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Timur Born

Found another related bug. When I try to delete the newly imported layer it remains visible (and unswitchable) despite its entry being deleted from the layer panel.

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Sorry, but the "Delete Layers" part was wrong, I meant "Undo layer creation" then "Redo".

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Were the skew issues fixed with the latest V9 version of OCR engine?

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I understand that automatic joining of different sub-sets is not (easily) possible. But I still wonder if the font properties should not reveal to the user that different sub-sets are used for different paragraph. From a user's perspective both paragraphs used exactly the same font, there was no hin...

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Restoring the last document view seems broken in V9?! Now it does not restore any view at all, all documents are opened to their very first page. Happens with both automatic and manual session loading.

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I have to use said third party utility "Groupy", because Editor still does not offer search results per tab. It is also nice having thematically sorted windows, so Groupy and Editor fit well together. Here is the result without using "Groupy", same problem. https://i.imgur.com/yv...

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Steps to reproduce:

- Import a page as new layer over another page.
- Switch layer off/on = works.

- Delete layers.
- Redo.
- Switch layer off/on = does not work.

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Different workarounds: 1) Import page 2 as a new layer over page 1. Zoom to whatever area you need to. Switch the new layer on/off for comparison. This essentially does what you need. 2) Enable the "Loupe Tool". Set it to whatever zoom level and (box) size you need. Place the mouse to the ...

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For comparison, this is what it should look like (and did in V8):

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Hello and congratulations of releasing V9! I regularly load various PDF documents as sessions and have Editor load its last session automatically, using both document tabs and dedicated windows. V8 used to update the windows' title bars of all open windows upon loading the session. V9 does not updat...

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Version 338 free ("Dokument aufteilen"). Maybe it was fixed in a later version?!

Also no stamps in the final documents after splitting.

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So page extraction is the current method of doing so, just as I thought (and used). Thanks for the explanation.

One drawback of this is that this does not work with the free version, whereas "Split document" does.

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Should the fonts properties point at what is going on then to make better user decisions? As far as I can see font properties from both sections of the text body look exactly the same, no hint about using different splits of the same font. I also wonder if it should not be possible to automatically ...

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Is there an easy way to split a document in two files at a certain position instead of having to extract pages? The "Split Document" function only seems to allow to split "every x pages". So when I need to split a 500 pages document after page 220 I would get 3 files instead of j...

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Soooo +1.

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+1 for getting rid of the delay/timeout. And I only just noticed the optional switch to not have history navigate though different open documents. Thanks for implementing this, even if it may have been done years ago already. ;) Unfortunately it gets confused if I duplicate a tab and then navigate t...

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Are there any changes/plans for better Type1 support, aka softfont upload to printer drivers for both PDF creation and faster paper prints?

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I took a look at the document and suspect the behavior to be an Editor bug. The are "K" and "M" characters embedded in the font, but Editor allows to only use characters that are part of the current text paragraph. So even when the "K" is written in the same exact font ...

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Also take notice that the document is using Type1 fonts. If you print this to a new PDF file Editor will discard the font information entirely and instead draw a new font that does not link displayed letters to keyboard characters anymore. So watch out for that, too.

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Independent of whether this works or not Editor should still allow to use mouse-dragging to mark text after a double/tripple-click was used. This is how Word, browsers, Notepad, Notepad++ and lots of other software handle it. It's very convenient to be able to first double/tripple-click and then dr...

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Since per tab search results are still not available I bought Groupy to open PDF files in their own window when I need search results to be independent of other PDF files. I keep multiple PDF files in single windows/multiple Editor tabs when I can live with search results cancelling each other out. ...

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Coming back to this, are there any plans to allow logical page numbers to be extracted and be displayed in search results? Extracting page-ranges just for search and then getting back rather irrelevant page numbers in search results is still rather inconvenient. Fortunately my documents include page...

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Thanks for reminding me about that option (which I never needed in the past)!

The PDF files are locked against changes, so I cannot easily edit the bookmarks, but the option does all I need.

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I am lately getting PDF files that change zoom settings to fit width on root bookmarks and to 50% or 66.66% on lower nodes. The same happens in Acrobat Reader with the same files so the files are to be blamed. Problem is that I disabled "Respect document's settings" and even specifically s...

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Thanks Daniel. This is kind of disappointing, because PDF search and result presentation is something that still needs much better support by PDF software. The current workaround is to extract the pages to a new document and search in there, but that messes with page numbers and means extra work. Ed...

