rochester12
April 26th, 2008, 04:31 AM
I installed 2.3. I previously used 2.1 because of the find text problems in 2.2. Find was the first thing I checked. I immediately ran into a problem.
When I said ctrl-f, I expected a find dialog box to open. None did. After several tries, I discovered that a box in the tool bar was opening. If you are expecting a dialog box, you can easily overlook the box in the tool bar.
I saw a handle in the find box tool bar. I dragged it and got a form of dialog box. I could not resize the dialog box. I got double pointed arrows but could not resize it. The box was not a standard dialog box.
Here I ran into a problem. It looks like some genius defined the text font size in the both the tool bar find box and in the loose tool bar find dialog box in pixels. Rather than follow Windows standards, and use a standard Windows dialog box for find, this apparent genius wrote code for a non standard dialog box.
I thought everyone learned long ago that when you fix something that isn't broke, you inevitably break something.
I spend time viewing and editing photographs and use a very high pixel density monitor setting using 1600 x 1200 resolution. I can see many large photos on my screen in actual size without having to scroll. I use the standard windows appearance tools and some application program settings to scale up in size my fonts so I can read text documents and to make the displayed text print quality.
Because the non standard find dialog box with fixed pixel defined fonts bypasses the Windows functions designed to make screen displays scalable, the text in the find text box is so small I can't read it from where I sit. I have to turn on my magnifier to read the find text string I enter.
I could not find any place to set this font.
Using a standard windows dialog box for find would solve the problem.
This problem merits some priority. The same techniques I use, including font magnification, are also used by visually handicapped people to enlarge text sizes. Breaking these methods by not following Windows standards opens you up to claims that your software doesn't accommodate the handicapped and violates the California Unruh Act. Since Foxit is located in California, Foxit can't claim unfairness in having to comply with the Unruh Act.
Another problem. How can you close that dialog box using the keyboard? Escape dosen't do it. ctrl-f4 closes the document window. Doesn't some key close it?
The font size problem exists with the tabs. However, the tool tips interface for the tabs follows standards and appears with my tool tip font size setting and is easily readable.
When I said ctrl-f, I expected a find dialog box to open. None did. After several tries, I discovered that a box in the tool bar was opening. If you are expecting a dialog box, you can easily overlook the box in the tool bar.
I saw a handle in the find box tool bar. I dragged it and got a form of dialog box. I could not resize the dialog box. I got double pointed arrows but could not resize it. The box was not a standard dialog box.
Here I ran into a problem. It looks like some genius defined the text font size in the both the tool bar find box and in the loose tool bar find dialog box in pixels. Rather than follow Windows standards, and use a standard Windows dialog box for find, this apparent genius wrote code for a non standard dialog box.
I thought everyone learned long ago that when you fix something that isn't broke, you inevitably break something.
I spend time viewing and editing photographs and use a very high pixel density monitor setting using 1600 x 1200 resolution. I can see many large photos on my screen in actual size without having to scroll. I use the standard windows appearance tools and some application program settings to scale up in size my fonts so I can read text documents and to make the displayed text print quality.
Because the non standard find dialog box with fixed pixel defined fonts bypasses the Windows functions designed to make screen displays scalable, the text in the find text box is so small I can't read it from where I sit. I have to turn on my magnifier to read the find text string I enter.
I could not find any place to set this font.
Using a standard windows dialog box for find would solve the problem.
This problem merits some priority. The same techniques I use, including font magnification, are also used by visually handicapped people to enlarge text sizes. Breaking these methods by not following Windows standards opens you up to claims that your software doesn't accommodate the handicapped and violates the California Unruh Act. Since Foxit is located in California, Foxit can't claim unfairness in having to comply with the Unruh Act.
Another problem. How can you close that dialog box using the keyboard? Escape dosen't do it. ctrl-f4 closes the document window. Doesn't some key close it?
The font size problem exists with the tabs. However, the tool tips interface for the tabs follows standards and appears with my tool tip font size setting and is easily readable.