PDF-Xchange Viewer

[Seum]

I have had this Viewer for a while and whenever I fill out a form the
type is very faint. This is the original setting.

Does anyone know how this can be set to a sensible level?

TIA

 

[VanguardLH]

I have had this Viewer for a while and whenever I fill out a form the
type is very faint. This is the original setting.

Under View -> Toolbars, select to view the Properties toolbar. This
shows the properties of the currently selected object (not the same as
the File -> Document Properties menu). Alternatively, you can use the
Ctrl+E shortcut to toggle on/off the display of the Properties bar. The
shortcut is shown in the View -> Toolbars menu for the Properties entry.

For a text object (you created using the Typewriter tool), double-click
on the text and the Properties toolbar should show you selections for
font type, font size, You have to double-click because a single-click
just selects the text box. You want to get inside the text box. If you
have the Properties toolbar already displayed, when you [create a
textbox and] are inserting text, it also shows the font settings.

Once you setup text inside a text box the way you want (font, size,
color, bold/italic/underline, and centering), you can make that the
default style for that object you create later.

 

[Seum]

I have had this Viewer for a while and whenever I fill out a form the
type is very faint. This is the original setting.

Under View -> Toolbars, select to view the Properties toolbar. This
shows the properties of the currently selected object (not the same as
the File -> Document Properties menu). Alternatively, you can use the
Ctrl+E shortcut to toggle on/off the display of the Properties bar. The
shortcut is shown in the View -> Toolbars menu for the Properties entry.

For a text object (you created using the Typewriter tool), double-click
on the text and the Properties toolbar should show you selections for
font type, font size, You have to double-click because a single-click
just selects the text box. You want to get inside the text box. If you
have the Properties toolbar already displayed, when you [create a
textbox and] are inserting text, it also shows the font settings.

Once you setup text inside a text box the way you want (font, size,
color, bold/italic/underline, and centering), you can make that the
default style for that object you create later.

Thanks VamguardLH.

I returned to the origin of the PDF-Xchange Viewer and found it a bit
complicated. I finally downloaded a prog that was claimed to be free
but when it was installed I had a message that the prog was very limited
because it was part of the Pro version.

Enough of that.

I'm onto CutePDF now. I might just find it cute

 

[VanguardLH]

I have had this Viewer for a while and whenever I fill out a form the
type is very faint. This is the original setting.

Under View -> Toolbars, select to view the Properties toolbar. This
shows the properties of the currently selected object (not the same as
the File -> Document Properties menu). Alternatively, you can use the
Ctrl+E shortcut to toggle on/off the display of the Properties bar. The
shortcut is shown in the View -> Toolbars menu for the Properties entry.

For a text object (you created using the Typewriter tool), double-click
on the text and the Properties toolbar should show you selections for
font type, font size, You have to double-click because a single-click
just selects the text box. You want to get inside the text box. If you
have the Properties toolbar already displayed, when you [create a
textbox and] are inserting text, it also shows the font settings.

Once you setup text inside a text box the way you want (font, size,
color, bold/italic/underline, and centering), you can make that the
default style for that object you create later.

Thanks VamguardLH.

I returned to the origin of the PDF-Xchange Viewer and found it a bit
complicated. I finally downloaded a prog that was claimed to be free
but when it was installed I had a message that the prog was very limited
because it was part of the Pro version.

Enough of that.

I'm onto CutePDF now. I might just find it cute

Please explain how CutePDF Writer (aka CutePDF Printer) equals
PDF-Xchange? CutePDF Writer is an emulated printer driver that will
produce .pdf files. This is like PDFCreator, Bullzip PDF Printer (I use
this one), and so on. CutePDF Writer/Printer was just another one of
those. PDF-Xchange is a PDF viewer. You can get its PDF printer but I
prefer Bullzip and use PDF-XChange as the viewer/annotator.

