> On 27 Jul 2015, at 00:04, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Am 27.07.2015 um 08:42 schrieb Tilman Hausherr:
>> Am 27.07.2015 um 08:26 schrieb John Hewson:
>>>> On 26 Jul 2015, at 13:11, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Am 26.07.2015 um 22:00 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I like all those new features which were added to PDFDebugger lately, as 
>>>>> far as I've already found them ;-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm thinking about removing PDFReader as PDFDebugger is now able to 
>>>>> render single pages as well and it is doing it even better.
>>>> -1
>>>> 
>>>> I've seen this coming... but although I had a part in including reader 
>>>> features in PDFDebugger, I think that PDFDebugger is for the professional 
>>>> "PDF detective", while PDFReader is to "just view" a PDF file. I.e. a 
>>>> newbie, when starting PDFDebugger, would be confused. PDFReader does have 
>>>> some small features not in PDFDebugger, like PageUp / PageDown (also 
>>>> implemented by my student).
>>> I don't think that there are many newbies using PDFReader, most seasoned 
>>> users don't seem to know that it exists. Based on the mailing list, it 
>>> seems that PDFToImage is the far more popular choice.
>> 
>> That has the disadvange that it leaves image files in the directory. Even I 
>> use PDFReader to view the rendering of PDF files.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Here's an idea: if we switch PDFDebugger to using "View Pages" by default, 
>>> it will no longer be confusing for casual users. I've found myself using 
>>> this mode most of the time anyway. We can add page up/down too, of course - 
>>> preferably using the actual "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys rather than the 
>>> bizarre choice of the +/- keys which are currently used in PDFReader.
>> 
>> Yes that would be a good idea. But don't ask student to do it, there's still 
>> a lot of regular features to implement, and don't delete PDFReader before 
>> that is done.
> 
> I meant to write:
> 
> Yes that would be a good idea. But don't ask my student to do it, there's 
> still a lot of regular features to implement, and don't delete PDFReader 
> before these improved  View features in PDFDebugger are done.

I’ll add it to my “todo” list.

— John

> Tilman
> 
>> 
>> Tilman
>> 
>>> 
>>> -- John
>>> 
>>>> Tilman
>>>> 
>>>> 
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