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PDF-XChange Editor: Making Annotations in Fullscreen Mode

• by Kelvin Kathia
• April 29, 2021 April 29, 2021

PDF-XChange Editor like most readers includes a full screen mod e that offers a distraction-free reading experience. The mode can be activated easily using the F11 keyboard shortcut or the button next to the window control buttons (minimize).

You may however have noticed that once you activate the full screen mode it’s impossible to do any kind of annotations let alone select text. There are no tools in this mode, only the mouse pointer. Furthermore, the context menu doesn’t appear when you right-click instead it moves the document to the previous page while a left-click takes it to the next page.

The first time I encountered this behaviour I was quite irritated as I would imagine most people would. It effectively meant I couldn’t select or highlight text, make notes or do other annotations which forced me to switch back to the window mode.

Later on I decided to check the Preferences and that’s where I encountered something rather surprising: the full screen mode defaults to a Presentation Mode (à la PowerPoint). It now made all sense why the mode was behaving as it was.

Fortunately, we can disable the mode and allow annotations and other tools besides the mouse pointer.

How to Disable Presentation Mode

• Go to the Preferences by pressing CTRL+K .

• Under the Page Navigation section remove the checkmark from the Presentation Mode option.

Selecting Text and Making Annotations in Full Screen Mode

After disabling the presentation mode you’ll notice now that the full screen mode defaults to using the hand tool . Common sense may prompt you to switch to the window mode to select a different tool (e.g select text tool) however this won’t work.

Whatever tool you’ve selected in the window mode will always be overridden to the hand tool the moment you switch to the full screen mode. Fortunately, the context menu works in the mode and from it you can select some common tools like the Snapshot Tool, Select Text and Zoom tools.

The annotations one can do in this mode are only limited to text content. As such, you’ll first need to first switch to the Select text tool and then select the content you want to manipulate. When you right-click on the selected text you’ll find some annotation tools including:

• Highlight Text
• Underline Text
• Strikeout Text
• Replace Text
• Insert Text
• Add Bookmark
• Add Sticky Note

These few annotations should suffice for most people, however, if you need more options like Text Boxes/Call Outs, Stamps and Drawing tools then there’s no other way around it – you’ll just have to exit the full screen mode to get access to them.

Well there is a way. Try exploring the commands under customize toolbar option.

I can see the commands, but I’m not sure how to access them in fullscreen mode. There are no toolbars in that mode in my current version.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion, which works great by the way. However, I also like to annotate my slide during presentation, and since I’ve been using this application to mark my students coursework, I already set a custom shortcut for the pencil tool. Lo and behold, after turning off the presentation mode and try the shortcut, I was able to use pencil tool to annotate the presentation. Hope this helps to whoever needs it.

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These options determine the settings associated with the PDF-XChange Editor viewing window :

• Click New Document Window to open a duplicate of the active document in a new window.

• Click Reset Main Panes Layout to revert the layout of the main panes to their default setting.

• Click Reset Document Panes Layout to revert the layout of the document panes to their default setting.

• Click Active Document Panes to New Horizontal Tab Group to reposition all active documents in a horizontal manner. At least two documents must be active for this feature to function.

• Click Active Document to New Vertical Tab Group to reposition all active documents in a vertical manner. At least two documents must be active for this feature to function.

• Click All Documents to One Tab Group to revert either of the two processes outlined immediately above. One document will be displayed at a time and they will share a tab group in the main window.

• Click Split to duplicate the active document and reproduce it in either a horizontal or vertical manner.

• Click Remove Split to reverse the split process.

• Click Close All to close all active documents.

• Click Reopen Recently Closed Document (or press Ctrl+Shift+W) to reopen recently closed documents.

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Post by MedBooster » Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:31 am

rakunavi wrote: ↑ Mon Jun 05, 2023 7:35 am Hello MedBooster, thank you for your comment. I too prefer to hide the Windows taskbar. Also, hiding the toolbar with the F8 key is certainly useful in terms of extending the display area, but for the reason stated in (2-B) above ( viewtopic.php?p=155394#p155394 ), it is ideal to be able to run presentation mode on multiple monitors. For example, when the toolbar is hidden by the F8 key, if you try to change the display area of the page by dragging an appropriate part of the document, and you happen to touch a comment that exists in that area, the comment position will be moved unintentionally. This is true for both mouse and touch operation. However, touch operation is more difficult to use because, like the mouse, it is not possible to determine in advance whether or not there is a comment by the type of mouse pointer, and thus it is not possible to avoid selecting a comment. With mouse operation, it is possible to drag with the palm tool to avoid commented areas, because the type of mouse pointer can tell what is in the area to be manipulated. However, using the palm tool while worrying about the structure of the document so as not to accidentally move a comment can be distracting when you simply want to read the text. If you set the Hand Tool to Exclusive mode, you can avoid unintentional selection and movement of comments even if you use the Hand Tool over them, but now you cannot follow the links as they are. No touching anywhere on the screen can accidentally select a comment. Gestures can be used to zoom in on a page, change the display range, and move the page forward. Links must function properly. The presentation mode is wonderful in that it can satisfy all three of these requirements at the same time without any special operations. I hope that these three features will be maintained and further support for multiple monitors will be added. Currently, the workaround is to install and use a portable version of PDF-XCE, as Dimitar mentioned above. As mentioned in the following topic, it is possible to use it similar to the New Window button by devising the arguments. viewtopic.php?p=164237#p164237 Best regards, rakunavi

