Color setting of the link borders in link edit mode SOLVED

[rakunavi]

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The issue reported below has been resolved in Ver 9.5 build 365.
I appreciate all the hard work and efforts of the support and development team.
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Hello all,

"Selection" color of the Customize UI setting (Figure 1), as the word implies, affects colors related to "Selection" such as when selecting thumbnails in the Thumbnails pane or selecting items in various dialogs. When the link edit mode is activated by pressing the "Add/Edit Link" button on the "Home" tab, the link borders (*1) will also be displayed in the color specified by the "Selection" color.

• (*1) The link borders in this topic refers to what is temporarily displayed in link edit mode. In other words, the link border width is set to 0 pt, and nothing is displayed on the screen when link edit mode is disabled.

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As long as the default UI color theme is applied, the color of the thumbnail selected in the Thumbnails pane and the color of the link border are both very easy to see because they both have a white background. The Figure 2 shows four links visible in link edit mode and six pages selected in the Thumbnails pane.

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However, the closer the background is to black, such as a black theme, the more difficult it becomes to achieve both visibility in the Thumbnails pane and in the link borders (Figure 3). This is because in the default theme color, both the background of the Thumbnails pane and the document background are white in common, whereas in the black theme, the document background color remains white and only the background of the Thumbnails pane changes to a dark color.

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If the selection color is changed to a bright color such as yellow to prioritize visibility in the Thumbnails pane (*2), the link borders will be difficult to see (Figure 4). In the most extreme case, if the selection color is set to white, the link border will be white on white background and completely invisible. So, it would be appreciated if the color of the link borders in link edit mode could be set independently from the "Selection" color.

• (*2) The application must be restarted for the selection color change to take effect.

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As a side note, in the current version, there is a limitation (possibly a bug) that when the Selection color setting is changed, only the selection color of the Thumbnails pane, etc. is immediately reflected, and the link borders color is reflected after the application is restarted. If you take advantage of this limitation, it is possible to temporarily set the selection color of the Thumbnails pane and the color of the link borders separately (Figure 5). Of course, this is an almost meaningless workaround, since the settings must be changed each time the application is started and each time it is closed.

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Thank you for taking the time to read this message.

Best regards,
rakunavi

- PDF-XChange Editor Plus Version:9.4 build 363.0
- OS Version: Windows 10 Home/Pro 21H2 Build 19044.1889
- PC Model: Lenovo IdeaPad C340-15IWL / HP ProDesk 600G1

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi Rakunavi,

Thanks for the post and report. I have discussed this in the past with the development team. If I understand both you and them correctly it is related to the blending of the colours. I will bring this to him and check if this is indeed the cause of the colours being hared to see.

I believe this is something that he is aware of but has been considered low priority. Lets see what comes from the discussion, I'll post here.

[rakunavi]

Hi Paul, thank you for your comment.

I am relieved to hear that you are already aware of the issue. It is not surprising that the priority is low, since no problems would occur if the default theme were used.

I hope that one day it will be improved.

Best regards,
rakunavi

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

Hi rakunavi.

All reported issues will be fixed in the next build. Thanks for the help.

Cheers.

[Jensen Head]

All reported issues will be fixed in the next build. Thanks for the help.

The issue reported below has been resolved in Ver 9.5 build 365.

I'm currently using PDF-XChange Editor 10.5.2, build 395, and when using the app's dark theme, I still have trouble distinguishing between selected and unselected pages:
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This could be solved by separately setting the fill color of the selected pages in the Customize UI settings tab, or by adding a thin contrasting border to the marked page thumbs.

Upd. in dark theme the frame of the current page in the Thumbnails pane is almost invisible:
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PDF-XChange Editor 10.6.0, build 396

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Jensen Head,

Can you please update to 396 first as this is the current latest?
And thanks for sharing your solution with adjusting the colours.

Kind regards,
Stefan