Multi Monitor/Instances capabilities?  SOLVED

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Elastik
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Multi Monitor/Instances capabilities?

Post by Elastik »

Hi to all,

I like to see two documents on separate monitors? Is that possible in PDF-Xch?

Any thoughts would be welcome.
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rakunavi
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Re: Multi Monitor/Instances capabilities?  SOLVED

Post by rakunavi »

Hi Elastik,

Of course it is possible. Please open "Preferences" under File menu and press the "Setup..." button in the "General" category to open the "Manage Tabs and Windows" dialog. Then activate the following two settings in the dialog.

  • Open each document in a new window
  • Hide tab bar when only a single document is opened

    https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe9/index.html?general_ed.html
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rakunavi
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Re: Multi Monitor/Instances capabilities?

Post by Stefan - PDF-XChange »

Hello rakunavi,

Many thanks for the help! That would be useful, but will also open each file in a separate tab, and when there are more than 2 files - you end up with many windows.

@Elastik - you should be able to also grab the tab of any file and drag it outside of the current Editor window. This will open it in a new window that you can then move to your second monitor. You can have e.g. 10 files opened initially, and move only one to the second screen that way, leaving the other 9 still opened as tabs in the main Editor window that you started with.

Kind regards,
Stefan