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Document Properties... ................................................................................................................................................ 51
Copy Full File Name...................................................................................................................................................... 54
Open Containing Folder... ............................................................................................................................................ 54
Exit ............................................................................................................................................................................... 54
Edit ................................................................................................................................................................... 55
Undo ............................................................................................................................................................................ 55
Redo............................................................................................................................................................................. 55
Cut ............................................................................................................................................................................... 55
Copy ............................................................................................................................................................................. 55
Paste ............................................................................................................................................................................ 55
Delete .......................................................................................................................................................................... 55
Find .............................................................................................................................................................................. 56
Search .......................................................................................................................................................................... 57
Import All Settings from Data File… ............................................................................................................................. 59
Export All Settings to Data File… .................................................................................................................................. 59
Reset All Settings to Defaults... .................................................................................................................................... 60
Preferences… ............................................................................................................................................................... 61
General ......................................................................................................................................................................................62
Color Management .....................................................................................................................................................................65
Page Display ...............................................................................................................................................................................66
Rendering ...................................................................................................................................................................................68
Performance ...............................................................................................................................................................................69
Languages...................................................................................................................................................................................70
File Associations .........................................................................................................................................................................71
Registration ................................................................................................................................................................................72
Accessibility ................................................................................................................................................................................73
Measurement .............................................................................................................................................................................74
Identity .......................................................................................................................................................................................76
Security ......................................................................................................................................................................................76
JavaScript ...................................................................................................................................................................................78
Snapshot Tool .............................................................................................................................................................................79
Forms .........................................................................................................................................................................................80
Commenting ...............................................................................................................................................................................81
New Documents .........................................................................................................................................................................82
Full Screen ..................................................................................................................................................................................83
Customize UI ..............................................................................................................................................................................84
Search Providers .........................................................................................................................................................................85
View ................................................................................................................................................................. 86
Toolbars Menu ............................................................................................................................................................. 86
Status Bar..................................................................................................................................................................... 87
Navigation Tabs ........................................................................................................................................................... 87
Navigation Tab Menu ..................................................................................................................................................................87
Customize User Interface… .......................................................................................................................................... 87
Bookmarks ................................................................................................................................................................... 88
Bookmark Editor .........................................................................................................................................................................90
Bookmark Properties & Actions ..................................................................................................................................................91
Pages Thumbnails ........................................................................................................................................................ 96
Other Panes ............................................................................................................................................................... 102
Layers ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 102
Fields ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 102
Comments ................................................................................................................................................................................ 103
Attachments ............................................................................................................................................................................. 103
Actual Size.................................................................................................................................................................. 103
Fit Page ...................................................................................................................................................................... 103
Fit Width .................................................................................................................................................................... 103
Zoom To ..................................................................................................................................................................... 104
Show Grid .................................................................................................................................................................. 104
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Show Guides .............................................................................................................................................................. 104
Show Rulers ............................................................................................................................................................... 104
Snap ........................................................................................................................................................................... 104
Go To ......................................................................................................................................................................... 105
Page Layout ............................................................................................................................................................... 106
Rotate View ............................................................................................................................................................... 106
Full Screen.................................................................................................................................................................. 106
Document ...................................................................................................................................................... 107
Insert Pages ............................................................................................................................................................... 108
Insert Empty Pages .................................................................................................................................................... 109
Extract Pages.............................................................................................................................................................. 110
Delete Pages .............................................................................................................................................................. 111
Rotate Pages .............................................................................................................................................................. 112
Crop Pages ................................................................................................................................................................. 113
Signing ....................................................................................................................................................................... 115
Attach a File… ............................................................................................................................................................ 116
OCR Pages… ............................................................................................................................................................... 117
Comments ...................................................................................................................................................... 118
Flatten Comments... .................................................................................................................................................. 118
Summarize Comments... ............................................................................................................................................ 120
Show Comments ........................................................................................................................................................ 123
Import Comments… ................................................................................................................................................... 124
Export Comments to Data File... ................................................................................................................................ 125
Show Comments List .................................................................................................................................................. 125
Show Comments Styles Palette .................................................................................................................................. 127
