a link assigned to them. I also agree with rakunavi that it would be helpful if a text box could be selected and moved together with ...

David.P

Hello all, I believe there is a related discussion and feature request from 2019 here: https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?p=138601&hilit=Pane+dockable https://i.imgur.com/VK88aC2.png Orange: panes with limited dockability Green: universally dockable panes Best regards David

David.P

Schau mal hier Gelbwuschd:

HTH und cheers
David

David.P

This is actively being worked on this very second. That's awesome to hear 👍 This color picker seems to be even better than the Microsoft Office one referenced further above. Although, of course, it must be said that a color picker with an (approximately) circular color arrangement makes a lot of se...

David.P

If you check out how Anki for example does it (which uses the same Windows 10 dialogue I think) https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/download/file.php?id=20617&mode=view This is how it should be working! Once you choose a new color, or adjust an existing color, it should choose an empty spot , not ove...

David.P

Hello all, I was going to confirm that Recompress Images also does not work for me in certain cases (which I have yet to reproduce). When it happens, I also get the message "No changes were made. Please check your input data and try again". Also, the compression quality with JPEG2000 seems...

David.P

Not sure if it works from USB Stick. I also use the portable version on a laptop, however I simply copied it to a folder on the HDD. Windows then can be configured to use this version as the standard PDF program, simply by right-clicking on a PDF and going through the "Open with" -> ... ->...

David.P

Hello all, In Ad0be Acrobat/Reader, Photoshop, Paint.net and many other programs it is done by holding down the space bar. This temporarily activates the hand tool, no matter which main tool is active at the moment. I recommend trying that for once e.g. in Ad0be Reader. It is actually very convenien...

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David.P

Hello Streiflicht,

if it is a PDF printed from a CAD program, then it is probably (hopefully) a vector PDF.

This is easily converted to black and white by simply selecting all lines and then, using the Format tab or the Properties toolbar, changing the line color to black.

David.P

I believe that there are several p*tent att*rneys present in this thread, so probably the right audience for your lawyer joke

David.P

Haha Paul, I know! This seems to happen to me all the time and almost everywhere. I write my request two or three times in detail and with examples and photos and screenshots, and then I get a reply with a boilerplate text block that proves that (at most) the subject of the request had been read and...

David.P

Rather than having to go through the process of selecting each commented page one by one, it would be a logical functionality extension to have the option of having all the corresponding pages selected in the Thumbnails panel This would be a totally awesome feature. Should it ever be implemented, m...

David.P

Hi all, I agree that this would be a useful feature. What I do is, I create a link on each of the pages I want to go back and forth between, roughly in the area of interest, that points to the respective other (or next) page. If everything is set to "Inherit" in the link properties, then i...

David.P

Yes, vector drawings are king.

I have essentially dedicated my life to the furtherance of end-to-end vector drawings.

And I can't overstate the crucial role PDF-XChange Editor has in "it".

David.P

Hello all, Sorry for the late answer on my part. Just briefly one more time about the dpi number of images. A dpi number alone doesn't say anything about the quality of an image. The quality of an image can really only be judged by the size of the image in pixels, for example by the pixel count of t...

David.P

Hello all, PDF-XChange Editor just crashed, immediately restarted itself and opened the previous session, however in the last manually saved state of the documents. No current recovery was offered. The Recovery Pane only showed documents from yesterday and the day before, and the associated Recovery...

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Team, Here comes the next report about problems with Document Recovery. My laptop just crashed while some PDF documents were open in PDF-XChange Editor. One of the documents had been continuously edited for several hours. Unlike before, PDF-XChange Editor did save recovery in...

David.P

[...] To stop the USPTO from mangling the file, it must already meet the requirements before it is uploaded. I looked for software that can do this and found the Black Ice Monochrome printer driver. It provides fine detail control of the algorithm and other settings used to create the pdf file for ...

David.P

I don't understand why, but when I use dithering to recompress the same image, it results in a much higher quality version I don't think so. You should never apply dithering to a line drawing, this will always degenerate the quality, because it tends to eat away pixels from your lines. At best, it'...

David.P

Yes, the USPTO will accept either letter or A4 without any problems. If I uploaded the PDF file to the USPTO's website, it would look exactly the same as it does in the attached file. Thanks, that's very good to know. If you upload any form of grayscale, it will get mangled by the USPTO. It sure wi...

David.P

If the file you upload is a 300 dpi binary image, then it will show up in the USPTO image file wrapper without any modifications. The image is not degraded by any kind of compression. Thank you for the information. Good to hear that! Officially, the USPTO accepts both Letter and A4. Do you happen t...

