Suggestions for builtin PDF viewer

Hi,

First of all: having the builtin PDF viewer is great, particularly the ability to take notes in the document. Thanks for the continuing evolution of this feature!

Some suggestions based on my recent experience using the builtin viewer to review a reasonable length (70+ page) document:

1. It would be deeply useful to have a "back" button. As it stands if I want to see what a reference resolves to/jump to a figure I have to either remember which page I'm on before I click the link in the PDF (so that I can navigate back to where I was before clicking) or have a second copy of the document open in another viewer. I'd like be able to follow the intra-document link and then click "back" to return to wherever I was when I followed the link.

2. I'm sure there are some situations in which the "Home" and "End" keys are actually practically useful, but in my experience they are the keys I hit accidentally when I'm trying for "pg up" or "pg dn". And then I curse because I now need to scroll to get back to wherever I was in the document. This would be less onerous if there was a "back" button, but I'd love to be able to either redefine these keys to me "top/bottom of current page" or just disable them.

FWIW: I'm using Zotero 5.0.97-beta.60+14caa3a89 on an Ubuntu Linux 20.04 box.

Thanks again for Zotero... it really improves my life as a researcher.
-greg
  • There are Back/Forward options in Go menu or you can just press Alt + Arrow Left. Isn't that enough?
  • Ah. I hadn't seen the options in the "Go" menu. Chalk that up to user error (and only looking at the icons on the toolbar) since that's exactly what I was looking for.

    @martynas_b: thanks for pointing out the mistake
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