Focus after deleting pages

[eva]

Hello,

I often delete a lot of pages that I do not need. I select the first unwanted page in page view (eg page 5) and scroll through the document until I find the next page that I want to keep (eg page 25). After selecting the last page I want to delete (with shift-click, eg page 24) and deleting the pages the focus is at the new page 25 (instead of the old page 25 = new page 5) if I don't scroll up again before deletion.

Not a big issue - but an annoyance never the less.
By the way - I love your product!

eva

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

There are different ways of working that will solve your problem. Expand the thumbnails tab to half the screen and zoom in the thumbnails big enough to see what is on them. You can marquee select pages for deletion with the mouse. You can deselect individual pages with Control Click.

You can return to your previous view after deleting pages anyway with Alter Left.

Look a bit closer — you will find no end of features that will make your work easier. Check out the customisation options — they are very powerful.

Take a look at this short Video Tutorial PDF-XChange - Deleting Pages

[eva]

Hello,

no serious problem - I can work with it. But I doubt that this behaviour is intended.
Expanding the thumbnail view doesn't help - the focus jumps nevertheless - and it doesn't really make sense to zoom the thumbnails to full size to read the text.

Alt-left does help, at least sometimes - thank you.

eva

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Marquee select, which is what I suggested using, does not change the focus from the selected thumbnail.

I didn't say anything about expanding the thumbnails to full size.

[eva]

I think, we speak about different things .
Try this:
- in the panel for Pages Thumbnails select pages 1-5
- in the main panel scroll down to page 6
- press del
-> the pages are deleted and in the main panel you see page 11 of the original document = new page 6
I would expect to see page 6 of the original document, which is the new page 1.

If you don't do anything else you can jump back with Alt-Left, but not, if you made some comments before deleting the pages.

I didn't say anything about expanding the thumbnails to full size.

No, but I have to read the text or at least parts of the text and that's quite difficult in a smaller view .

An explanation, why I do it this way:
I have documents with lots of pages, from which I only need a few. To know which to keep I have to read them (at least superficially). In the same time I make some highlighting. If I detect a page which I don't need, I select it in the left panel. I continue reading until I find the next interesting text. Now I mark the previous page with Shift-Click and delete all selected pages. For me that's by far the fastest method to shrink my documents to a readable length and mark all useful information.

eva

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

What I am saying is that you can (nearly always) do what you want already — just look for new ways of getting there.