Suggestions

[netto]

First, I would like to state that after going through a lot of readers trying to find one that would present nice and easy to use notation tools and fast and steady page scroll control, PDF XChange was, by far, the best one I found. I use a lenovo s10-3s netbook with touch screen and my main focus is to study texts and make notations on a natural manner. Adobe Acrobat has a difficult to control scroll inertia; Foxit becomes slow and clumsy when one has a lot of notations on a page; PDF annotator is a fun tool to use, being able of image based text highlight (which is nice), but is too slow to scroll. When one has to go back and forth through a lot of pages making notations, I found that PDF XChange presents the best result.

But it has one serious flaw. Sometimes, part of my pages will just vanish; part of the text won't display. In those occasions, I have to reload the document. I would suggest, if that is a difficult problem to solve, to allow for an esy reaching reload button. That would solve it, without further dealing with a possible bug. One other nice thing would be to allow to load the full document, as in adobe acrobat. It could be optional, depending on user choice according to available memory. Acrobat is just very fast in terms of scrolling because of that. Yet, PDF XChange has a better scroll response, IMHO.

A further suggestion would be for a tool able to going back and forth through the last views (like the arrow tool), but considering only significant (user's definable) scroll distances. Sometimes, I consult the last view, scroll a little back and forth, want to go back to the previous view, but have to go through a lot of states, before reaching it. A temporary bookmark would serve the purpose. Perhaps, there is already something like that and I'm just not aware of it.

The last suggestion is something that would make a reader unbeatable, in my point of view. It would be very nice to have a tool enabling extraction of highlighted parts of the document (at least for those documents which allows it) and its placement on a new document. It would serve as substitution for a notebook. Even with notated text helping to find one's way through the document, going through 1000 pages searching for isolated info may be a tedious task (mainly when no particular word allows for an easy automatic search). 150 pages, for instance, is much more manageable. Being able to subtract only the relevant information would be very nice.

Thanks for the attention.

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi netto,

thanks for the comments and kind words. I would suggest that before we go any further into this discussion that we wait to see exactly what V3 of the Viewer brings. There will be many enhancements and improvements in rendering, including 'Fast View" where rendering can begin before a multipage online file has fully downloaded.

If, after V3 is released you are still seeing issues where you need to reload the document please send us a report by using Help --> Report a Problem and send us the file in question and we will investigate.

For now however I suggest we wait for V3.

hth