Panning past sheet edge

[Limeade]

I am moving over from Bluebeam to PDFXchange, one thing that is annoying me is that I cant pan past the edge of the sheet. See the attached example from Bluebeam vs PDFXchange. Is there a way to enable this or is it not something that PDFXchange can do at all. The nice thing about this feature is that I can put the corner or edge of the sheet in the middle of my screen rather than keeping it at the corner or edge of my screen which is difficult to read sometimes.

PDFXchange:

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Bluebeam:

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[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Limeade

Thank you for the post, This has come up a few times, but at this time we are not planning an implementation of this feature. That may change in the future, and I will add your voice to the votes for it, but I cannot make any promises.

Kind regards,

[Limeade]

Thanks for the quick reply, is there a feature request or something that I can bookmark to keep track of this?

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Limeade

Nothing at the moment I am afraid.

Kind regards,

[Mathew]

Thanks for the quick reply, is there a feature request or something that I can bookmark to keep track of this?

I went looking for a past post - I'm certain there are a few - but could not think of the correct search terms. I'm of the same opinion: The limitations on scrolling pages outside the page boundary are very frustrating to me. I did make a tool that helps with dealing with viewing and accessing markups that go outside the page boundary: viewtopic.php?p=188981#p188981

But there are cases where a dialog will block the lower right corner, for example, and there's no way to access the corner. For example, if it were possible to scroll past the edge of pages, then the following would not be a problem:

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or

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Sometimes, just trying to scroll past the edge of the page when viewed in single page layout will make the page jump to the next page -- even more frustrating. I advocate that this long-standing issue gets seriously reconsidered. Thanks!

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Mathew

As before, I cannot make any promises, but the team will be looking at it soon to reconsider..

Kind regards,

[PHK]

One dirty workaround might be to Resize the page (either dimesions or percentages) so that the true content has sufficient margin around it. Like a matted picture in a frame.

If so desired, you could Resize back to the original dimensions when you are "done."

[Mathew]

One dirty workaround might be to Resize the page (either dimesions or percentages) so that the true content has sufficient margin around it. Like a matted picture in a frame.

If so desired, you could Resize back to the original dimensions when you are "done."

Yes that’s what my script does although it doesn’t do it for all sides…. Hmm. But I don’t think that is a viable option for many cases (locked pdfs, very large files, files that I shouldn’t make changes to, etc)

[PHK]

.that's why I call it dirty.

[PHK]

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Yes that’s what my script does although it doesn’t do it for all sides….

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The upper screenshot shows how you can center your content for all-around margins in this admittedly overblown example (for illustration purposes only).

Hmm. But I don’t think that is a viable option for many cases (locked pdfs, very large files, files that I shouldn’t make changes to, etc)

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The lower screenshot is meant to put to bed that there is a problem with "very large files", another absurdity for illustration purposes.

If one cannot make changes (locked, etc.), then just zooming out a specific amount that suits one's needs in seeing what needs to be seen.

[Mathew]

The lower screenshot is meant to put to bed that there is a problem with "very large files", another absurdity for illustration purposes.

If one cannot make changes (locked, etc.), then just zooming out a specific amount that suits one's needs in seeing what needs to be seen.

Yes, those workarounds are things one tries. Yet it is still very frustrating to use -- particularly knowing that much older versions of PXCE (or "viewer") did not have this limitation, so for some reason it was implemented at some stage -- possibly due to a "large user" demand (ie a gorilla).

I wasn't clear: by "very large files" I meant in number of pages or filesize or sometimes the pages take quite a while to render due to heavy bitmap images or complex/dense pdf linework. Understood one could zoom out, but then very difficult/impossible to select/draw/read. Even if one could pan a reasonable amount past all page edges, it would mitigate this issue somewhat.

[PHK]

Oh, don’t get me wrong: I support your position. As it might be a long time (or never) before app implementation, just suggesting workarounds.