Preview Pane not very touch friendly

[davidc86]

The PDF Preview Pane is great, but it is not very touch friendly. In fact, it usually ignores touches.
On occasion I got the + - buttons to register my touch, but it generally only works if I touch on another window first, and then touch on the Title bar of the Preview Pane and then touch the + or - button. (Maybe because focus is still held by the window frame?)

Again, not a big bug, but something to be aware of, and if it is easy to make the pane touch-aware, that'd be cool. (Helpful when working on the road and messing with the mouse or a touch pad is cumbersome.)

[markpenny]

To be honest, I've never thought about the touch interface for PTXprint. (Now my screen has fingerprints all over it ;-) !!! but I can see what works and what doesn't.
I have contemplated doing pages with navigation buttons a bit like this:
|< < Page 73 / 146 > >| where 73 is editable and then the >> as well for show next underfilled page [yet to get that working for 1-col publications]
MH did warn me that as soon as we came up with a PDF Viewer, people would expect it to do everything a normal PDF viewer can do, and more. He was right. Someone else already said they were missing the Find Text option!
BTW - how do you do a right-click in the touch interface?

[davidc86]

You ask: - how do you do a right-click in the touch interface?
Use a LONG Press. (Just touch something longer than usual and Windows will pop open the rt-click menu.)

MH did warn me that as soon as we came up with a PDF Viewer, people would expect it to do everything a normal PDF viewer can do, and more. He was right. Someone else already said they were missing the Find Text option!

Yes, sorry. I've fired off a pile of those whiney kinds of "enhancement" requests myself.

But just so you know, even if nothing else is ever done to the PDF Preview Pane, it currently is a HUGE improvement over the old way. And your ideas for tweaking paragraphs etc in-place is a wonderful, powerful, enhancement to PTXprint's functionality. So don't be overwhelmed by our whining. It is exciting stuff, and we just want to help make it even better.

BTW, switching to |< < > >| buttons would be great!