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David.P

You could also do this:

Or this:
https://support.brother.com/g/b/faqend.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=ads3600w_all&faqid=faq00100246_000#:~:text=Select%20Margin,image

David.P

Hello all, I would so much love to see this issue fixed. It shouldn't be that hard to add a feature and button named "embed all fonts", or is it...? Even better, of course, would be to have a button near a fonts list, perhaps on the text properties toolbar, named for example " Embed t...

David.P

Thank you Stefan, this seems to be in line with something I just found: You can't set Initial View using JavaScript https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-sdk-discussions/how-can-i-programmatically-set-document-properties-gt-initial-view/td-p/11466915#:~:text=You%20can%27t%20set%20Initial%20View%20u...

David.P

Hello Stefan, this, of course, explains a lot. Now I also remember that I faced the same problem some years ago (with the different line styles) and then managed to solve it in the same way, only forgot how I did it... Thus, instead of the default "complex" Oval Tool, I created another cus...

David.P

Hello all, is there a way to set certain Initial View settings with one or a few clicks, to a document that is currently open? I mostly use the below default settings, and to set them I have to click about eight times in the various fields of that dialog: image.png Is it possible to do this, for exa...

David.P

Thanks @all the feedback so far! I still can't figure this out. I have had different line styles in my toolbar for a long time: image.png There, I can simply click on the respective button in the toolbar, and then draw a line in the desired format, for example hairline, arrow, connector, or default ...

David.P

Hello all, I often find that I am unable to select text that is behind a highlight, even when holding the Shift key: Exclusive Mode Enable/Disable exclusive mode for the active tool. Hold Shift to enable Exclusive Mode temporarily. https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxt10/index.html?keyboard-shortcuts_e...

David.P

Hello all, I can confirm this, and it also happens with other dialogs, for example with the properties toolbar and even with whole panes such as for example the thumbnail pane (when it is undocked). If multiple independent main windows are present, then, very often, floating toolbars or panes that b...

David.P

Hello all, I agree that it would be ideal if comment images (bitmaps) were saved just once in a PDF file, irrespective of how many times they're duplicated. For bitmap images that are part of the base content, this is already how it works. This feature is incredibly useful. For instance, if you have...

David.P

Sorry for the late reply. Will come back to this asap

David.P

Maybe the PPspliT add-in for PowerPoint might help: https://www.maxonthenet.altervista.org/ppsplit.php It prints every step in the animation to a separate page. The destination printer can be PDF-XChange Standard or Lite. PPspliT it is! Steve 'PowerPoint' Rindsberg: If you need to export a slide at...

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, I have created a custom rectangle comment style called "movable highlight", and added a button in the toolbar for this style: image.png However, as soon as I click on the button, the style is applied as the default style for comment rectangles. Expecte...

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, Attached is a document with several Goto-links, two of which do not work, however only in Adobe Reader. I don't see any difference between the non-working links and other links in the document. I even just recreated both links here, and the second of the two lin...

David.P

Hello all, it would be an awesome addition if it would be made possible to add internal links to comment text in a similar way this can be done with base content text. The latter is done by selecting, for example, a word of base content text, then hitting the hotkey for "Add Link", and the...

David.P

So it wasn't totally trivial after all, but finally was accomplished in a lengthy discussion with General Chatty 🤖. The Python script below extracts all comment texts from an XFDF (comments) file as exported from PDF-XChange Editor, and writes them to a Word table. The Word table can then be transla...

David.P

That's a very helpful hint, rakunavi.

This way, it should be much easier for the chatty (pretrained) colleague, General T., to identify and translate all comment text in the XML file.

Thanks very much!
Best regards
David

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, I am currently trying to (programmatically) translate the comments from a large PDF file from German to English. To do so, I have exported the comments as FDF file. Unfortunately, in the FDF file some comments seem to be in an unidentifiable, difficult to read e...

David.P

Hello all, In "Image Details", there is a zone with "Image"-info and a zone with "Mask"-info (something special that I have not yet seen before). So, it seems like the image of the page consists of two parts. A first part with 180x295 pixels in JPEG2000-format (5,11 KB)...

David.P

What I usually do is, do a "Resize Pages" to something like 105% -- without resizing the content.

David.P

bqxmprij wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:34 am Hopefully others agree.

Having proudly suggested both the original multicolor highlighting back in 2013 as well as the persistent multicolor highlighting mentioned by Willy above, I surely do

David.P

We currently have an open feature request to add controls like this to the software, though it is a longstanding one and has proven to be low priority, I will be adding your support to it in hopes that can change! RT#3923:FR: Option for navigate backward/forward to work only in current document and...

David.P

You could try this:

This should make subsequent searches (after an initial search) about 100 times faster, i.e. practically instantaneous.

David.P

I see Stefan, thank you for the analysis! I shall follow your suggestion and remove the unnecessary layers from the affected files for the time being. It is good that the developers are taking a look at the issue, since the previous versions of PDF-XChange Editor did not have any performance problem...

David.P

Thank you for notifying me, Daniel. I realized that for some reason, the email was still unsent in my drafts.

It has been sent now and should soon arrive.

