Fit-page zooming in foxit - Is it just me or....

[tomjmul]

...am I missing something incredibly trivial.

When I go to the full page zoom, in addition to the acres of space to the sides of the page, which indeed I would expect when viewing a portrait document, there is a huge amount to the top and bottom also - which I definitely would not!

The way things are now, in this zoom-level the pdf pages are way too small to read comfortably.

The exact same behaviour also exhibits in full screen mode! Only difference being the gaps are now black instead of grey.

OK, so I zoom in until the page fills the screen top to bottom and now I can read comfortably - A little inconvenient perhaps, but I could live with that. HOWEVER - even the slightest zoom outside of what foxit thinks(!) is the fit-page level, means that per-page scrolling no longer works. It takes 4 scroll-wheel clicks to get to half the first page another huge grey gap and then half the second.

Well, if it really isn't me and this is just foxit as it presents itself, then that is an absolutely ludicrous situation, and it is, with some reluctance, back to the bloat (and sloth) of Adobe.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I can't reproduce this problem, though scrolling the page is painfully slow in Adobe Reader — it takes 11 scrolls of the wheel to get to the next page — but in Foxit Reader it takes only 3. The gap between pages is about 5 pixels in both normal view and fullscreen.

Fullscreen mode should zoom to page width by default, and zoom in/zoom out should not need the user to hold the control key, just +- on the number pad should be the shortcut. Adobe Reader also uses Control + Numpad ± Why make life difficult for the user? Control + Scroll wheel, or left click + scroll wheel would be better.

[Humulus]

Maybe the PDF file contains pages in different sizes?
Then you get big gaps for some kind of reason.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Yes. That is the reason. If you use the single page view instead of continuous, you will find that the pages jump rather than scrolling, at least in normal view.

[eduardovfranca]

I have also the same problem as tomjmul. Even if I set "Fit Width" and "Continous Page View", Foxit displays huge amount of space on top, bottom, left and right side of each page. I need 2 scrolls to go from one page to another. Acrobat Reader displays the document perfectly, with fitted width and without space between pages.
I doesn´t happen for all documents, but the one I need, yes.

[tomjmul]

scrolling the page is painfully slow in Adobe Reader — it takes 11 scrolls of the wheel to get to the next page — but in Foxit Reader it takes only 3. The gap between pages is about 5 pixels in both normal view and fullscreen.

No it doesn't. If you have fit page selected, it takes precisely what it should to scroll to the next page - One scroll wheel click! And on top of that the page displays as it should - fitting the page as best it can to the monitor contraints, IE For the usual landscape monitors, filled top to bottom, gaps to the left and right.

Now I am no advocate of adobe reader, in fact I think it is one the biggest examples of the slegdgehammer/nut analogy I have yet to come across in software, but at least I can read and quickly scroll through my pdf files. Foxit would be perfect if I could just do that.

As an interim solution, I went to oldversions.com, downloaded v5.05 of reader. and moved all of the plugins to the optional folder. I find that it loads just as quickly as foxit and works in my browsers.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

No it doesn't.
If you had read my post carefully you would have noticed that I was referring to continuous page mode. Foxit is much better than Adobe Reader here. In single page view, they are much the same.

[tomjmul]

If you had read my post carefully you would have noticed that I was referring to continuous page mode. Foxit is much better than Adobe Reader here. In single page view, they are much the same.

I did read your post but didn't realise that it was completely irrelevent to the topic under discussion. Sorry....my mistake.

[Jessamine]

I think I know what Tomjmul means. It is caused by the different size between viewable area and actual page. Smaller viewable and larger page size result in the extra page margin to grey out. As a matter of fact, we are working to improve it now. Hope you can understand what I mean. Let me know if I have misunderstood you.