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by David.P
Mon Nov 20, 2023 12:02 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

Absolutely, on two different PCs. I actually used the .exe file.
by David.P
Mon Nov 20, 2023 11:58 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

Just found this YouTube video on how to install whispering correctly, so I'll try that later when I've got time... How exciting :))) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFqbY_rmEk Haha yes, that video by Kevin Stratvert. That's also where I came from in my desperate search to finally use the Whisper s...
by David.P
Mon Nov 20, 2023 11:49 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

That looks like an awesome sophisticated tool. I use a somewhat simple 'brute force' search script snippet: ;########################### ; Look up "Selected Expression" in Google ;########################### ^Space:: ; Press ALT and SPACE send ^c ; copy current selection WinActivate, - Goo...
by David.P
Mon Nov 20, 2023 11:27 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

Yeah I'm using Ditto as well.

Incidentally, my Windows clipboard just completely crashed for some reason, had to reboot...
by David.P
Mon Nov 20, 2023 11:20 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

Sorry to hear that. Whispering.exe works for me also when the browser extension is deactivated. Maybe there is some issue with transferring the API key correctly via clipboard? image.png What is this cool color-coded search extension called? Is that Isear? Exactly. It's worth gold IMHO. I just hope ...
by David.P
Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:18 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

Yes! OpenAI's Whisper is more of an intelligent interpreter or a human secretary than a dictation program. It even cuts out small duplications like, 'erm corrections', out of the dictation result. Not to mention the near-perfect automatic punctuation :shock: If you are a Capslock hater like most peo...
by David.P
Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:12 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

For me, Whispering.exe works in most applications with this setting:

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by David.P
Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:10 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

🤯🤯 MedBooster.

All the more reason why Whispering would be the suitable application, because it understands all these languages, without the user having to change any settings, usually even directly in the same speech utterance.

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by David.P
Mon Nov 20, 2023 9:57 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

Yes, Stefan, and it seems that MedBooster even speaks all those languages, to some extent at least :shock:
by David.P
Mon Nov 20, 2023 9:44 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

edit: Whispering ... even when using my AP log-in for ChatGPT, it gives me errors, or does not record at all. Too bad that Whispering doesn't work for you. It can be indeed a bit tricky to set up. If you assign a hotkey, you may have to restart Whispering before the hotkey will work. However, I hav...
by David.P
Sun Nov 19, 2023 11:25 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Optional 90° snapping for lines and arrows?
Replies: 25
Views: 1872

Re: Optional 90° snapping for lines and arrows?

I believe that there is a related feature request here : 1) Snap to right angles for callouts When adjusting the "arm" of a callout, I would like to be able to use the shift or ctrl key to constrain movement of the control points to right (or 45 degree) angles . I notice you can do this wi...
by David.P
Sun Nov 19, 2023 11:06 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: speech to text [question] SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 18267

Re: speech to text [question] SOLVED

Some more speech to text tools that work system-wide in Windows: Lilyspeech (based on Google Speech API) lilyspeech.com Whispering (based on ChatGPT Speech API) github.com/braden-w/whispering/releases The latter is based on the best speech recognition engine currently available by far (requiring a C...
by David.P
Sat Nov 18, 2023 4:29 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Delete (or change) many elements with the same object number or text
Replies: 37
Views: 20184

Re: Delete many elements with the same object number or text

If you use that exact command, it will select all shapes in the entire document with just one click. When you're lucky (i.e. when there are no shapes in the document that you'll want to keep), then this should be what you are after.
by David.P
Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:54 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Delete (or change) many elements with the same object number or text
Replies: 37
Views: 20184

Re: Delete many elements with the same object number or text

With some luck and depending on what else you have in your document that you'd want to keep, there is a chance that you could succeed with this command (that also can be found in the "Contents" pane behind the gear icon button):

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by David.P
Fri Nov 17, 2023 10:07 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Delete (or change) many elements with the same object number or text
Replies: 37
Views: 20184

