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by wmm
Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:33 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures
Replies: 26
Views: 16394

Re: Ligatures

Wonderful! Thank you so much! Now PDF-Xchange Viewer is perfect! :D
by wmm
Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:29 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures
Replies: 26
Views: 16394

Re: Ligatures

Yes, I wasn't intending to cast aspersions -- I'm in software development myself, and I understand that things have to be done in priority order and that what's important to me individually may not be what's needed by the user community at large. I was just expressing some disappointment that the fe...
by wmm
Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:03 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures
Replies: 26
Views: 16394

Re: Ligatures

Yes, it's been well over a year now since Ivan assured us that support would be "added into one of the next build." This is a really significant handicap, and a fix would be very much appreciated.
by wmm
Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:19 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures (again)
Replies: 2
Views: 897

Re: Ligatures (again)

Thanks very much -- that will be very helpful to me. As I mentioned in the original thread, the copy/paste issue is much less important, just a minor inconvenience, but not being able to search reliably is a big deal.
by wmm
Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:57 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures (again)
Replies: 2
Views: 897

Ligatures (again)

In a post in this thread , dated June 22, 2008, Ivan said, Support for ligatures will be added in an upcoming build together with improving the text editor for supporting east asian languages, etc. However, the problems I mentioned in that thread (inability to search reliably for words containing li...
by wmm
Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:22 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Minor feature request: select search text
Replies: 4
Views: 1242

Re: Minor feature request: select search text

I've done yet more experimentation, and the problem appears to be related to using the "find next" button (the binoculars with the green arrow) to start a search instead of "enter". Here's a scenario that reproduces the problem for me: 1. Start PDF-XChange Viewer and open a docum...
by wmm
Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:49 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Minor feature request: select search text
Replies: 4
Views: 1242

Re: Minor feature request: select search text

I thought I had seen it working that way earlier, but it certainly was not working that way when I made that post. Based on your input, though, I investigated further and understand what is happening now. When you first search in a session, the search string is selected (highlighted) in the search t...
by wmm
Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:17 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Minor feature request: select search text
Replies: 4
Views: 1242

Minor feature request: select search text

This is a request for a minor change that would make searching easier. If I have already searched for a string and then want to search for something else, pressing ctrl-F moves the cursor into the box with the previous search text but does not select that text, meaning that I have to manually edit i...
by wmm
Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:12 am
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures
Replies: 26
Views: 16394

Re: Ligatures

I'm glad to hear that this will be fixed sometime. I suggest that a search for a string containing regular text should find words with regular text and words with ligatures, but a search for a string containing ligatures should find only ligatures. I understand the functionality reason for wanting ...
by wmm
Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:56 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures
Replies: 26
Views: 16394

Re: Ligatures

Ivan - Tracker Software wrote:Supporting of ligatures will be added into one of the next build together with improving text editor for supporting east asian languages, etc.
That's great! Thanks so much.
by wmm
Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:03 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures
Replies: 26
Views: 16394

Re: Ligatures

Build 38 is not even announced yet — it must be very new. I just updated. Yes. I just downloaded and started using PDF-Xchange Viewer yesterday for the first time, so when you mentioned that you were using the latest version, I figured that I had it, too. Just to make sure, though, I checked for up...
by wmm
Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:04 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures
Replies: 26
Views: 16394

Re: Ligatures

Yes. I mean use the string in quotes, which uses the fi ligature from Alphabetic Presentation forms. I'm not sure exactly what you're saying here. What I did was to open the full search pane, type a double-quote followed by the five characters f-i-r-s-t followed by another double-quote, and then hi...
by wmm
Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:52 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures
Replies: 26
Views: 16394

Re: Ligatures

Thanks for the suggestion, but unless I misunderstood what you were saying it doesn't work. I assume that what you meant was that I should enclose the string in quotes. I did that; the "find" command finds nothing, and the "search" command finds only the occurrences without the &...
by wmm
Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:07 pm
Forum: PDF-XChange Viewer (End Users)
Topic: Ligatures
Replies: 26
Views: 16394

Ligatures

A ligature is a typographical entity where two or three separate characters are connected into one. The most common English example is the sequence "fi", where the top of the "f" is extended to merge with the dot of the "i". I regularly work with a large document produc...