open from same folder, postpone network re-opening

[jpaul]

Hi,
A couple of questions related to document opening
1. Opening a new document from same folder as a document already open.
Can the file->open explorer window be made to default to the folder
of the most recently accessed open document; this would make opening new
documents from same location as existing document more efficient
[can use file-Open 'containing folder' to quickly access folder
of an existing document but this file explorer does not have a filter
to limit it to *.pdf, to make it easy to find file]
2. Re-opening network documents.
When I resume computer network documents seem to get re-loaded from
network (as opposed to originally being cached locally)
Opening documents takes a while and seems to occur if (with navigation bar enabled) you inadvertently pass the cursor across the documents tab,
so with several large network documents may take a minute of re-loading
before viewer is responsive to look at a document. (any threading possible?)
Is there anyway to make this re-load an (explicitly) on demand process
when I click on the associated document tab. ?

Regards, Paul

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi JPaul,

thanks for the post. I'm not sure what behaviour you are seeing but I see what I believe to be exactly what you are asking for. The Open dialogue rememberts the last folder used and opens thare witht a filter for .pdf files



Now in this case is is a network resource and we open there directly rather than cached deliberately so we are upening the correct document. If we cached it there would be potential for version mismatches, espacially on shares since others could have modified it since you. I use a share daily and rarely see delays opening files from the share. Are these files large or do they have complex graphics? Similarly network performance is important, however even with a 10MB connection (slow for a LAN) you should not see huge delays opening files unless they are large and/or complex.

How would you propose dealing with changes to a document if opening a cached version instead of the shared one?

[jpaul]

Paul,
Thanks for your comments

1. opening from same folder
I am using the viewer on windows XP, which for some reason does not give the
'files of type' file filter in the file explorer window generated from 'open from same folder'
It looks like you are running vista or 7 from the window decoration.

2. network file restore.
The technical manuals I am using with diagrams are 10Mb a piece, and on gigabyte wired
network (company) take 20-30s to load and process the annotations.
Personally have locally cached versions would be better since they are not changing.
Indeed I have copied some very frequently used pdf's on local computer.

Thanks, Paul

[jpaul]

correction : previous comment 2 was meant to say
> Personally for network files if the viewer cached them locally this
would be better for me since they are not changing.
*further thought* : i guess it has cached them (otherwise access to sections
of document would be slow) but empties the cache
following a network interruption and re-loads doc, maybe viewer
could just check that timestamps did not change ?

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello jpaul,

If those files do not change that often - then it might be much easier to simply make local copies.
Network loading is as Paul commented intended to load the file after every session interruption (being it you closing the Viewer, or the network connection dropping).

for 1) above - yes that's Windows 7.

We are revamping pretty much all of the Viewer UI for ver3, so it's possible that the Open dialogue window will be changed as well but I can't promise anything at this moment.

Best,
Stefan