Tools .............................................................................................................................................................. 128
Basic Tools ................................................................................................................................................................. 129
Hand Tool ................................................................................................................................................................................. 129
Snapshot Tool ........................................................................................................................................................................... 129
Select Tool ................................................................................................................................................................................ 130
Zoom Tools ................................................................................................................................................................ 130
Zoom In .................................................................................................................................................................................... 130
Zoom Out ................................................................................................................................................................................. 130
Loupe Tool ................................................................................................................................................................................ 130
Pan & Zoom Window ................................................................................................................................................................ 131
Comment & Markup Tools ......................................................................................................................................... 132
Important! Please read! ............................................................................................................................................................ 133
Container Properties ................................................................................................................................................................. 133
Comment & Markup Example ................................................................................................................................................... 136
Stamps ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 140
Adding New Stamps .............................................................................................................................................................. 141
Sticky Note Tool ........................................................................................................................................................................ 141
Notation Tools .......................................................................................................................................................................... 143
Typewriter Tool .................................................................................................................................................................... 143
Textbox Tool ......................................................................................................................................................................... 145
Callout Tool .......................................................................................................................................................................... 145
Text Highlighting Tools .............................................................................................................................................................. 146
Highlight Tool ....................................................................................................................................................................... 146
Crossout Tool ........................................................................................................................................................................ 147
Underline Tool ...................................................................................................................................................................... 147
Markup Tools............................................................................................................................................................................ 148
Line and Arrow Tools ............................................................................................................................................................ 148
Rectangle Tool ...................................................................................................................................................................... 149
Oval (Circle) Tool ................................................................................................................................................................... 149
Polygon Line Tool .................................................................................................................................................................. 149
Polygon Tool ......................................................................................................................................................................... 150
Cloud Tool ............................................................................................................................................................................ 150
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File Attachment Tool ............................................................................................................................................................. 151
Pencil Tool ............................................................................................................................................................................ 151
Eraser Tool............................................................................................................................................................................ 151
Show Stamps Palette ................................................................................................................................................................ 151
Show Comments And Markup Toolbar ...................................................................................................................................... 151
Show Comments List................................................................................................................................................................. 152
Measuring Tools......................................................................................................................................................... 153
Distance Tool ............................................................................................................................................................................ 153
Perimeter Tool .......................................................................................................................................................................... 157
Area Tool .................................................................................................................................................................................. 160
Link Tools ................................................................................................................................................................... 163
Rectangle Link Tool ................................................................................................................................................................... 163
Quadrilateral Link Tool .............................................................................................................................................................. 166
Link Properties & Actions .......................................................................................................................................................... 167
Window ......................................................................................................................................................... 173
Help................................................................................................................................................................ 175
Toolbars Area............................................................................................................................. 177
File Toolbar .................................................................................................................................................... 179
Rotate View Toolbar ...................................................................................................................................... 180
Standard Toolbar ........................................................................................................................................... 180
Zoom Toolbar ................................................................................................................................................. 180
Find Toolbar ................................................................................................................................................... 181
Comment & Markup Toolbar ......................................................................................................................... 183
Links Editor Toolbar ....................................................................................................................................... 183
Measuring Toolbar ......................................................................................................................................... 183
Navigation Bar ........................................................................................................................... 184
SHELL EXTENSIONS AND IFILTER ......................................................................... 186
Shell Extensions ......................................................................................................................... 186
iFilter .......................................................................................................................................... 186
FAQ'S AND HOW-TO'S ........................................................................................ 187
Frequently Asked Questions ...................................................................................................... 187
Form Drop Box Fields are not accepting typed-in content ............................................................................. 187
I can't select text within my PDF .................................................................................................................... 187
I want to use my signature in a PDF ............................................................................................................... 187
PDFs won't open in Firefox ............................................................................................................................ 187
Why am I still getting evaluation watermarks on my PDF files? .................................................................... 188
Why have my toolbars and/or menu disappeared?....................................................................................... 188
Why can’t I send PDFs via my Eudora email client? ....................................................................................... 188
I’ve lost my License information. ................................................................................................................... 188
Why do my PDF files no longer open in PDF-XChange Viewer? ..................................................................... 189
I can’t find the answers I need in the Help Manual. ...................................................................................... 189
HOW-TO Perform Common Actions .......................................................................................... 190
HOW-TO Reorder Pages in a PDF using Thumbnail Drag & Drop ................................................................... 190
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HOW-TO Drag and Drop Pages between PDFs ............................................................................................... 191
HOW-TO Create User Stamps and Stamp Palettes ......................................................................................... 194
HOW-TO Create a Stamp from an Image File ............................................................................................................. 196
HOW-TO Create Transparent Stamps ......................................................................................................................... 197
HOW-TO Create a Stamp from a PDF Document ........................................................................................................ 197
HOW-TO Create Stamp from Clipboard Image ........................................................................................................... 198
HOW-TO Set a new default font and formatting for Typewriter, Text Box and Callout ................................ 199
TRACKER SOFTWARE PRODUCTS ........................................................................ 200
Contact Us.................................................................................................................................. 200
Products ..................................................................................................................................... 201
PDF-XChange Viewer Licensing ................................................................................................. 202
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Introduction
Please note that from Build 2.0.39.x of the PDF-XChange Viewer our help files are provided in PDF format only – any older Viewer Help
files in ‘CHM’ HTML format are not up to date and should be deleted from your system.
