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MattyN
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Create (Combine)

Post by MattyN »

Hey gang,

Massive fan (and happily-paying customer) of PDF-XChange Editor. Would be lost without it. Also appreciate this forum which has been a help over the last few years.

This isn't a complaint or a glitch... More of a feature request - do you take those?

I admit, this is really finicky and pedantic of me, but basically, I'm compiling PDFs all the live long day, and make frequent use of the 'Combine files into a single PDF' feature, which is ace. Mostly (for my pattern of use).

The feature request I'm suggesting is: you're using the combine into single PDF feature, you've added files and folders as required, then when you're at the stage of arranging the order of files being combined into a single PDF, can we perhaps get drag'n'drop (and/or cut/paste keyboard shortcut) functionality to arrange the order, instead of having to make use of those rather limited buttons? Seems to me it would be significantly easier if the files could be dragged into position with the mouse.

When it's only a few files or not many pages, I tend to just bypass the combine function and highlight and drag the pages into place using the thumbnail pane between the documents which are open in tabs, without using the combine feature at all. But sometimes I'll have tens of files to combine which aren't in any kind of alphanumeric order, and occasionally this can mean a hilarious amount of clicking "up" to, for example, get item 25 in place from position 67 and what-have-you. A drag-and-drop here would be superb; mouse highlighting seems less useful to me (but could still be preserved with CTRL or shift + click, right?).

Anyhow that's my (rather long-winded) pitch. Thanks for the great product. :D

- Matt
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Re: Create (Combine)

Post by Stefan - PDF-XChange »

Hello Matt,

Many thanks for your kind words!
Glad you like our products, and we most certainly do take suggestions for further improvements!

I've just tested - and when using PDF Tools - you can drag and drop files to rearrange them, but it seems like this is not possible in the Editor.
I will check now with our UI designers to see if that is on purpose, and if not - we will see to add this Feature Request.

Regards,
Stefan
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Re: Create (Combine)

Post by bqxmprij »

sometimes I'll have tens of files to combine which aren't in any kind of alphanumeric order, and occasionally this can mean a hilarious amount of clicking "up" to, for example, get item 25 in place from position 67 and what-have-you.
Hope this helps. In this example, highlight files 25-66 (select file 25, hold shift, and then the down arrow key, on the key board not the GUI, until files 25-66 are highlighted), select the down arrow from the GUI once. That will move files 25-66 down as a group, making file 67 now in position 25.
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Stefan - PDF-XChange
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Re: Create (Combine)

Post by Stefan - PDF-XChange »

Thanks for the suggestion bqxmprij,

And the ability to be able to drag and drop files to reorder them in the lists in the Editor will be added in a future build:
#5105: Editor 336 FR: Ability to reorder documents in a list with the mouse.

Regards,
Stefan