Allow customization of font for tooltips in Link Annotations and Form Fields

[rakunavi]

Hello all,

In PDF-XChange Editor, the font for tooltips in link annotations and form fields appears to be fixed to Arial and cannot be changed. When a tooltip contains non-Latin characters, such as Japanese glyphs, the Latin characters are displayed in Arial while the Japanese glyphs fall back to "MS P Mincho."

I would like to suggest that these tooltips respect the font settings configured in "Customize UI" for the following reasons:

#1 Visual Consistency

• Arial is a sans-serif font, whereas "MS P Mincho" is a serif font. This mixture creates a lack of visual unity. For English users, this would be as jarring as having alphabets forced into Arial while numbers are forced into Times New Roman within the same string.

#2 Character Mapping Issues (Backslash vs. Yen Sign)

• In Japanese fonts, the backslash (U+005C) is typically rendered as a Yen symbol (¥).
  
  When the file path of the GoToR action is displayed as a tooltip for a link annotation, the backslash is rendered as a Latin character in the Arial font, causing it to appear as a backslash rather than a Yen symbol.
  
  On the other hand, in standard UI field such as the Links pane and action dialogs, the entire string is displayed in the same font. Therefore, if a Japanese font is set in Customize UI, the backslash will appear as a Yen symbol.
  
  This results in inconsistencies between tooltips and the display in Links pane and action dialogs, leading to a lack of consistency in the user experience.

Since all other UI elements follow the font specified in Customize UI, applying this setting to link and form field tooltips would resolve both issues mentioned above.

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This report assumes that the Windows language setting is Japanese and that the font setting in PDF-XChange Editor's Customize UI is the default “Yu Gothic UI”. However, even if the Windows language setting remains English, specifying the “Yu Gothic UI” font in PDF-XChange Editor's Customize UI should produce display results consistent with the verification results.

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It would be wonderful if this could be implemented in a future update. Thank you for your consideration.

Best regards,
rakunavi

- PDF-XChange Editor PRO Version: 10.8.2 build 407
- OS Version: Windows 11 Pro / Home 25H2 Build 26200.7623
- PC Model: GMKtec Nucbox M7 Pro with HUION Kamvas Pro 19 / Lenovo IdeaPad C340-15IWL

[Sean - PDF-XChange]

Hi Rakunavi - I've passed this on to the team.

Kind regards,