Great piece of software. Here are a few suggestions meant to further improve it.
1. Automatic zoom level currently fits the width of the page. Alternatively, some readers like to adjust it to fit the height of a page. It would be nice if the Command-= shortcut toggled this automatic zoom mode between width-fit and height-fit.
2. When I move down using the space key, the overlap between the former view and the new view seems very small (1 line of text or less), which can be confusing.
3. Readability could be greatly improved by displaying pages side-by-side instead of one above the other. The Tofu application (http://amarsagoo.info/tofu) is a good example of this for text files. It would be nice if PDFView supported this arrangement as an option.
4. In the case of a "horinzontal layout" of the pages (see point 3 above), the forward ("space bar") motion could be set (e.g. in the Preferences) to either 1 or 1/2 page (again, Tofu-like). This would be especially useful for documents typeset in 2 columns.
5. In full screen view, is the scroll bar on the right absolutely necessary? After all, the whole point of full screen is to hide control elements.
6. In full screen view, I like that the reader can use various keys without the command-key. This behavior should probably also apply to arrow keys ("Next" and "Previous").
Thanks for all the good work so far. I would donate a few bucks for a "Tofu-like" PDFView.
When in full screen, in order to go to the next or previous page I have to type 'command-arrow'. If I just tye 'arrow', nothing happens.
Also, as far as I can tell, when NOT in full screen, if I type '=' or '+' or '-', nothing happens. If I type 'command-=' or 'command-+' etc., the zoom changes as expected.
Too bad about the horizontal pages layout. I'll just have to rotate all pages and hold my laptop upright (which makes it awkward to type 'command-arrow', by the way, so 'arrow' would make life simpler).
Thanks again.
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1. Automatic zoom level currently fits the width of the page. Alternatively, some readers like to adjust it to fit the height of a page. It would be nice if the Command-= shortcut toggled this automatic zoom mode between width-fit and height-fit.
2. When I move down using the space key, the overlap between the former view and the new view seems very small (1 line of text or less), which can be confusing.
3. Readability could be greatly improved by displaying pages side-by-side instead of one above the other. The Tofu application (http://amarsagoo.info/tofu) is a good example of this for text files. It would be nice if PDFView supported this arrangement as an option.
4. In the case of a "horinzontal layout" of the pages (see point 3 above), the forward ("space bar") motion could be set (e.g. in the Preferences) to either 1 or 1/2 page (again, Tofu-like). This would be especially useful for documents typeset in 2 columns.
5. In full screen view, is the scroll bar on the right absolutely necessary? After all, the whole point of full screen is to hide control elements.
6. In full screen view, I like that the reader can use various keys without the command-key. This behavior should probably also apply to arrow keys ("Next" and "Previous").
Thanks for all the good work so far. I would donate a few bucks for a "Tofu-like" PDFView.
When in full screen, in order to go to the next or previous page I have to type 'command-arrow'. If I just tye 'arrow', nothing happens.
Also, as far as I can tell, when NOT in full screen, if I type '=' or '+' or '-', nothing happens. If I type 'command-=' or 'command-+' etc., the zoom changes as expected.
Too bad about the horizontal pages layout. I'll just have to rotate all pages and hold my laptop upright (which makes it awkward to type 'command-arrow', by the way, so 'arrow' would make life simpler).
Thanks again.