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I have downloaded and installed  PDF-XChange Editor , and I am having difficulty navigating the new interface/understanding the new features.

I am used to the Classic UI interface in V6 of PDF-XChange Editor . The layout/features appear to be different in newer releases , even in the Classic UI,  and I would like to know what has changed and where settings and layout options etc are located.

How do I customize the Ribbon UI in PDF-XChange Editor ?

What's new?

A host of new features and functionality has been introduced since  V7 of PDF-XChange Editor . These include:

• The dynamic Ribbon UI.
• New editing features/options, including Autosave/Autorecovery, expanded OCR and recompression modes, the Word Count feature and alignment options for content items.
• MRC (mixed raster content) support.
• Expanded Snapshot and Select Text Tools.
• 'Selection' options that enable the editing of selected content, such as creating new documents or stamps, transforming the current selection and/or zooming directly to the selected content.
• New options for creating/editing weblinks.
• New modes for the Edit Content tool: edit either All content, or only Images/Text/Shapes.
• Updated macro system for Bates numbering and Headers and Footers.
• Convert selected text to Microsoft Word Document, Powerpoint Presentation or Microsoft Excel Workbook.
• Multiple new editing options for portfolio files.
• Support of TWAIN 32-bit scanners in 64-bit environments and vice-versa.
• Two new form options.
• Numerous further improvements, tweaks and bug fixes. A comprehensive list is available here.

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Classic UI changes

PDF-XChange Editor was completely renovated for the V7 build, and streamlined in order to optimize workflow efficiency. The new layout - in both the Classic V6 UI and Ribbon UI mode - may take a little while to grasp, but we are absolutely confident that our users will be satisfied with the new setup, and far prefer it to V6, once they understand how to use it and get to grips with what has changed. First of all, let's take a look at the default V6 UI in comparison to the default V7 UI in Classic mode:

The majority of settings and the layout has remained the same. This is also true for most of the commands and functions in the submenus of the Menu Toolbar (File, Edit, View, Document etc). However, there are some important differences to note:

• There is no longer an Object submenu in the Menu Toolbar. The options that were in this submenu ( 'Transform Selection' and 'Duplicate Annotations' ) have been moved to the Edit submenu.
• The Advanced submenu has been renamed Bookmarks - but all available options in the submenu remain the same.
• The View submenu contains a new pane in the Other Panes entry. The new pane is called the Document Recovery pane, and is used in conjunction with the new Autosave feature.
• The options to Add Barcode and Add Image have been moved from the Document submenu to the Add options in the UI. The Add options are located beneath the Tools tab from the image above:

• The options to Add Barcode, Add Image and Add Text are also available in the Tools submenu under Content Editing Tools -> Add.
• The Edit Content Tool, which the icon immediately above the Add options icon can be used to access, now features modes the enable the selection of specific content. The options are All content, Text content, Image content or Shape content.
• There is a new option in the Help submenu that can be used to check for updates to the software.
• The blue Undo/Redo arrows, which were located in the main body of the user interface in V6 (next to the Hand Tool ) are now located in the upper-left corner of the window.
• The option to Fit Visible has been added to the zoom section of the main toolbar.
• The Edit Comments tool has been renamed Select Comments and is located in the options of the Standard button: 

Modern Ribbon UI

Note that In the Ribbon UI , the Home tab will always be the first tab you see upon starting the Editor, currently there is no way to change this.

Use the menu detailed in the image below to switch between the Classic UI and the Ribbon UI:

The Ribbon UI appears as below:

A Ribbon UI  is a graphical control element in the form of a set of toolbars placed on multiple tabs. The  Ribbon UI  format started to gain ground in 2007, when the Microsoft Office products began to utilize it, and since then has become very popular worldwide. The  Ribbon UI  format uses graphical buttons to represent commands, grouped by functionality, that would otherwise be listed in submenus - which was the structure of PDF-XChange Editor in V6. PDF XChange decided to implement the option of utilizing a  Ribbon UI  for PDF-XChange Editor in our V7 release. This involved considerable restructuring of the software and its associated functionality.