Re: Delete many elements with the same object number or text

Hello all, To my knowledge, a link cannot contain an image, or even formatting (other than the link border format). Here, that link is probably placed over the background, which is why the background may be difficult to select. In other words, the link itself is probably not the unwanted background ...
by David.P
Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:15 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Calling a document level JavaScript with a field button
Replies: 2
Views: 1166

Re: Calling a document level JavaScript with a field button

Okay, I found the solution here: https://answers.acrobatusers.com/How-call-document-level-script-button-q232330.aspx Question How do i call a document level script using a button? I am trying to call a document level script using a button. The script works assigned to the button mouse up action, but...
by David.P
Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:39 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Calling a document level JavaScript with a field button
Replies: 2
Views: 1166

Calling a document level JavaScript with a field button

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, I am having difficulties calling up a JavaScript that I have entered under "Document Properties" ➔ "JavaScript ", via a button in the document. I have named/titled the document level JavaScript "MyDocumentLevelJavaScript". The butto...
by David.P
Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:57 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Foxit style highlighters
Replies: 18
Views: 3276

Re: Foxit style highlighters

Thank you, Dan. I hope that there is room for improvement regarding the selection behavior of superimposed links and highlights. Today I had the usual difficulties selecting highlights in order to add comment text to them, because links were also attached to the same text. Your observation about the...
by David.P
Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:37 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Urgent problem with duplicates of a button and JavaScript
Replies: 6
Views: 3276

Re: Urgent problem with duplicates of a button and JavaScript

Thank you very much, Paul.

Wow, what an incredible fast action.

I'm looking forward to using this feature soon!

Best regards
David
👍
by David.P
Tue Nov 14, 2023 5:23 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Show multiple layers, edit only one layer
Replies: 1
Views: 1020

Show multiple layers, edit only one layer

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, in a document with multiple layers, is it possible to select only elements that are on one of the currently visible layers, for example in order to move them? Especially in cases where (many) elements from different layers overlap each other? Also, (how) is it p...
by David.P
Tue Nov 14, 2023 1:24 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Urgent problem with duplicates of a button and JavaScript
Replies: 6
Views: 3276

Re: Urgent problem with duplicates of a button and JavaScript

Okay thank you very much, Paul.

Let us remove the urgency: I will use a button without icons for the time being, as this way everything works as intended with all copies of the button.

Thank you once more,

Best regards
David
by David.P
Mon Nov 13, 2023 10:39 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Urgent problem with duplicates of a button and JavaScript
Replies: 6
Views: 3276

Re: Urgent problem with duplicates of a button and JavaScript

Attached is a sample file that shows the problem. The main button changes its icon with every click. The two copies of the main button should also change their icon at the same time. They do so when the file is opened in Acr0bat, for example, but not in PDF-XChange Editor. I hope it's just an operat...
by David.P
Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:04 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Urgent problem with duplicates of a button and JavaScript
Replies: 6
Views: 3276

Urgent problem with duplicates of a button and JavaScript

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, either this is a serious issue, or I am doing something wrong here (I hope it's the latter). I have copies of a button (form field) on all pages of my PDF. Then, I'm trying to change the icon of the button using JavaScript. To my knowledge, the expected behavior...
by David.P
Sat Nov 11, 2023 12:17 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: How to select multiple links existing in a rectangular area?
Replies: 25
Views: 2814

Re: How to select multiple links existing in a rectangular area?

Hello all,

I agree, and bear with me posting that attachment another time (see items #2 - #3 with respect to the Links issue).

