About sharing/merging presets [Question]

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About sharing/merging presets [Question]

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Is it possible to share specific stamps, or presets (for typewriter, sticky notes, callout tool, arrow etc...)
without sharing your whole preset library?

And then, how would you import it, without it overwriting presets you already have?

I don't see any "merge presets" button when importing settings...
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Re: About sharing/merging presets [Question]

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Hello, MedBooster

At the moment, we do not offer a merge presets function, but I can definitely see the merit in that and am passing the idea along to the Dev team for consideration.

RT#6474: FR: Add "merge presets" option to import settings"

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Re: About sharing/merging presets [Question]

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TrackerSupp-Daniel wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:48 pm Hello, MedBooster

At the moment, we do not offer a merge presets function, but I can definitely see the merit in that and am passing the idea along to the Dev team for consideration.

RT#6474: FR: Add "merge presets" option to import settings"

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It would be a great feature to have, that's for sure!

Imagine you are working at an office, where you would want all PDF-comments to use the same fonts and colors, that way you could share presets, without people losing their other customized presets.

If you were to import presets, is that separate from the shortcut layout, ribbons and keyboard shortcuts?

Would I .. let's say be able to export my rectangle/typewriter/stamps ... etc. so that a friend could use the same stamps and other presets like shapes and text input tools, without losing the stamps he already has?
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Re: About sharing/merging presets [Question]

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Hello, MedBooster

Presets are indeed separate from the ribbon layout and hotkeys and such. The latter items are included in the "common" section of the settings export, and in the future we may consider offering some fine tuning on which of those to import, but for now, comment "styles" and items like the "presets" flyouts for the Headers and footers tools are what is included in this request.

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Re: About sharing/merging presets [Question]

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TrackerSupp-Daniel wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 5:38 pm Hello, MedBooster

Presets are indeed separate from the ribbon layout and hotkeys and such. The latter items are included in the "common" section of the settings export, and in the future we may consider offering some fine tuning on which of those to import, but for now, comment "styles" and items like the "presets" flyouts for the Headers and footers tools are what is included in this request.

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Great!
Would you then lets say be able to only export your rectangles, or just some (not all) of the callout tool presets (comment style example)? Or would you then have to export *everything* , and then import *everything*, and then basically just delete the excess?
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Re: About sharing/merging presets [Question]

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Hello, MedBooster

It would most likely still be a process of exporting everything, and then importing/merging everything, and manually deleting the excess.

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Re: About sharing/merging presets [Question]

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On a similar note.
Can I share just 1 stamp, even though it is a "dynamic" stamp? Or are those unsharable?
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in case you are curious about dynamic stamps I found this great video by the "PDF-XChange Editor" YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOALVMeasKY
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Re: About sharing/merging presets [Question]

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Hello MedBooster,

Stamps are stored in stamp collections - and each collection had it's own separate file. You can share the files even if the collection is only one dynamic stamp, and this KB article explains the steps:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgeba ... ers-to-use

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