In fact, CutePDF Writer doesn't even include a viewer hence no
annotator. After an install of CutePDF Writer, all you get is their
emulated printer so you can use the Print function in some *other*
application to use CutePDF Writer to generate a .pdf file. Once you
have the .pdf file, CutePDF Writer is useless. It doesn't even provide
you with a PDF viewer so you need to install something else to look at
the .pdf file you just created with CutePDF Writer. So just how could
CutePDF Writer be better than PDF-Xchange?

 

[Seum]

Seum wrote:

I have had this Viewer for a while and whenever I fill out a form the
type is very faint. This is the original setting.
Under View -> Toolbars, select to view the Properties toolbar. This
shows the properties of the currently selected object (not the same as
the File -> Document Properties menu). Alternatively, you can use the
Ctrl+E shortcut to toggle on/off the display of the Properties bar. The
shortcut is shown in the View -> Toolbars menu for the Properties entry.

For a text object (you created using the Typewriter tool), double-click
on the text and the Properties toolbar should show you selections for
font type, font size, You have to double-click because a single-click
just selects the text box. You want to get inside the text box. If you
have the Properties toolbar already displayed, when you [create a
textbox and] are inserting text, it also shows the font settings.

Once you setup text inside a text box the way you want (font, size,
color, bold/italic/underline, and centering), you can make that the
default style for that object you create later.

Thanks VamguardLH.

I returned to the origin of the PDF-Xchange Viewer and found it a bit
complicated. I finally downloaded a prog that was claimed to be free
but when it was installed I had a message that the prog was very limited
because it was part of the Pro version.

Enough of that.

I'm onto CutePDF now. I might just find it cute

Please explain how CutePDF Writer (aka CutePDF Printer) equals
PDF-Xchange? CutePDF Writer is an emulated printer driver that will
produce .pdf files. This is like PDFCreator, Bullzip PDF Printer (I use
this one), and so on. CutePDF Writer/Printer was just another one of
those. PDF-Xchange is a PDF viewer. You can get its PDF printer but I
prefer Bullzip and use PDF-XChange as the viewer/annotator.

In fact, CutePDF Writer doesn't even include a viewer hence no
annotator. After an install of CutePDF Writer, all you get is their
emulated printer so you can use the Print function in some *other*
application to use CutePDF Writer to generate a .pdf file. Once you
have the .pdf file, CutePDF Writer is useless. It doesn't even provide
you with a PDF viewer so you need to install something else to look at
the .pdf file you just created with CutePDF Writer. So just how could
CutePDF Writer be better than PDF-Xchange?

Oppss!! VanguardLH. It seems that I need to look further. Adobe will do
most of what I want - Reading/Writing - in the near future. Or maybe
I'll dump the present messed-up PDF-X and get a replacement. I'm in no
hurry with many other problems bugging me.

Have a great week

 

[VanguardLH]

Oppss!! VanguardLH. It seems that I need to look further. Adobe will do
most of what I want - Reading/Writing - in the near future. Or maybe
I'll dump the present messed-up PDF-X and get a replacement. I'm in no
hurry with many other problems bugging me.

Adobe is a company name so you have not identified a product. Adobe
Reader won't let you edit a .pdf file to, say, add annotations to it.
Adobe Acrobat will do this but is extremely expensive.

Also, Adobe Reader, if that's what you meant, is targeted by malware
authors in exposing the vulnerabilities in that product. I haven't seen
any Secunia alerts on PDF-Xchange, plus PDF-Xchange has security
features that are missing in Adobe Reader, like:

- PDFs can contain a "launch" command. This has a PDF launch a
program. Do you really want to open a .pdf file to have it launch
some separate program whose actions you are unaware? PDF-Xchange
lets you decide on what is allowed for launch: For all types (no
restrictions and very dangerous), Never (most restrictive), Always
ask for PDFs (my choice and the default), and Only for PDFs (only
launches another .pdf file open).