Best regards
David.P

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Text Selection with Highlights and Links.pdf
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by David.P
Fri Nov 10, 2023 12:56 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Foxit style highlighters
Replies: 18
Views: 3276

Re: Foxit style highlighters

Hi all, there is a related discussion here that shows further non-favorable side effects of the new highlight design, see also #2, #3 and #4 in the screenshot and attachment: A Small Suggestion about Highlighting and Copying Best regards, David image.png Text Selection with Highlights and Links.pdf
by David.P
Fri Nov 10, 2023 12:53 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: A Small Suggestion about Highlighting and Copying
Replies: 8
Views: 2138

Re: A Small Suggestion about Highlighting and Copying

I often find that I am unable to select text that is behind a highlight, even when holding the Shift key: Are you running the latest build at the moment? I ask because the select text tool now has a special handling for highlights specifically, you do not even need to hold shift, when clicking abov...
by David.P
Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:09 pm
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Auto rotate documents?
Replies: 12
Views: 6589

Re: Auto rotate documents?

Many thanks Stefan. Perhaps the lack of this option in that third place (manual scanning in PDF-XChange Editor) was just a small oversight.

Best regards
David
:)
by David.P
Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:19 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Autorecovery not working. Where is recovery information saved?
Replies: 40
Views: 9473

Re: Autorecovery not working. Where is recovery information saved?

Just a quick note to say that the recovery feature has been working flawlessly for me lately 🤞🏼

Thanks for the hard work and for the continuous improvements!

Best regards
David
by David.P
Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:00 pm
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Auto rotate documents?
Replies: 12
Views: 6589

Re: Auto rotate documents?

Yes Stefan, the autorotation option is available in these two places, but it does not seem to be available in the normal scanning dialog of PDF-XChange Editor:

Autorotation not available when scanning in PDF-XChange Editor.png
by David.P
Mon Nov 06, 2023 11:44 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Bulk-edit properties of multiple Bookmarks or Links simultaneously
Replies: 41
Views: 5375

Re: Bulk-edit properties of multiple Bookmarks or Links simultaneously

Hello all, in order to avoid having to use the complex methods for external link bulk-editing as discussed above, here's a friendly reminder as to whether ↓this feature could be discussed with the devs another time? Bulk-Edit Link Actions.png In the case shown, instead of 150 mouse clicks, I would o...
by David.P
Mon Nov 06, 2023 11:34 am
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Auto rotate documents?
Replies: 12
Views: 6589

Re: Auto rotate documents?

Thank you Stefan,

sorry, probably my post is not exactly in the proper sub-forum, as my above screenshot shows the Scanning dialog option in PDF-XChange Editor, not in PDF-Tools.

It seems that an option for auto-rotation does not exist over there, or does it?

Best regards
David
by David.P
Mon Nov 06, 2023 9:40 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Base Content in Stamp
Replies: 26
Views: 7596

Re: Base Content in Stamp

Phil, are you sure you want to make a "stamp" from the copied piece? You can also just switch to the hand tool after copying, and paste the copied item. It will then be inserted as a comment element. It can be set to partially transparent then, and when you like the positioning, you remove...
by David.P
Sat Nov 04, 2023 1:17 pm
Forum: PDF-Tools
Topic: Auto rotate documents?
Replies: 12
Views: 6589

Re: Auto rotate documents?

Hello all, I am also wondering about this, as my documents do not seem to be rotated automatically after scanning. Shouldn't this setting in the scan settings ensure that text recognition automatically rotates documents after scanning: image.png Even pure text pages that are clearly rotated by 90 or...
by David.P
Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:27 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Editor crashes when resizing A4 pages to Letter
Replies: 1
Views: 528

Editor crashes when resizing A4 pages to Letter

Hello Forum and Tracker Support Team, I have been noticing for some time that PDF-XChange Editor crashes on some documents as soon as the page size is changed from the existing page size A4 to "Letter"with the following settings. image.png I have attached a document where this occurs. Lo a...
by David.P
Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:31 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Feature Request: Enable Browser Extension to Capture Entire Webpage as Screenshot
Replies: 4
Views: 598

Re: Feature Request: Enable Browser Extension to Capture Entire Webpage as Screenshot

Hello all,

in the meantime, try the awesome Opera browser for [vectorial] Web to PDF conversion. Just right click in the page and choose "Save as PDF".

