Upgrade StorageZotero pdf reader issues/feature request
Hi, I posted these observations as a comment in the general pdf reader thread a few days ago but it might have gotten lost in the shuffle, so I thought I'd try in a new thread.
1) The shortcut CMD/Ctrl + F does not work immediately when opening a pdf, I have to click in the document first.
2) When the whole page of a pdf is viewed, normally no sideways movement/scrolling is possible. However, when selecting/highlighting text, one can suddenly scroll far to the right into the gray background area. I observed this issue on the Mac version of Zotero only.
3) When selecting text and dragging it into a note, it is set in quotation marks. Oftentimes, an unnecessary space appears before the second quotation mark, even though the selected text seemingly did not include a space at the end. The pasted text should probably never end with a space.
4) The pasted text is followed by a citation. Will it be possible in the future to copy both quote and citation into a Word document to produce a citation in the style selected in the document preferences? Currently, the citations are pasted as plain text.
5) For reasons of consistency, I wondered why the context menu in the left pane is activated by clicking the three dots on the annotations and the one in the right pane by right-clicking the note.
6) When viewing a pdf, it is currently not possible to add a new file to the library by dragging it into the Zotero window. I would suggest that the library opens up when hovering over the library tab while dragging a file.
1) The shortcut CMD/Ctrl + F does not work immediately when opening a pdf, I have to click in the document first.
2) When the whole page of a pdf is viewed, normally no sideways movement/scrolling is possible. However, when selecting/highlighting text, one can suddenly scroll far to the right into the gray background area. I observed this issue on the Mac version of Zotero only.
3) When selecting text and dragging it into a note, it is set in quotation marks. Oftentimes, an unnecessary space appears before the second quotation mark, even though the selected text seemingly did not include a space at the end. The pasted text should probably never end with a space.
4) The pasted text is followed by a citation. Will it be possible in the future to copy both quote and citation into a Word document to produce a citation in the style selected in the document preferences? Currently, the citations are pasted as plain text.
5) For reasons of consistency, I wondered why the context menu in the left pane is activated by clicking the three dots on the annotations and the one in the right pane by right-clicking the note.
6) When viewing a pdf, it is currently not possible to add a new file to the library by dragging it into the Zotero window. I would suggest that the library opens up when hovering over the library tab while dragging a file.
1) It'll be fixed
2) We can't reproduce that. @mschwarze @linansybil does that happen for all PDF files all the time or only for specific ones? There's a chance this is improved in the latest beta.
3) It'll be fixed
4) We'll try to, if that's possible from the technical side
5) The context menu will be added
6) Good point
Ad 2): It happens with almost every pdf and consistently across devices. I took a short video of the issue using a random Journal article which can be retrieved here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26490237?refreqid=excelsior:5b4c5248b2abeb591dedd2cd3bd935a1&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Link to the video: https://1drv.ms/v/s!At2iVKW7O0Q9qXLAEA8ytb66OVsV
Before I selected text no sideways scrolling was possible (as it should be).
Have you tested this on other platforms besides macOS?
Are there PDFs for which this issue never happens?
Yes, different to @linansybil I don't observe the issue on my office PC (Windows 10, beta 7 of Zotero). Could it have something to do with the mouse used? The mouse in my office doesn't allow for sideways scrolling whereas the Magic Mouse and trackpad do...
No, upon testing about 20, I couldn't find any pdf where the issue does not appear.
layout.css.devPixelsPerPxto 1 in the Config Editor, the issue disappears. See also https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/1972 for possibly related settings.@qqbb thanks for pointing me to
layout.css.devPixelsPerPx. It helped to reproduce the issue.I noticed one further issue which you probably have on your radar anyway: when selecting text, clicking on the blue area does not prompt the text to be deselected. Also, selecting text is a bit less responsive than in Acrobat, for example.
Here are two new issues. These would be enhancements to the PDF reader, which already works quite well and is aesthetically pleasing.
7) Double-clicking on an annotation item in the sidebar maximizes the highlight. I think it would be nice if triple-clicking could open the comment box. Also, it might help to allow for the same actions in the PDF pane. So, two clicks on a highlight in the PDF pane would maximize the highlight text in the sidebar. Three clicks would put the text cursor to the end of the comment box in the sidebar.
(There's also the action of selecting or editing the highlight text in the sidebar. I think this can currently be reached with double-clicking on a maximized highlight. For a closed highlight, this would be double-click, pause, double-click. So, it should be already separated from the proposed three-click action.)
8) When opening a PDF in the reader, show the outline in the sidebar if the PDF has bookmarks but no annotations.