w.schoech
July 3rd, 2008, 02:59 AM
Hello there,
I think that Foxit Reader is a pretty cool piece of software. Nevertheless, I have some small suggestions that would make Foxit Reader even better:
- Please implement a "reload PDF" function, suggested hotkey F5. This would be oh-so-great for all those PDFTeX users out there. Alternatively: When Foxit Reader is requested to open a file which is already open, reload it instead of simply switching to the correct tab.
- When saving a PDF under a different name ("save as"), Foxit Reader jumps to the top of the document. This is an annoying behaviour, one might want to continue reading even after saving a file at a different place...
- When loading a document with many bookmarks, Foxit Reader scrolls to the end of the bookmark list. This is also annoying: people usually want to explore documents from top to bottom, not vice versa.
- When switching the page view mode from "single page" to "continuous", Foxit Reader scrolls to the top of the current page. Not serious, but also annoying.
- Closing a document with Ctrl+W should also work, if the bookmark list is in focus
- Pressing Ctrl+W with no documents open should close the reader completely (just like acrobat or firefox behaviour)
Some bug reports, too:
- Many of the menus are not translated (I am using German as the language of choice), e.g., almost everything below the second separator in the "Tools" menu or in the General Preferences dialog.
- When opening a PDF file with many tabs already open, sometimes the newly opened PDF is not displayed at all although a new tab is created correctly. Switching back and forth between the Tabs or clicking on the zoom buttons sometimes helps. This might have to do something with overall System Memory usage. Try opening lots of large PDF files (e.g., all 16 parts of the DICOM standard specification ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/2008/ ;-)) with 20 other programs running in the background to reproduce this error.
- It "sometimes" happens, that all toolbars are stacked upon each other and have to be rearranged manually to form one horizontal row again. Unfortunately I don't know how to reproduce this bug.
Just my couple of cents, best regards,
W. Schoech
I think that Foxit Reader is a pretty cool piece of software. Nevertheless, I have some small suggestions that would make Foxit Reader even better:
- Please implement a "reload PDF" function, suggested hotkey F5. This would be oh-so-great for all those PDFTeX users out there. Alternatively: When Foxit Reader is requested to open a file which is already open, reload it instead of simply switching to the correct tab.
- When saving a PDF under a different name ("save as"), Foxit Reader jumps to the top of the document. This is an annoying behaviour, one might want to continue reading even after saving a file at a different place...
- When loading a document with many bookmarks, Foxit Reader scrolls to the end of the bookmark list. This is also annoying: people usually want to explore documents from top to bottom, not vice versa.
- When switching the page view mode from "single page" to "continuous", Foxit Reader scrolls to the top of the current page. Not serious, but also annoying.
- Closing a document with Ctrl+W should also work, if the bookmark list is in focus
- Pressing Ctrl+W with no documents open should close the reader completely (just like acrobat or firefox behaviour)
Some bug reports, too:
- Many of the menus are not translated (I am using German as the language of choice), e.g., almost everything below the second separator in the "Tools" menu or in the General Preferences dialog.
- When opening a PDF file with many tabs already open, sometimes the newly opened PDF is not displayed at all although a new tab is created correctly. Switching back and forth between the Tabs or clicking on the zoom buttons sometimes helps. This might have to do something with overall System Memory usage. Try opening lots of large PDF files (e.g., all 16 parts of the DICOM standard specification ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/2008/ ;-)) with 20 other programs running in the background to reproduce this error.
- It "sometimes" happens, that all toolbars are stacked upon each other and have to be rearranged manually to form one horizontal row again. Unfortunately I don't know how to reproduce this bug.
Just my couple of cents, best regards,
W. Schoech