Typewriter font size

[RNFolsom]

In PDF-XChange Pro, I need to reduce the Typewriter font size, because I need to add comments to several consecutive lines in a PDF document that are in a smaller font than the default Typewriter font height. With the default typewriter font, my comments now cannot fit on the document's consecutive lines (aka rows, which have plenty of horizontal space for comments).

I could not find the word "font" in the PDF-XChange help (i.e. in the PDF-XChange Viewer Manual of 205 pages).

So I did a search of the FAQs here, and from the "Default font style for Viewer Typewriter" thread (https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/ ... =29&t=5281) I downloaded the document "HOW_defformat.pdf."

I was able to do HOW_defformat's steps 1 and 2, which give me a Properties toolbar with the following icons:
Fill color vs No Fill; Stroke Color; Border Style; Border Width; Opacity; Blend Mode; and Keep Tool Selected;
but nothing about font size.

Step 3 does deal with font size, but it has me buffaloed. It says:

"3) Start a new session for commenting, using the selected tool, or double click on exiting. Now the Properties toolbar will contain alternatives which allow you to change the text formatting as shown in the image above."

But I cannot get that image (which includes the ability to change font type, boldface, italics, et. al., and most important for me, a smaller font size), because I do not know how to start a new session for commenting (obviously, this is my first effort to comment anything), and I can't find "exiting" in order to double-click on it. (I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean the exit X in the upper right corner of PDF-Xchange Viewer!)

The Comments menu includes:
Flatten Comments, Summarize Comments, Show Comments, Export Comments to Data File, Show Comments List, and Show Comments Styles Palette,
but I cannot find a "Start a New Session" for commenting command.

I would much appreciate any comments, suggestions, or help.

Roger Folsom

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Roger,

The third step wants you to either double click in an existing typed text, or start a new one, and you can then edit the font size.

Please also have a look at this KB article which shoul dbe a bit clearer as "A picture is worth a thousand words" as they say
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowled ... -box-tools

Best,
Stefan

[RNFolsom]

The third step wants you to either double click in an existing typed text, or start a new one, and you can then edit the font size.

Stefan:

Thanks very much for that explanation. But please note:

HOW_defformat.pdf says:
"3) Start a new session for commenting, using the selected tool, or double click on exiting. Now the Properties toolbar will contain alternative options which allow you to change the text formatting as shown in the image above."

The PDF-XChange Viewer v2.5x Manual, on page 195, says:
"3) Start new commenting of selected type, or double click on exiting. Now Properties Toolbar will contain items which allow you to change text formatting."

Both use the word "exiting" rather than "existing." Those two words are pronounced differently and spelled differently and have very different meanings!

Please get somebody to fix that in both locations. (My original post said that "font" didn't appear in the 205 page Help menu, but I have since discovered that to be wrong. How my search missed it, I know not. Maybe I misspelled "font".)

Inspired by your clear wording, I suggest that both locations should say the following:

"3) Either start a new commenting session [although I still I don't know how to do that, given that steps 1) and 2) have already been done], or else double click in an existing comment's typed text. Now the Properties toolbar will contain alternative options for changing text formatting" with the rest (if any) of that sentence depending on whether the editing is in HOW_defformat.pdf or in the PDF-XChange Viewer v2.5x Manual.

Also, in the Manual, perhaps someone for whom English is their primary language should make minor edits to the entire page to include articles (e.g. "the") where they are needed. But that's a minor stylistic nit, especially compared to the difference between "exiting" and "existing."

Thanks also for the link to the KB article.

Roger Folsom

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Thanks for the comments Roger,

I will pass them to the person that is currently in charge of updating and tweaking the manuals (and English is his native language).

Some of our developers are not native speakers and most of the information in the manuals comes from the dev team.
I hope that you will excuse us for missing this part while proof reading.

We have changed that particular section corrected in HOW_defformat.pdf and will attend to the Viewer manual for the next update.

Definitely exiting and exiSting are quite different

Best,
Stefan

[RNFolsom]

Stefan:

HOW_defformat.pdf is definitely improved. Fast work!

In my previous post, I wrote:

"3) Either start a new commenting session [although I still I don't know how to do that, given that steps 1) and 2) have already been done], or else double click in an existing comment's typed text. Now the Properties toolbar will contain alternative options for changing text formatting" with the rest (if any) of that sentence depending on whether the editing is in HOW_defformat.pdf or in the PDF-XChange Viewer v2.5x Manual.

After adding some Typewriter comments to some documents, I have learned a bit, and I would now recommend the following wording instead of my wording above:

"3) Start a new commenting session by clicking in the document at approximately wherever the new comment will start. Alternatively, if a comment has already been started, double click in the existing comment's typed text. Now the Properties toolbar will contain alternative options for changing text formatting." with the rest (if any) of that sentence depending on whether it included in HOW_defformat.pdf or in the PDF-XChange Viewer v2.5x Manual.

"Some reminders: To cancel an empty (barely begun) comment, use the Escape key. To finish a comment, click outside of its area. To change or reformat a previously finished comment, double click in the approximate middle of its text (so that its boundary displays). To delete a previously finished comment, click in the approximate middle of its text (so that its boundary displays) and use the Delete key."

I call those thoughts "reminders" on the assumption that they are noted elsewhere in the Help Manual.

Some more nits (that I may have mentioned, weeks or months ago, elsewhere on Tracker's support site): When in Windows Explorer, right clicking on the Help file and selecting Properties, PDF Information, gives some bad information:
It is no longer true that the Help document is version 2.0; it is now 2.5.x. And perhaps other information on that tab, such as the Spec version 1.4, also is wrong. Finally, that the document is not linearized would be much more interesting information if the Help document mentioned what "linearized" means. I searched for "linearized" and came up with no hits.

These are just suggestions; no need for you to reply (unless there still is a rule about that --- but if so, it ain't my rule!).

In any case, thanks for the help. You definitely got me going on Comments.

Roger Folsom

[John - Tracker Supp]

your points are noted.