Classic "menu" tool locations

The 'File' option is available in both the Classic and Ribbon UI:

The settings available in the File ribbon tab are almost identical to those in the File submenu of the Classic UI, but please note:

• 'Save Copy As', 'Copy Full File Name' and 'Open Containing Folder' are not yet available in the Ribbon UI, but will be added later.
• 'Send by Email' is not given in the list of available options in the Ribbon UI because it is available in the upper toolbar (highlighted in the image above).
• The 'Add a Place' option is used to add specific places when working in conjunction with Dropbox, Google Drive , SharePoint and local directories. This feature has been improved in comparison to V6.

There is no Edit ribbon tab in the Ribbon UI, because the contents of this submenu have been added to different ribbon tabs, in accordance with their functionality. The Edit submenu appears as below in V6:

This submenu has been broken down as follows in the Ribbon UI:

• Undo/Redo are available in the icons at the upper-left of the main window. These icons are available regardless of the ribbon tab selected.
• Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Deselect are available in the right-click context menu or the Selection button in the Home tab when document content is selected.
• The Find and Search functions are available in the upper-right section of the main window. These icons are available regardless of the ribbon tab selected.
• Properties is in the View ribbon tab, in the Panes submenu (listed as Properties Pane ).
• Export/Import/Reset Settings and Preferences are available in the File ribbon tab.

The 'View' option is available in both the Classic and Ribbon UI:

The settings available in the View ribbon tab are almost identical to those in the View submenu of the Classic UI, but please note:

• The 'Toolbars' option is located in the UI Options dropdown menu, which is within the upper of the two highlights in the image above.
• Bookmarks, Thumnails and Other Panes (including the new Recovery Pane ) are located in the Panes submenu, which is within the lower of the two highlights in the image above.
• The Page Layout, Zoom,   Show and Portfolio options are all available in the View ribbon tab - except for the JavaScript Console, which is located in the Form ribbon tab.
• It is not yet possible to enable/disable Snapping from the Ribbon UI, or to browse to the Previous/Next Document - these options will be added later.
• Full Screen Mode is available in the upper-right section of the main window - next to the UI Options dropdown menu, which is highlighted in the image above.

The Document submenu has been renamed as the Organize ribbon tab in V7. Almost all of the options in the Document submenu are available in the Organize ribbon tab, with the following exceptions:

• The Page Transitions option in the More for Pages submenu is located in the View ribbon tab.
• The Digital Signature and Redaction options are located in the Protect ribbon tab. 
• The Spell Check feature is located the in Review ribbon tab.
• The Launch options are available in the lower-right corner of the main window, and can be customized in the Launch Applications preferences section (available in the File ribbon tab).

All options available in the Form submenu of the classic UI are available in the Form ribbon tab. N.b. there is no 'Edit Form' button, as the options that this button enabled in V6 are present when the Form ribbon tab is enabled.

There is no 'Object' ribbon tab in V7. The commands that were present in this submenu in V6 are now located in the Home ribbon tab, within the Selection menu when content is selected.

There is no 'Tools' ribbon tab in V7. The contents of the Tools submenu in V6 are available at the following locations in V7:

• The Hand Tool and Select Text Tool are available on the left side of many of the ribbon tabs, as is Other Tools submenu, which includes the Snapshot Tool.
• The Zoom Tools are available in the View  ribbon tab.
• The Edit Content and Add Text Tools are available in the Home ribbon tab.
• The Comment and Markup Tools are available in the Comment ribbon tab. N.b. The Edit Comments Tool is called Select Comments in V7, and the Stamps Palette is located in the Stamp Tool dropdown menu.
• The  Link Creation Tool  is available in the  Home  ribbon tab.
• The Measurement Tools are available in the  Comment ribbon tab. Calibrate Measurement is in the Scale dropdown menu of  Format ribbon tab. The Format ribbon tab is enabled when the Measurement Tools (or any other tools)   are selected:

The Format ribbon tab is used to customize tools and enable options such as Keep Selected, Exclusive Mode and the active Blend Mode - in the same manner as the Properties Toolbar  was used in V6 of PDF-XChange Editor .

The Advanced submenu was renamed as the  Bookmarks ribbon tab in V7. The available commands are identical to those that were available in V6.

The options in the SharePoint submenu in V6 have been moved to the File ribbon tab in V7, and are available when the Share option is selected.

There is no Windows ribbon tab in V7. The contents of the Windows  submenu in  V6  were broken down as follows in  V7:

• New Document Window, Active Document/All Document options and Close All are available in the Document Tabs dropdown menu of the View ribbon tab.
• Reset Main Pane and Reset Document Panes and not available in the Ribbon UI by default, but they can be added using a custom ribbon tab/toolbar as desired. See below for further information on the creation of custom ribbon tabs and toolbars.
• Split/Remove Split are available in the View ribbon tab. Click the Split dropdown menu to enable/disable a split view of the active document.
• Close All is available in the File ribbon tab.
• Reopen Recently Closed Document is available in the Document Tabs dropdown menu of the View ribbon tab.

