Hope for supporting Japanese reading style (page-layout)

[massan]

We Japanese uses writing in Horizontal style and in Vertical style, but most of Japanese books are written in Vertical style and we read the lines from Right to Left. So the page-order is usually from Right to Left.

[A]
(LEFT) (RIGHT)
P2,P4,P6... P1,P3,P5...

But PDF-XChange Viewer doesn't support this reading style now.
In "Facing" or "Continuous-Facing" layout, the pages are usually layouted below.
It causes a lot of pain for us to see PDF in this layout.

[B]
(LEFT) (RIGHT)
P1,P3,P5... P2,P4,P6...

Such reading style may be particular in Japanese language or some Eastern-Asia languages maybe, but I hope you'll support this by adding the new layout style in the future.*

* "Adobe reader" seems to support recognizing the binding side of PDFs, and if the PDF is created by "Right Binding", its' view will change like [A]. But it's not good solution because it's not easy to change properties of every PDF in vertical Japanese style. So I expect the additional new page-layout in PDF-XChange Viewer.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

The horizontal scrolling layout suggested in this post hasn't been implemented yet. Would that work for Japanese too if there was a reverse order option, or is something different required?

[massan]

Wow! What a great suggestion!
It's more excellent than what I hope.
I'm sure that if there is a reverse order option just as you wrote, all Japanese users take pleasure in it.
We Japanese really long for the implementation.

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi massan,

I'm very pleased that this is what you are looking for.