tester2
November 18th, 2007, 10:26 PM
Hello,
Recently I discover Foxit and I'm delighted with it.
I own TabletPC and read many ebooks on it very often. So ergonomic and easy-to-use principles are very important to me - in fact that tablet computer is used in a little different way (an example lack of hardware keyboard).
I found that I miss few features for optimal using of Foxit in keyboard-less environment, so I wrote it here as a enhancement proposals:
1. Add some context actions with mouse double-clicks
(an example double clicking a pdf page with hand tool does nothing, but it would toggle fullscreen mode - it would be a very nice speed-up for interaction with pdf documents
another example: double clicking in fullscreen mode does nothing too - but it would exit fullscreen)
2. Delayed cursor hiding in fullscreen mode
(it is annoying if a mouse cursor leaved ina amiddle of screen distract from reading, so it is need to take of a wacom pen from a parking bay and move cursor to the screen edge.
as an option this can auto-hide exit fullscreen button after few second delay too. it can be redisplayed after detecting a cursor movement)
3. Shift by one displaying pages in fixing facing view mode feature
(an example many electronic magazines have double-pages graphics or advertising. but sometimes at time of exporting to pdf publishers adds page with some disclaimer, additional cover or something - if a amount of this pages are odd then all subsequent double-page graphics are not displayed beside themselves, but are split and paired with previous and following page)
4. Copy to clipboard or save to disk whole page in actual size (pixel to pixel) as image (jpg, png, tga, bmp...)
(to save only one page from pdf document now user must doing a printscreen. if a pdf have high resolution and screen have low (like 800x600) then it is impossible to make printscreen copy of a high resolution pdf, because at 100% zoom only a part of pdf page is displayed in a window - so feature like this would be very convenient)
5. Custom keyboard shortcuts definition
(many TabletPCs have a special rocker keys near the screen. many of them have some predefined functions like vk_mail_client, vk_web_prev, VK_web_next, vk_www_homepage, etc. - it would be a very nice feature if it would be possible to define and assign this VK key-codes directly inside a Foxit without using 3rd party keyboard remappers. beside this I think that an ability to defining a custom shortcuts would be a very usefullnes to all users)
6. Custom toolbar definition
(probably most of a Foxit user uses only a few from a standard set of toolbar buttons - I an example in 90% of cases have use only a fullscreen button. so adding possibility to a built a custom toolbar (by drag and drop technique) would less clutter in the Foxit window and shorten time to found a right button from many unused)
7. Option to startup in fullscreen mode
8. Detecting of screen rotation in fullscreen mode and fixing window display
(after changing from portrait mode to landscape if Foxit is in fullscreen then displayed page are truncated on bottom and left unused space at right - so it is a need to manually exit fullscreen and turn it on again
btw it is a very common problem in software that they are not aware of screen rotation of TabletPC displays)
Please comment what do you think about this ideas.
Best regards,
Jarko
Recently I discover Foxit and I'm delighted with it.
I own TabletPC and read many ebooks on it very often. So ergonomic and easy-to-use principles are very important to me - in fact that tablet computer is used in a little different way (an example lack of hardware keyboard).
I found that I miss few features for optimal using of Foxit in keyboard-less environment, so I wrote it here as a enhancement proposals:
1. Add some context actions with mouse double-clicks
(an example double clicking a pdf page with hand tool does nothing, but it would toggle fullscreen mode - it would be a very nice speed-up for interaction with pdf documents
another example: double clicking in fullscreen mode does nothing too - but it would exit fullscreen)
2. Delayed cursor hiding in fullscreen mode
(it is annoying if a mouse cursor leaved ina amiddle of screen distract from reading, so it is need to take of a wacom pen from a parking bay and move cursor to the screen edge.
as an option this can auto-hide exit fullscreen button after few second delay too. it can be redisplayed after detecting a cursor movement)
3. Shift by one displaying pages in fixing facing view mode feature
(an example many electronic magazines have double-pages graphics or advertising. but sometimes at time of exporting to pdf publishers adds page with some disclaimer, additional cover or something - if a amount of this pages are odd then all subsequent double-page graphics are not displayed beside themselves, but are split and paired with previous and following page)
4. Copy to clipboard or save to disk whole page in actual size (pixel to pixel) as image (jpg, png, tga, bmp...)
(to save only one page from pdf document now user must doing a printscreen. if a pdf have high resolution and screen have low (like 800x600) then it is impossible to make printscreen copy of a high resolution pdf, because at 100% zoom only a part of pdf page is displayed in a window - so feature like this would be very convenient)
5. Custom keyboard shortcuts definition
(many TabletPCs have a special rocker keys near the screen. many of them have some predefined functions like vk_mail_client, vk_web_prev, VK_web_next, vk_www_homepage, etc. - it would be a very nice feature if it would be possible to define and assign this VK key-codes directly inside a Foxit without using 3rd party keyboard remappers. beside this I think that an ability to defining a custom shortcuts would be a very usefullnes to all users)
6. Custom toolbar definition
(probably most of a Foxit user uses only a few from a standard set of toolbar buttons - I an example in 90% of cases have use only a fullscreen button. so adding possibility to a built a custom toolbar (by drag and drop technique) would less clutter in the Foxit window and shorten time to found a right button from many unused)
7. Option to startup in fullscreen mode
8. Detecting of screen rotation in fullscreen mode and fixing window display
(after changing from portrait mode to landscape if Foxit is in fullscreen then displayed page are truncated on bottom and left unused space at right - so it is a need to manually exit fullscreen and turn it on again
btw it is a very common problem in software that they are not aware of screen rotation of TabletPC displays)
Please comment what do you think about this ideas.
Best regards,
Jarko