Timur Born wrote: ↑Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:08 pm Hello everyone!
For me PDF-XChange Viewer beats about every other Windows based PDF browser on the market when it comes to rendering and features! Unfortunately its Search functionality is just as basic (out of the last century) as everything else on the market. Believe it or not, but main reason for me to use OS X from time to time is for getting proper Search functionality for large PDF books.
Basically nearly every Windows PDF viewer only offers to go chronologically back and forward in Search results and even only lists results in chronological order. That's as if we would search the Internet via back and forward one item after the other and makes searching a very time consuming effort.
On OS X the built in Preview PDF viewer and some third party alternatives offer search results that are ordered by relevance (or at least number of hits per page), include thumbnails of relevant pages and colored markings of all found words on a page.
Please consider adding a real and modern Search functionality into PDF-XChange Viewer so that I don't need to fire up OS X just for better PDF handling.
Thanks and regards!
I disagree strongly, especially when we are talking about additional options that leave the current system intact. Sorting by relevance would take bookmarks and headlines into account and then maybe number of hits.TrackerSupp-Daniel wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:52 pm Hello, Timur Born
I can forward these points for consideration to our Development team, but I would advise against getting your hopes up too high here. Offering a chronological list is much more straightforward and predictable than having hinting and relevant searches ongoing to muddle the output. It may seem like it would be better, but the criteria for such "relevance sorting" is FAR more complex than it would appear to be, and would be just as likely to appear almost random, as it would to help in some cases.
It is far more liable to annoy and confuse a large portion of our users who are expecting the simple, straightforward chronological list, if they updated and encountered what you are suggesting.
It may be something that is reconsidered and offered in the far future, but it is not likely to be something that we see for many years yet.
Kind regards,
Most of the times I search for a term the most relevant result is the one that points to a corresponding bookmark which in turn points to the corresponding page that includes corresponding headline. Next in relevance are those results with no corresponding bookmark, but where a chapter's/paragraph's headline already contains the search term or maybe even consists solely of the search term (in my documents even written ALL in capitals). Last, but not least the chances to find relevant content is higher on pages/paragraphs with multiple/more hits of the search term.
Currently Editor's search results take *none* of these into account and does not even allow to use bookmarks in search results to directly go to their corresponding page. I do not want to be forced to search PDF files chronologically anymore than I would want to be forced to search the internet chronologically. And if the first search result is a bookmark (with a high chance of pointing to what I am searching for) then at least allow me to CTRL-click or double-click on that bookmark search result to navigate directly to its corresponding page instead of forcing me to do first go through the bookmark panel.
We are living in the age of big data, with hundreds and thousands of PDF pages being searched for relevant results. PDF software's job is to make these tasks easier and I do not have to fire up MacOS just for better PDF search results. Nowadays even less so than 10 years ago, because I usually avoid MacOS and because its own search results did not improve either.