Kind regards
David

David.P

Thank you Daniel. I have now sent the file via email. I had been trying to also delete most of the layers from the file. For one however, this took about an hour, during which PDF-XChange Editor was unresponsive. Secondly, the issue no longer occurred after deleting the layers. Therefore, I'm sendin...

David.P

Ok so I removed literally everything from that file, it's only 5 pages of (newly added) text now – and the file still has the same performance problems in Editor v.10 (but not in earlier versions, as before). Simply clicking between the text highlights on page 1 makes Editor become laggy or even unr...

David.P

Yes Stefan I always keep a few older (portable) versions of the Editor around for such tests. The same file behaves flawlessly in, for example, version 9.2.358.0. Please note that opening the file does not take noticeably longer in v.10, only navigation between, or deletion of, comments, as describe...

David.P

Hello Stefan, thank you for your quick reply. The file in question has been created over several years by constantly adding new pages, mostly from PDF, and sometimes as Word files, or as RTF content from the clipboard. I have been doing this with thousands of other files, while admittedly, this is t...

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, I am just noticing that since v.10, there can be severe performance issues with very large documents. Admittedly I could reproduce the issue so far only with my largest document, which has around 9000 pages at 800 MB size. Even just changing the selection betwee...

David.P

Hello all, 2) Earlier in this thread, there was a question from David.P about "up-sampling". Did something happen with this question? Maybe a feature request? For easier reference, this question/request was about automatically increasing (color) resolution first , and only then converting ...

David.P

Thanks Vladimir, awesome

David.P

Thank you Daniel and Vladimir. I shall check on what you mentioned. Another related question about PDF-Tools please: When batch OCR'ing a folder with many PDF files: is it true that PDF Tools does not save any of the files until all of them are processed? I get a lot of messages in PDF-Tools that &q...

David.P

Never mind Daniel,

If you could maybe tell me where (e.g. in the Registry?) the installed version saves custom Tools and settings, I will look that up on my laptop.

David.P

Thank you Daniel. As far as I know, PDF Tools has not crashed. However, I had opened it once while the OCR processing described above was still running in the background. Already at that point, the OCR tool in question was no longer present. Please note that I'm running PDF-Tools "portable"...

David.P

O.k. so now I just OCR'ed 15 documents simultaneously via context menu . This worked very well, even though my computer was at 100% CPU load for 10 minutes because the process opened 15 little instances of PDF Tools like this one: image(1).png (It would probably be better if the documents were handl...

David.P

Awesome, thank you Denis.
Best regards
David

David.P

Thanks OVG! Unfortunately, this context menu entry does not exist for me, probably because I run PDF Tools in portable mode. However, I have since found out that you can create a context menu entry (named "OCR-EN" in this case) for PDF Tools by creating the following entry in the registry ...

David.P

I just saw that by right-clicking on any tool in PDF Tools, you can create a shortcut to that tool on the Desktop, and then drag and drop any PDF file onto that shortcut to have it processed, for example have it OCR'ed. That's amazing. It seems that an OCR progress dialog appears when doing this. Is...

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, is there any way to use PDF Tools to create a shortcut, or even a context menu in Windows Explorer, in order to have any PDF, in any location, OCRed in the background? In other words, similar to the watched folder feature , but independent of the location of the...

David.P

Incredible.

This is the best, smoothest and most intuitive implementation of editable Bézier curves that I have ever seen in any program.

The Tracker Devs are true masters of world-class coding wizardry.

Thank you very much for this feature addition.

Kind regards
David.P

David.P

Mathew wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 6:06 pm Here's a tool I made to draw hatch patterns inside annotation markup.

What did I just read!?

Amazing!

David.P

Hello all, I am afraid that no - you can not convert vector shapes that are base content to annotations either, sorry. I believe that there is a way to do that... However, I'm hesitant to write about it because this is such an amazing killer feature of PDF-XChange Editor that I'd rather not have the...

David.P

Thanks Stefan! Yes I have saved occasionally. Also I have set Autosave to 3 minutes

David.P

You can also click just outside the visible paper of the page using the Edit Content tool. If the cropped content is not yet removed, then that content will appear selected (in its original size, exceeding the page size).

David.P

Hello Forum and Tracker Support, after working on a file for a few hours, I just got the following error message: image.png This was because the connection to the file server was lost for about 20 minutes. I have now re-established the server connection. What do I do now so that the edits to the fil...

David.P

Hello all,

You should be able to select any number of text boxes and then assign a common format to everything, including the text inside, like so:

Cheers & Hth
David

David.P

This is already being worked on, see here

David.P

That's good to know! Now that I think about it, Rasterize Pages is indeed better than Recompress Images for this use case, since only with the former is it possible to set the output resolution of the black and white bitmaps higher than the input resolution of the scanned images, thus obtaining very...

David.P

I think I will stay with Rasterize pages. Yes that can be somewhat more straightforward. If you check the resolution of the bitmaps in your PDF before rasterizing (by right-clicking on a page's bitmap and opening the "Recompress Image" dialog), and then specify the same resolution for Ras...

David.P

I tried with Recompress Images, but I did not get any result. Make sure to set all rows/entries in the Recompress Images dialog exactly as in my screenshot above/below, in order to ensure that all image types (color, indexed etc.) are converted to black and white: Recompress Images.png I also can't...

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