Hi Russell,
I hope I havent stretched the friendship with my many questions ?
Thank you so much for your help ... very much appreciated
No worries at all. That's why we're here
Q1: How did you get two rows of toolbars, no captions?
- but particularly the multiple rows. Are they custom tbars or modified existing tbars ?
- if I can get my tools area looking like yours and with "Properties" tbar all in one row I would be a very happy camper
Whether or not there are captions depends on how expanded/contracted your toolbars are, as well as how much space is available on screen. i.e. That's how it looks on my 16" laptop, but I have the same customization (via settings export/import), on my 28" screens back in Canada and the captions do show. Also, the drop-down with all of my custom presets is not a drop-down on the 28" screen, it is a full toolbar with all of the toolbar available with 1 button click.
The toolbar can be expanded/contracted by hovering your cursor over the little 'bridge' between two toolbars, until a small double-headed arrow appears, then left clicking and dragging up/down.
Extra Menus after "Help"
- ie, "Advanced", "About", "Reset Settings" ... (ignoring "Licence Key" for obvious reasons)
- I assume all controls (commands) ?
That's right - the UI Customization is available after you go to
View --> Toolbars --> Customize Toolbars. You can then drag and drop to rearrange toolbars & menu items, as well as drag Commands from the Commands tab, onto a toolbar or under a menu heading.
Row #3 "Exclusive Mode"
- is the contents of that row one tbar
- "Properties" caption is not the default "No Properties" when no document is open
- or is "Properties" a custom command to enable the floating TBar as illustrated on "Toolbar_2.png"
The Properties Toolbar, as you may have noticed already, is a dynamic toolbar who's options change, depending on the given context (i.e. Which tool or object is selected). Some tools do not have any options (i.e. Hand Tool, Text Select Tool, etc.), this is why you'll sometimes see "No Properties".
The floating toolbar that you mentioned, from Toolbar 2.png, is actually not a floating toolbar, it just looks like it in the screen-shot. This is actually a sub-menu, as there is not enough space on the screen to fit all of those tools onto one toolbar, so the Editor compensates by automatically creating a "Commenting" button, that then expands down into a sub-menu with all of those tools. If you look carefully at Toolbar 2.png, you should see the little drop-down arrow, in the right-hand corner of the "Commenting" button. Again, this is dependent on how much toolbar space is available and how much is needed.
Are all your tbars custom tbars ?
To some degree, yes. I've removed some things from row two, as well as added some and have added some to the first row (the menu row).
I know the tiny triangle-thingy(TTs) at the beginning of each toolbar -- hides/shows the Tbar.
- clicking on one of those TTs is like threading a needle with boxing gloves on
I have to agree with that, but it is very hard to balance the large enough icons with precious space. I'll speak with the Dev. Team to see if they can at least make the activation radius a little larger, so that users don't have to be so specific with their clicks.
Can custom Toolbars be toggled show/hide with custom commands ?
- JavaScript ? ... as per Customize dialog > Commands (tab) > JavaScript Console
- I have fiddled a little with JScript in MS-VBA and script-files -- is JavaScript one in the same ?
- if it is I will have to dust of my notes plus a lot of coffee to get my head around JScript again
That is a very good question........ I'm not 100% sure offhand, but I don't believe so and, unless I'm being dense, can't find the option. I'll put this forward too.
Do I overwrite my existing version v5.5.308.2 with the extracted "PDFXV5.zip"
The ZIP folder contains an executable - if you run this EXE, it will simply overwrite your existing installation. If you installed using the MSI previously, I would
Strongly recommend that you uninstall the Editor and restart your computer first. If you can't remember which you used previously, it may be best to just uninstall and restart as a precaution.
How does modifying default menus "maximise toolbar space" ?
In essence, this would allow you to remove many (or all) toolbar items, except for the menus. You could then add all of the commands that you use to different menus and/or sub-menus, to make everything that you need, available from one menu. This means that there is no clutter on the toolbar, but it may (depending on how many things you shove under one menu/sub-menu), make the menu a little large for the screen. It's just another option when thinking of organizing.
I just checked and it appears that the option to create new, custom menus is greyed out, so I would suspect that this hasn't yet been implemented, but is planned. I've contacted the Dev. to confirm this and am waiting to hear back (he's in Canada [PST -8:00 UTC]).
The following is my own settings files. I've included one with my custom colouration and one without (it's definitely not for everyone - my colleagues hate it
), you may find them to your liking, or at least a good starting point for further customization:
Let me know if you have any other questions