Tracker Software Products Ltd
are the authors and publishers of a number of award winning software applications and developer
toolkits including the best selling PDF-XChange and PDF-Tools products for the creation and manipulation of Adobe compatible PDF
files.
Our tools are used by millions of clients around the world to work with the now ubiquitous Portable Document Format (PDF) created by
Adobe Inc and released as an open standard to provide a common means to present documents that would always look the same when
viewed on a user’s PC - even if the Viewing party did not have all the fonts and images present on their own PC - could be contained
within the PDF file to ensure common viewing.
To accompany the standard format, Adobe created a free viewer to ensure that anybody could view distributed PDF files freely without
requiring the purchase of any additional software - the viewer was made freely available.
To create PDF files the user could purchase Adobe Acrobat from Adobe direct or as the specification of PDF format was freely available
to competing software authors - software applications from 3rd parties quickly appeared and this healthy competition along with the
stability of a freely available viewer at no cost has ensured that the PDF format has now become 'the' preferred method to share
documents between Government agencies, departments privately and for companies large and small.
Everybody was happy, Adobe was the philanthropic author of a world wide standard available to anyone, End users and Suppliers could
share all manner of documents and information and there was a healthy 3rd party software community expanding the market and
ensuring that inexpensive solutions for creating and manipulating PDF files was available, for even the smallest business and private
user - whilst Adobe remained at the top of the heap, providing heavyweight commercial solutions for big business.
And then ... for some reason only known to Adobe, they decided that some functionality would be available to users of their free Adobe
Reader only if they used a product officially 'certified' to offer this functionality by Adobe - all competing software applications would
now have to apply to Adobe for a certificate or the new functionality would not be possible with files made by competing and 'non'
certified PDF creation and manipulation tools.
To be clear - we are not talking here about the creation of PDF files - but the ability to see and use files already created and then to be
viewed in Adobe's free PDF reader, most specifically commenting and annotation added to PDF files by non-Adobe creation tools -
these could not be read by the Free Adobe Reader!
Suddenly the 'Open' PDF format was not so open and it is our concern that Adobe will continue to extend this in the future to regain
some degree of control over who can create software with the ability to offer advanced PDF creation and manipulation functionality -
whereas in the past, the primary reason for the success of this standard format has been the fact that any software company has been
free to create products for the purpose without interference from any party - including Adobe.
And that is why it has taken us almost 4 years to create the 'Free' PDF-XChange Viewer to allow PDF files created by any software (not
just ours or Adobe's) that adheres to the open PDF format specification as defined by Adobe - to take advantage of these extended
features.
However - we have not stopped there, we have added extra useful features and functionality that users have told us they would find
advantageous and we will continue to do so over the coming months and years - mostly free - but we have also added advanced
functionality to modify, manipulate and create new PDF files, that we make a modest charge for, to allow us to continue in our
endeavor's - however - feel free to restrict your use to the free functionality should you not find the enhanced functionality of the paid
for 'PRO' version of use to you.
We commit to not making any functions for viewing content a chargeable extra in the PDF-XChange Viewer and to treat all files in the
PDF format as equal - no matter with which tool they have been created - whether Adobe's, ours or any other 3rd party software
publishers - if the file has been created to conform and adhere to the PDF specification and uses functions supported by our viewer - it
will be viewable - irrespective of the origin of the creation Tools author.
A very important and significant change in the ongoing development of the PDF format is it is now no longer controlled and set by
Adobe - the PDF format is now officially controlled and determined by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and its
future wholly determined and controlled independently of Adobe Inc for the benefit of all users and independent software developers,
making the PDF format a truly open document format in perpetuity.
