On 3/5/08 5:11 PM, "Adam R. Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 3/5/08 2:00 PM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 5 Mar 2008, at 9:37 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 3/5/08 1:34 PM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>>> Also it's not clear to me really which view you mean, as you refer to
>>>>>>> "bottom" and "linked documents", while normally the bottom  preview
>>>>>>> displays a text representation of the selected publications.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The bottom pane of the main window displays the pdf file that is attached
>>>>>> to the selected record, because I have "View>>Preview Display>>Linked
>>>>>> File" selected.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Probably that won't matter, because I've removed that option and am not
>>>>> planning to put it back.
>>>>> 
>>>> You mean the PDF will no longer be visible in the main window? That will
>>>> make things much more difficult. Can that not be kept as an option?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> That's right, there has been a lot of motivation on the list before  as to
>>> why it actually is not a good idea. It reflects the selection, and it allows
>>> viewing PDFs to some extent. It's less well suited for reading the paper,
>>> but this pane is not well suited to read papers anyway.
>>> 
>> I use it to see whether the PDF has searchable text or not. If the  text is
>> searchable, parts of the text can be selected in that pane. If not,  not.
>> 
> Use the new file view for that, either in the side or bottom.  Hit cmd- y to
> open the PDF, and you can then select text if it's selectable.


Ah, that's pretty good. Sorry, I just can't keep up with the changes.






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