Adaptive full width for PDF (one-click)
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would be great + QoL improvement to have a one-click way to set PDF-views to full page width. it´s something nearly every app working w/ PDFs has; and it would greatly improve some work scenarios – … like working with pdfs in side panel, inhibiting the 'floating page' problem etc.
– in a way this is a sub-request to this larger scope ticket: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/pdf-object-improvements
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Luca Joos
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This improvement was part of Capacities v1.43.0. Read more about this release here: https://capacities.io/whats-new/release-43.
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Luca Joos great this was improved – here my reading / experience of the new state, so just you guys have a feedback on this:
• it feels the 100% view is quite a good view,
• the 'floating feeling' of the PDF, which was the biggest disturbance IMO, is partially gone…! YAI! Thx for that.
Then, I am still seeing some troubles and not really finding a 1-click solution to full-page view as standard in PDF-viewers. so, just to match perspectives here:
• the PDF view canvas at 100% still 'breaks out to the right for me; and in 100% view I still get a PDF that minimally edges over right border. While the feeling of 'floatiness' is gone, I am not sure what this extra space' might be good for, and it might irritate people
• if I am 'reading' you right, marking 'Adaptive full width for PDF (one-click)' translates into '100% view = full-width = = standard view'; so just to note: a) there is / seems no '1 click', in the sense it is present in standard PDF-viewers (or I am missing the cue / documentation; so, if I want to switch to full-width view from a 50% view, I still have to go into the factor-field and manually type 100% (or am I missing something?)
• also, as you try to level up media views, a remark from professional PDF-perspective: in all professional PDF-viewers 100% normally means '1:1' view in terms of resolution (just like in image case); what this 'dynamical 100%' view seems to represent is an (almost) full-width view.
So, I am already feeling better here.
But wanted to leave you a feedback on a user experience / perspective.
Luca Joos
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Thanks for reporting.
Luca Joos
Thanks for the feedback, do you mean full width embed or object views?
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Luca Joos I mean the PDF view itself.
currently, one can press '+' and '-' to adapt – roughly.
but first, it never really matches the PDF display window itself;
second, normal expectation is to have a 1-click solution.
fitting pdfs in full width, so one can see everything in one view, and
disallow any wiggle space while scrolling or paging through
, is what most apps somehow provide…Luca Joos
vision assemblies: I see, thanks for pointing that out. This is a good idea, even if it is not the highest priority!
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hey Luca Joos,
great to see this planned! appreciated!
… one 'P.S. thought', or a kind of deepening the thought / intention:
I now think, what I wanted to get to is the simple fact that PDFs are
page based
. so, people in standard use / expectation, really want to interact with & view pages. everything else is derivative on that (zooming in; seeing page spreads(!), browsing + scrolling multiple pages, interacting with chapters / bookmarks etc.so, what I think would really improve the whole 'impact' of embedded PDFs is a way to auto focus the page dimensions of any given PDF.
(I am aware some PDFs can have different pages dimensions; but this really is a deviation from standard logic).
this would
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height alongside width, and it would be nice to provide a way to resize the view-window dimensions to match the standard page dimension of any given PDF. – I do think this could even be done as default setting, as it simply is the most 'natural' way to interact with PDFs. but alternatively, any 'one-click' solution to get there would also be very helpful / welcome…
Thx for further consideration hereto. 🙏