All options that were available in the Help submenu of V6 are available in the Help ribbon tab, along with some additional commands.

How to Customize the Ribbon UI

1. Click the Help ribbon tab, then click Customize Toolbars. The Customize Toolbars dialog box will open.

2. Click the New dropdown menu and select New Ribbon Tab:

The New Ribbon Tab dialog box will open.

3. Enter a title for the new ribbon tab (this example will use the title  'New Ribbon Tab' ) then click OK.

The new ribbon tab will appear in the list of Main Tabs and in the Ribbon UI:

The next step is to add commands to the new ribbon tab:

4. Click the  Commands tab in the  Customize Toolbars  dialog box, then click and drag commands from the list of commands into the new ribbon tab.

Alternatively, it is possible to create new toolbars and add commands to them:

1. Follow steps one and two above, and select New Toolbar instead of New Ribbon Tab at the last stage of step two.

The New Toolbar dialog box will open.

2. Enter a name for the new toolbar (this example will use the name 'New Toolbar' ) and click OK.

The new toolbar will appear in the upper-left section of the main window:

3. Click the Commands tab in the Customize Toolbars dialog box, then click and drag the desired commands from the list of commands into the new toolbar:

Additionally, please note that it is possible to click and drag commands from the list of commands to any existing toolbar, and many other locations in the UI, including empty ribbon tabs.

4. Click the desired ribbon tab for the new toolbar, then click and drag it to the desired location in the ribbon tab. If an empty ribbon tab is being used then it is necessary to drag the new toolbar to the far left side. The following icon will de displayed when the location is correct:

The new toolbar will then be available in the ribbon tab, and will feature the commands added at step three:

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Solutions for presenting PDF slides with presenter notes on second display [closed]

I made a presentation using the latex beamer class with notes. Now I have a problem displaying notes only on my display while presenting the slides to the audience using a projector. Beamer notes produce very wide pdf pages, each half page should be presented on its own display. A single page looks somewhat like this:

Currently I use the smaller display of my notebook for notes and the larger display for the presentation in my test setting. The second screen is extending the desktop. The screen order doesn't really matter but both displays have a different resolution. I don't know what the actual resolution of the screen/projector will be for when presenting.

Here are some applications I've tried. I the got fullscreen/window issues as described above if not otherwise explained.

• Adobe reader X
• Foxit reader
• PDF-XChange Viewer
• single display fullscreen, task bar still visible
• single display fullscreen
• window mode: large resolution not supported by graphic card (only about 3/4 of both monitors)
• most promising, if I extract all notes into text files
• plain text notes, too small, would need zoom tool
• no keyboard shortcuts, must click button
• similiar to above one, notes in text files (?) couldn't compile on windows yet.
• PDF presenter
• somewhat promising; displays fullscreen on one screen while other screen is in window mode
• notes are more a whiteboard feature, can't be hidden to audience
• notes cant be saved

I also tried the default Ubuntu pdf viewer using virtual box. Unfortunately virtual full screen also shows only a single display.

Are there any solutions to display pdf slides in fullscreen on one display and notes about the current slide on another display?

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• 6 Just a remark: If you used PowerPoint, then it already has this mode, called Presenter view . This is simpler than your current complex solution. –  harrymc Sep 27, 2011 at 13:12
• 1 How many features are required for making a presentation ? You might be underestimating PowerPoint. –  harrymc Sep 27, 2011 at 14:45
• 1 @harrymc Not that many features on second though, mainly it's having a progress-bar like overview of the presentation, basically like a table of contents on (almost) every slide that highlights the current section. Also source code syntax colouring (rtf copy&paste would work, but not when linking files I edit externally). Not really required, but portability with pdf is better than ppt.I also just like to type more and click less. –  kapex Sep 27, 2011 at 15:11
• 2 You might look at the free IguanaTex or the commercial TexPoint . –  harrymc Sep 27, 2011 at 15:51
• 5 You can use github.com/pdfpc/pdfpc as pdfpc presenation.pdf -n right to achieve what you described. –  nijoakim Apr 29, 2016 at 13:13

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You can achieve this under Linux with a combination of xrandr and impressive.py .

First use xrandr to set the screens' resolutions, e.g.:

where LVDS would be your laptop's screen and CRT1 the projector. You can verify your device identifiers and available resolutions by just running xrandr .

Once you have the screens set up, run impressive.py with the -g flag signalling the complete workspace size, e.g.:

Source: Phillip Merensky's blog .

Merensky's blog also points to a more complex example of xrandr usage for multiple-projector presentations .

I found a nice little tool called VirtualScreenMaximizer , which does exactly that. Works like a charm!

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