When links are selected from the results filtered by keywords in Links pane, previous selections are also included

[rakunavi]

Hello all,

I have found that when links are selected from the results filtered by keywords in the Links pane, previous selections are also unintentionally included. Please see the following verification procedure for details.

Verification procedure

Step 0

• The sample file contains 10 red, 20 green, and 30 blue text items as base content. Each text is surrounded by links with black borders. In other words, there are 60 link annotations in total.
  
  
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  sample.pdf

Step 1

• Open the Links pane and filter by the keyword "red" to show a total of 10 links. Then select all 10 links by clicking at the beginning of these items and Shift+clicking at the end. This is confirmed by the fact that the Info Bar at the bottom of the Links pane will show "10 items selected". Finally, change the link border color from the Format tab to red, which will change all the link borders around the 10 red text items to red, as intended.

Step 2

• Next, filtering by the keyword "green" will show a total of 20 links. Next select all 20 links by clicking at the beginning of these items and Shift+clicking at the end. This is confirmed by showing "20 items selected" in the Info Bar at the bottom of the Links pane. Finally, from the Format tab, change the color of the link borders to green. However, not only the 20 items selected, but also the 10 items selected in Step 1 are changed to green.

Step 3

• Next, filtering by the keyword "blue", a total of 30 links are shown. Next, click at the beginning of these items and Shift+click at the end to select all 30 links. This is confirmed by showing "30 items selected" in the Info Bar at the bottom of the Links pane. Finally, from the Format tab, change the color of the link borders to blue. However, not only the 30 items selected, but also all 60 items, including the 10 items selected in Step 1 and the 20 items selected in Step 2, are changed to blue.

Step 4

• After removing the filtering keywords, you can see that a total of 60 links have been selected. This can be confirmed by showing "60 items selected" in the Info Bar at the bottom of the Links pane.

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The final result of the above procedure is as follows.

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However, many users might expect the above procedure to produce the following results.

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Final thoughts

I just reported a similar issue with the Comments pane in the following topic.

• After filtering in Comments pane, right-clicking on group title may bring up Context menu based on unintended selection
  viewtopic.php?t=47051

However, when multiple comments are selected from the filtering results in the Comments pane, the previous selections are once removed and only the newly selected items are selected. The number of selected items shown in the Info Bar at the bottom of each pane corresponds to the number of items actually affected by the command in the Comments pane, but not in the Links pane, as in Step 2 and Step 3 of the example above. The Comments pane does not add selections like the Links pane does, so I see this as a different issue in that sense.

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Hoping that the above information will be of some help to you.
Thank you so much for your continued support.

Best regards,
rakunavi

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[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, rakunavi

I see the same!

RT#7580: Bug: Link pane Search+Group selection errors

Kind regards,

[rakunavi]

Thank you, Daniel, for creating the ticket!

Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule.
Please give my best regards to developers.

Best regards,
rakunavi

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]