[suggestion] Add icons for the presence of text and bitmap objects to page thumbnails

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[suggestion] Add icons for the presence of text and bitmap objects to page thumbnails

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Is it possible to hope for the appearance in the PDF-XChange Editor of the ability to see in the sidebar thumbnails of symbols indicating the presence of at least one text and graphic object on each page? Or the absence of these icons on the thumbnails, if there are no such objects on the page.
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Re: [suggestion] Add icons for the presence of text and bitmap objects to page thumbnails

Post by Tracker Supp-Stefan »

Hello Jensen Head,

I will pass this for consideration, but in the mean time please open the contents pane - there you can expand the list of objects on each page, and quickly go through them - text, images and path/vectro items have their own icons:
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Re: [suggestion] Add icons for the presence of text and bitmap objects to page thumbnails

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You are right, this is a working workaround. Although, in the case of such documents
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viewing dozens of pages will turn into Chinese torture.

Also, it is possible to use "select all images in the document", and scroll through all the pages. By the way, if I select "Edit" / "Images"
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and press Ctrl + A, I expect all the images in the document to be selected. Exactly like with "Edit" / "Text" / Ctrl + A - all text objects will be selected.

But both methods cease to be a reasonable waste of time in cases of hundreds of documents daily with dozens of pages each.

Alternatively, you can add a drop-down list with checkboxes for object types to the "Content" sidebar. In the sidebar, only those objects that are marked with checkmarks will be displayed. All items are enabled by default. But you can turn off everything, and leave only one. And the very visual presence of something on the page (in the panel tree) will indicate the presence of the desired type of objects on it.
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Re: [suggestion] Add icons for the presence of text and bitmap objects to page thumbnails

Post by Paul - Tracker Supp »

Thanks for the suggestion Jensen Head, the dev team have suggested there is a concern that the Content Pane would become visually overloaded.

I am afraid the request was not accepted.
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