- PDFs can have attachments (other files included inside the .pdf
file). The opening of a .pdf file could result in opening its
attachments. PDF-Xchange gives you the same choices as above.

- An option to allow opening a URL in a document with no warning. I
disable this so I get prompted that clicking on a URL is taking me
outside the document and performing a connection outside of
PDF-Xchange.

Both provide an option to disable Javascript inside a .pdf file and you
should enable that disable. It will be rare when you get a .pdf file
that uses Javascript for legitimate purposes except a rare-time
occurrence for a PDF doc inside your company. The author(s) of
PDF-Xchange have been responsive to user requests, especially regarding
security (some of the above were my suggestions although others may have
also requested the same security protections).

PDF-Xchange is also much more lightweight on disk and memory resouces
than is Adobe Reader, plus you don't get stuck with Adobe's download
manager when all you want is their Reader (unless you find their stand-
alone installer instead of using their downloaded web installer).

I don't know what of "Adobe" you meant as an editor/annotator of .pdf
files since that's a company name. Reader won't do what you want.
Acrobat is pricey.

If you are looking for a cheap or free alternative PDF *editor* to Adobe
Acrobat (with as many feature or with fewer for an easier-to-use
product), I'd suggest asking over in the alt.comp.free newsgroup.

Personally I don't see clicking inside a text object or having the
Properties toolbar displayed as such an onus in using PDF-Xchange to
annotate a PDF document.

 

[Zaidy036]

VanguardLH wrote:
Seum wrote:

I have had this Viewer for a while and whenever I fill out a form
the type is very faint. This is the original setting.
Under View -> Toolbars, select to view the Properties toolbar. This
shows the properties of the currently selected object (not the same as
the File -> Document Properties menu). Alternatively, you can use the
Ctrl+E shortcut to toggle on/off the display of the Properties bar. The
shortcut is shown in the View -> Toolbars menu for the Properties
entry.

For a text object (you created using the Typewriter tool), double-click
on the text and the Properties toolbar should show you selections for
font type, font size, You have to double-click because a single-click
just selects the text box. You want to get inside the text box. If you
have the Properties toolbar already displayed, when you [create a
textbox and] are inserting text, it also shows the font settings.

Once you setup text inside a text box the way you want (font, size,
color, bold/italic/underline, and centering), you can make that the
default style for that object you create later.
Thanks VamguardLH.

I returned to the origin of the PDF-Xchange Viewer and found it a bit
complicated. I finally downloaded a prog that was claimed to be free
but when it was installed I had a message that the prog was very
limited because it was part of the Pro version.

Enough of that.

I'm onto CutePDF now. I might just find it cute

Please explain how CutePDF Writer (aka CutePDF Printer) equals
PDF-Xchange? CutePDF Writer is an emulated printer driver that will
produce .pdf files. This is like PDFCreator, Bullzip PDF Printer (I use
this one), and so on. CutePDF Writer/Printer was just another one of
those. PDF-Xchange is a PDF viewer. You can get its PDF printer but I
prefer Bullzip and use PDF-XChange as the viewer/annotator.

In fact, CutePDF Writer doesn't even include a viewer hence no
annotator. After an install of CutePDF Writer, all you get is their
emulated printer so you can use the Print function in some *other*
application to use CutePDF Writer to generate a .pdf file. Once you
have the .pdf file, CutePDF Writer is useless. It doesn't even provide
you with a PDF viewer so you need to install something else to look at
the .pdf file you just created with CutePDF Writer. So just how could
CutePDF Writer be better than PDF-Xchange?

Oppss!! VanguardLH. It seems that I need to look further. Adobe will do
most of what I want - Reading/Writing - in the near future. Or maybe
I'll dump the present messed-up PDF-X and get a replacement. I'm in no
hurry with many other problems bugging me.

Have a great week

take a look at the free Foxit Reader at
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/reader/

I think it will do all that you want and more, faster