internal pdf reader "Find in Document" + "Zoom to Page Height" mess

gustav.kalm
Hi!

Thank you for developing this tool.

I have a problem with the search feature when using Zoom to Page Height in the internal pdf reader. Zoom to Page Height normally keeps vertically one page in sight. However, when you launch Zoom function and move to next results, it no longer sticks to a page but simultaneously shows the bottom of one page and the top of another page. Could you change it so that it sticks to showing full page(s) when "Zoom to Page Height" is chosen instead of showing bottom of one and top of another when going through responses to a find query?

The current configuration is noisy and confusing.

Thank you!
  • martynas_b
    This is an interesting suggestion but Zoom to Page Height isn't strictly about showing only a single page at a time. I know some PDF readers support a dedicated single-page mode, where sticking to one page makes sense when searching.

    Also, not everyone may prefer staying on a single page while searching.
  • gustav.kalm
    Maybe an option would be then adding an associated choice like "allow scroll"? Many of us read a lot of documents on this app. So it would be useful to have more control over how pdfs are displayed (also changing default viewing settings for example).
  • martynas_b
    Do you want a strict single-page mode only when searching or always? Could you also explain in which cases it would be useful?
  • gustav.kalm
    The current "Zoom to Page Height" already does that when viewing documents. If I scroll with the mouse or trackpad it displays bottom of one and top of the next page. But if I go through with up-down arrows, it just shows full pages. I typically read pdfs that are journal articles or full books or book chapters on an external monitor that displays a two page spread horizontally. This looks and feels more like the paper book or journal. When I open search "Find in Document" it no longer displays full pages but tops and bottoms and it gets messy on the screen, ie. I do not automatically see the page number of the page on which the result is or if there are any headings on that page. The printed "metadata" or the useful editorial peritext that is structured by the page gets lost in this scroll-like reading mode. If one is continuously reading it is perhaps not so bad, but when doing a search in a text it is useful to quickly track in which sections of the text the result is..
  • warwickmm
    This sounds a bit related:

    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/482911/#Comment_482911

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