David.P

Thanks for posting!
Awesome news.
Cheers David

David.P

Hello mCHSNUg5Pz8cPap, a short question in the context of your above post, which I'm quite sure you can answer from your experience. When submitting (i.e. uploading) drawings to the USPTO that are rendered as 1bit pure black and white at, say, 300 dpi: will these be included in the electronic file b...

David.P

Hello Zarquan314, Unfortunately, by default, all the papers are in alphabetical order by last name, so I fear I may develop bias for papers based on position. I was wondering if there is a good way to randomize the order of the tabs in the editor. Also, I believe that an alphabetical order of the ta...

David.P

Hello all,

Maybe this is a possible approach:

Just make sure you don't hover with the mouse over the tab name, otherwise the file's (bad boy's) name will be displayed in a tooltip.

Cheers & Hth
David

David.P

What is the point to increase the DPI of the existing image? In that case it will just increase the size of pdf-file without real improvement of the quality of enlarged image(s) . Hello Vasyl, thanks for your reply, and sorry for my late feedback. It is of course true that just increasing the dpi o...

David.P

chrisjj wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 9:45 amTaking that as "Make sure that before pasting your comments, (only) the page on which the first comment is to be located is displayed."

That's it!

David.P

Hello Forum and Daniel, The two values for dimensions are the "measured distance within the document" and the "intended scale based on that measurement" so unless you know the exact measured distance on the page, using the page units, you will not be able to easily manually modif...

David.P

Thank you Daniel, for letting me know.

Maybe this (in my view) useful feature can be added at a later time.

Best regards
David

David.P

Hello Paul,

I just realized that I'm actually running the previous version 9.4.363.0 here.

In any case, I shall update and continue to monitor/report about the Autorecovery behavior.

Thank you,
David

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, I know that you can calibrate a drawing, or its dimensional lines, respectively, using the "calibrate measurement" command. However, what is the situation in the case shown below: https://i.imgur.com/4fg6LKG.png Suppose I know the "real" leng...

David.P

Hello Daniel & @all, Recompression is able to increase the dpi of images I'd love to try that because I do indeed have occasional use cases for it. However, I don't seem to succeed in increasing the resolution of any images, only a reduction seems to be possible, or working, respectively. https:...

David.P

Hello all, just dropping by to say that unfortunately, Auto Recovery continues to not work for me. While PDF-XChange Editor virtually never crashes, it does happen that there are crashes of one of my various PC's. However, I have never been able to observe that anything useful is found in PDF-XChang...

David.P

Make sure that before pasting your comments, (only) the page on which the first comment is located is displayed. That way it will work.

David.P

Hello all, just tried it: the Custom Colors are all saved when exporting the PDF-XChange Editor settings. For completeness, here is an older thread in which an improved color picker dialog was already suggested. https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?p=158676#p158676 https://i.imgur.com/b8BYwC6...

David.P

Hello all, not sure why this thread was put on "Solved". Anyway, I noticed that when doing a search for that search term "7E FF 06 1A 00 00 01 FE E0 EF" minus the last character "F", I do get some search hits without problem: https://i.imgur.com/mcBqNj2.png If however I...

David.P

Hello all, for reference, there is already a thread related to this topic here, with two workarounds, one via a Word macro, and one as an AutoHotkey script: https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?p=141388&hilit=macro+script#p141388 (Btw, in my experience, the problem that wenmin92 describes...

David.P

Thank you Paul, although it would be even more flexible (and also easier for the user) if the default image editor could be set directly within PDF-XChange Editor, regardless of what the default image editor is in Windows. On the other hand, your above approach completely solves the issue for me, pa...

David.P

[...] Please reference RT#3969: Edit Image with default application always uses M$ Paint when requesting an update to this issue. Hello all, is there any new status on this ticket? I would also find it very helpful if a default application for editing images could be set specifically in PDF-XChange...

David.P

O.k. thanks Paul for the feedback from the Devs. My use case would have been to introduce colleagues to a version of PDF-XChange Editor that I have heavily customized. Since the colleagues are novices and still work with the standard Ribbon UI, I would show them how to quickly switch between their R...

David.P

Thank you Paul for your quick reply, and for making the inquiry with the Development team. I have now tried to work around this issue by creating a duplicate of my customized "Other Tools" button on a temporary new toolbar in the classic UI, in order to then drag the commands of this dupli...

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, the Quick Access Toolbar (the toolbar in the window title bar) is available both in the Ribbon User Interface (below left) and in the Classic User Interface (below right) of PDF-XChange Editor. https://i.imgur.com/3nKX1HX.png However, it seems that there are two...

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