Enjoy!

https://www.opera.com/browsers/portable
by David.P
Wed Oct 18, 2023 1:14 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Copy And Paste Without Linebreaks
Replies: 32
Views: 4090

Re: Copy And Paste Without Linebreaks

Thanks for your information Stefan, I had tried the script initially and it seemed to have worked. I just can't remember for sure if I had already uncommented the lines in question or not. Anyway, after reviewing the code several times, I believe that the script can really only fully work if at leas...
by David.P
Mon Oct 16, 2023 6:01 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Hatch pattern tool SOLVED
Replies: 42
Views: 21223

Re: Hatch pattern tool SOLVED

I continue to have no suitable words for the fantastic work Mathew is doing here on this feature. I hope to be able to contribute something meaningful to this soon, but still need some preparation to do so.

Kind regards
David
by David.P
Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:44 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Copy And Paste Without Linebreaks
Replies: 32
Views: 4090

Re: Copy And Paste Without Linebreaks

Hello all, I am trying to put this script into practice. But it can't even work this way, can it? The essential part that removes line breaks within paragraphs is commented out: ; Replace a single newline with a space ;StringReplace Clipboard, Clipboard, %A_Space% `r`n, %A_Space%, All ;StringReplace...
by David.P
Sun Oct 15, 2023 5:34 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: How Get Drawing to Straddle Page Separation?
Replies: 3
Views: 398

Re: How Get Drawing to Straddle Page Separation?

The only way to do this is to duplicate the object to the next page and then to arrange it such that it seems to be the object from the previous page spilling over to this page.
by David.P
Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:03 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Remove dark edges from scanned documents
Replies: 7
Views: 761

Re: Remove dark edges from scanned documents

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

;)
by David.P
Thu Oct 12, 2023 10:57 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Feature Request: Easier Font Embedding
Replies: 19
Views: 2478

Re: Feature Request: Easier Font Embedding

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...
by David.P
Wed Oct 11, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Modify a document's Initial View settings more easily?
Replies: 3
Views: 320

Re: Modify a document's Initial View settings more easily?

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...
by David.P
Wed Oct 11, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Custom style is applied as standard style (but shouldn't)
Replies: 11
Views: 2227

Re: Custom style is applied as standard style (but shouldn't)

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...
by David.P
Wed Oct 11, 2023 11:22 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Modify a document's Initial View settings more easily?
Replies: 3
Views: 320

Modify a document's Initial View settings more easily?

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...
by David.P
Wed Oct 11, 2023 10:49 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Custom style is applied as standard style (but shouldn't)
Replies: 11
Views: 2227

Re: Custom style is applied as standard style (but shouldn't)

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 ...
by David.P
Tue Oct 10, 2023 5:43 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: A Small Suggestion about Highlighting and Copying
Replies: 8
Views: 2138

Re: A Small Suggestion about Highlighting and Copying

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...
by David.P
Sun Oct 08, 2023 3:08 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: If windows are displayed independently, 'Browse for Link Target' dialog may be hidden behind window when setting a link
Replies: 6
Views: 2643

Re: If windows are displayed independently, 'Browse for Link Target' dialog may be hidden behind window when setting a l

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...
by David.P
Fri Sep 29, 2023 9:58 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Copying and pasting comments via clipboard increases file size in proportion to the number of times they are copied
Replies: 6
Views: 696

Re: Copying and pasting comments via clipboard increases file size in proportion to the number of times they are copied

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...
by David.P
Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:57 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Custom style is applied as standard style (but shouldn't)
Replies: 11
Views: 2227

Re: Custom style is applied as standard style (but shouldn't)

Sorry for the late reply. Will come back to this asap :shock:
by David.P
Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:42 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
Topic: Powerpoint to PDF consequtive object reveal question
Replies: 17
Views: 1335

Re: Powerpoint to PDF consequtive object reveal question

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...