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Main Area and Open Discussion => General Software Discussion => Topic started by: superboyac on April 28, 2009, 12:37 PM
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One thing I get annoyed in Acrobat and other pdf software is the whole rotation thing. Inevitably, there are always convenient buttons for rotating the view:
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But to really rotate the page permanantly, there's no button. Only a less useful dialog with options:
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This is fine normally, but gets annoying when you have to do it a lot because of the extra clicks. Why can't have a freakin button for real rotation. I keep waiting version after version after version, but it's never there. I hate how software people keep adding fancy new features to programs and never pay attention to minor little tweaks. I have this issue both in Acrobat Pro, and in my favorite PDF editor, Bluebeam.
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I think PDF viewers should in general be MUCH more customizable (like allow for adding custom buttons in custom order, not just enable/disable preset toolbars).
PDFTK is good at PDF rotation and easy to create batch jobs for with some scripting ( http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ ). But you can't currently access it from within a PDFviewer so if you have a lot of single documents to rotate (not at the same time) then It would still be a hassle. If it was easier to add custom toolbar buttons then it would also be easy to create a pdftk script shortcut button.
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No kidding, we're on version 9 already of Acrobat Pro and they keep adding useless feature after useless feature. All these features they add are used by like 1% of users, but they'll never fine tune the cool, often used features. Customizeable buttons and toolbars would have been nice, say, around version 6. Maybe they'll add it by version 15.
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I keep waiting version after version after version, but it's never there. I hate how software people keep adding fancy new features to programs and never pay attention to minor little tweaks.
-superboyac
hear hear -
I really think that that's how most users think.
But very few bigger software companies understand, unfortunately (and often the tweaks arent even so minor..)