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Ribbon/Top take up too much vertical space
Checking out Nitro for first time since the beta, I find you've adopted the ribbon - ugh! - but more importantly, it and the whole top is taking up way too much vertical real estate. On a 24" 1920x1200 monitor set at 119% dpi, I opened a magazine pdf I'd downloaded, and the page size difference vertically between Nitro and XChange Viewer is 9-1/2" vs. 10-1/8", both apps set to the same screen size. A lot of that's the ribbon. Measuring from the top of the app (screen top) to the bottom of the tab on each, Nitro takes up 2-7/16" vs. 1-5/8" XChange Viewer. Even with Nitro's better editing tools, I read a lot more than I edit PDFs, so those differences are hard to live with.
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Hi highstream,
You can minimize the ribbon by double clicking on it - you can then click to access the tools when needed, but without taking up screen real estate. Does that help your workflow?
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Double clicking gets no response. There is an arrow by the Find, upper right, that collapses the Ribbon. I'd rather have a thin bar, but that's really not the problem.
What is the problem is that even with a collapsed Ribbon the image does not expand vertically to fill the old space. It's still exactly the same, 9-1/2". So no, not acceptable.
In addition, my menu bar does not have tabs for Edit, Review, Forms or Protect that yours does, only File, Home and Help. I've been wondering where all the others are.- view 1 more comment
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Thanks for your reply. I assumed fit to page was default (as I assumed that all the other main menu tabs would be there). It is a stripped down version, understood.
One thing that I would suggest is a custom user entry for zoom. Even if the slide bar was more sensitive and allowed moving from, say, 50% to 48%, relatively few of us have mouses that are that exacting. A custom zoom choice, just as browser print previews typically have, would be helpful. -
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Hi highstream, you can click in the box where it says the zoom percentage and manually type in any zoom level from 12.5% up to 6400%!
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Ok, thanks. Take this as partly my not looking closely enough and partly the UI not being sufficiently obvious. Taking away that main menu and lots of the choices which usually show there is disorienting.
Please note that the use of a ribbon and a minimalist main menu favor one style of thinking/perceiving, which many people don't share. It's effectively the same difference as between MS Office 2000 and 2007/10. There are tons of people who innately (i.e., genetically) find the former style more natural than a ribbon. That's why I'd prefer user choice.
In any case, Nitro appears to have improved functionally since the beta. -
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After several days again with Nitro free again, one thing I'd like to see added to the Print dialogue box is a checkbox for Duplex printing. With so many duplex-capable printers out there, it would save time to have that option immediately available rather than have to go into Properties. Thanks,
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