We hope you find this viewer robust and reliable for your purposes - should you need help or support - please visit our free user
support forums. We welcome you ideas and suggestions on these forums as well.
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IMPORTANT! FREE vs. PRO version
Important Notes for the PDF-XChange Viewer Build 2.035 and later!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
This was the very first build incorporating **NEW** features that required a paid-for License!
All the features you have been used to free - are still available as free functions and do not require a payment for license to use without
restriction - subject always to our License standard terms and conditions. We are constantly also adding new features to both the FREE
and paid for version - rest assured we have not simply used the offer of a FREE version to capture users interest and then removed the
ability to use these features subsequently and required payment - any features available freely now, will always be free to use - and we
are committed to expanding both the FREE features and those available in the PRO/Paid for versions.
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Warning *** Warning *** Warning *** Warning!!!!!
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All features marked as 'PRO' can only be used in evaluation mode from the free version.
If you save the file after having used these PRO features, it will be altered to include watermarks making it
obvious it has been modified with an evaluation copy.
These watermarks CANNOT subsequently be removed!
Please ensure that you do not modify original documents using these evaluation features if they cannot be
recreated again and if it is important to you and cannot be reproduced!
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Do you already own a PDF-XChange Viewer PRO License? You may and may not know it!!!
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If you own PDF-XChange PRO V4 or PDF-Tools V4 your license and serial number are also valid for this new PDF-XChange Viewer
PRO FREE of charge.
o Simply copy your Version 4 serial number from your receipt and paste it into the Viewer option:
o Edit -> preferences -> Registration
o Your saved PDF files using the special 'PRO' features will then be saved without any trial watermarks!!!
Currently the new PDF-XChange PRO Viewer offers these additional Features:
o Add/Edit Bookmarks
o Delete Pages
o Scan Image to PDF
o Insert Image/Signature file to PDF page
o Merge PDF files
o Extract PDF Image content to Raster format
o Extract Formatted text
o Flatten PDF file
o Optimize PDF
o Digital Signatures
All the above extra functions will be available without charge to owners of:
o PDF-XChange Viewer PRO Version 2.0
o PDF-Tools Version 4
o PDF-XChange PRO Version 4
For further information, please Contact Us!
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What Version Am I Running?
If you are not sure whether your Viewer is running in FREE or PRO mode, simply open the About PDF-XChange Viewer… screen and
check the upper right edge:
If you see the word 'FREE' then you are running in the unregistered FREE mode, and you must be careful not to save the PDF if you
make certain kinds of changes to it.
If you see 'PRO' then you are running in the registered PRO mode and all functionality is open to you.
In addition, when running in FREE mode, many menu items will be marked with a special marker that indicates that the specific feature
is PRO mode:
If you see these markers, be very careful not to save your PDF if you don't want the watermarks to appear.
Version history and projected future features...
To check for the latest Version history - please see this page on our web site:
http://www.tracker-software.com/PDFXV_history.html
For the status of features available in the PRO version (both current and up-coming):
http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer/feature_list
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Safety Feature
As a last resort, if you try to use a PRO feature in FREE mode, the following dialog will appear:
1) Click Yes and the feature will be used. If you then save the PDF it will have watermarks on each page.
2) Click No and the feature will not be used.
Notice!
PDF-XChange Viewer is a new and rapidly expanding product for Tracker Software Products, Ltd.
Due to the timing difference between the release of new versions of this product and the subsequent documentation, it is possible that
certain functions may be active but not completely documented in the download that you receive.
Where we know that certain functions will be available but are not active at the time of documentation, we have marked these items
with a legend in red such as:
N.B. This function was not available at the time of writing of this documentation revision.
Rest assured that we are aware of these and will be releasing new versions of the documentation as rapidly as we can to stay abreast of
the latest features of PDF-XChange Viewer!
This documentation is valid through version 2.00.4x.
Files List
The following files are required for correct operation of the PDF-XChange Viewer:
FILE NAME
DESCRIPTION
PDFXCview.exe
PDF-XChange Viewer executable
resource.dat
Support file for PDFXCview.exe
Latest (available) Release Notes
The latest release notes can be found at http://www.tracker-software.com/PDFXV_history.html.
To avoid delays – we often release a new build before the documentation is fully revised to ensure our clients have access to the
latest fixes and function updates, any changes that have been made can be viewed on the above page and by necessity therefore
may give information more up to date than that provided in this document.
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