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Hello.

I would like to suggest a feature that allows to conduct searches only within certain page ranges or selected pages. This would allow to search for keywords within single/selected chapters of a book only.

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Well, it is what it is. As a customer I have no say in what font type my bought PDF files come in, but many of them use lots of Type 1 fonts, alongside Truetype.

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Thanks for the information.

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Which source file formats does the "populate PDF forms" feature accept?

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The font is listed as Type 1 font with "Custom" encoding. When I replace the font with itself then the combined fi "ligature" changes to individual fi letters while I hover the mouse over the font selection list, the letters also change their lines to be more individual (connecti...

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Copy & Paste works the same with ligature option enabled or disabled. The content pane also reveals that these really seem to be separate "f" and "i" characters to begin with. So who knows what's going on there. I mostly only chimed in on the ongoing discussion, so the time-l...

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Thanks Daniel, the option was already enabled (default?) and disabling it does not seem to make any difference. The "fi" still vanishes after unembedding fonts and I can still separately select the "f" and the "i". I can even select them after they vanished! Earlier in ...

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To clarify, I can select both the "f" and the "i" by themselves, so it does not seem to be a "fi" ligature. At least Editor's copy & paste is able to differentiate them.

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Thanks for the feedback! Looks like these "fi" characters are true f + i, though. Here I am using copy & paste from Editor to Firefox: had been the first to stand against they were the first to fall There also is the case where the "i" becomes visible again, once I insert a s...

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Much like outright removing something that is in use from anything else could damage it, PDF files are no exception. if we cannot replace it, we will not outright remove it because that process could damage the document. As I said before, It could be that: First, let me clarify that Adobe Acrobat b...

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This is rather vague, though, and the "risking to damage the document" part does not convince me. I assume that font embedding is standardized in some form?! When I replace all text with Arial in this example document then all other fonts are removed without issues. The HP41 headlines look...

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I am using Office 365, aka Word 16. So it offers functions that are not part of Word 2013.

PDF24 is my favorite Ghostscript based PDF software, no question about it!

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Well, in this very case common fonts like Comic, Tahoma and Symbol are not removed (entirely). And once the PDF is saved as optimized Editor claims that no more fonts can be unembedded. The font list in the Save as Optimized dialog is empty then while the list document properties dialog still lists ...

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Yep. Thank you.

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Quickly add the numbers to those documents that do not come with their own logical page numbering implementation. I just found the Page Number -> Number Range feature and this can be used to quickly align logical to physical page numbers by assigning the front pages their own range.

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Is there a way to quickly/easily add logical page numbers to documents that don't offer them, in order to align logical and physical page numbers in those documents?

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I also had a look at the "Unembed all fonts" option. It does still keep those parts of the fonts embedded that are not present on my system, which mostly seems to be that HP41. Some fonts are still listed as "Embedded subset" and curiously "Symbol" is listed as "Em...

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Content Pane -> right-click -> Select -> Text This will select all text in the document. Choose a font in the properties panel and all text is changed to the new font while text size and style remain untouched. If I remember correctly then I once suggested a feature to find & replace specific fo...

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But there already is an "Remove all embedded fonts" option in the "Save as optimized" function?! Is this what you are looking for? It would be great if there was an automated way to replace fonts with similar substitutes, which is not possible at the moment. What is possible, tho...

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Any comment on desket + reskew being applied with "Fine Page" OCR?

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Hi Will, sorting by number of hits per page would already be a big improvement, worse than true "rank" sorting, but better than chronological. An option to filter thumbnails to only show pages with search hits would also be nice. Combine that with search results applying "per tab"...

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I checked again and all letters seem to be present in both fonts. So the "F" can be had with serifs as well (Times New Roman style).

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Worth mentioning: There is no X or Y present anywhere in the text! Acrobat still manages to create these as editable vector font that fits the style of the other letters. This likely is why I saw the short progress message when I typed the first X, maybe Acrobat looked up fitting fonts in its (onlin...

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Shhh... Editing ClearScan-OCR'ed text is not possible with Ad*be Acr*bat itself (for understandable reasons of legal document security), and it probably should not become widely known that you can "freely edit the text of scanned documents" this way -- using PDF-XChange Editor :o I just c...

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Two years later and 8 years after my original feature request, I am still hoping for a way to sort search result other than chronologically.

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