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Further to what I wrote above .......
I would like to suggest that there has been a lack of forethought and/or testing of this new style of handling PDFs.
Via the right-click context menu, it is possible to reduce a PDF to an icon (see it as an attachment) and then double-clicking it brings it up in your default PDF reader (mine is Foxit). However, each PDF has to be individually set as an attachment since I can't find a way to set the whole note to 'attachment mode'. [Actually, I wouldn't want to do this anyway!]
On the context menu there is an item 'Open PDF in Foxit' but it doesn't work! It just opens my browser to a Foxit website!
Previously I used to select a number of PDFs (Ctrl-c) and paste them into a note. They would then appear in a predictable order. Now the order is unpredictable and not all of them get pasted!
C'mon guys, let's revert to the old system!
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The visual aspect of a PDF placed in a note has changed in the latest version (6.8.7.6387) - much for the worse in my opinion!
I now see less of the PDF on the screen owing to a charcoal border, and I have to independently scroll the PDF itself instead of the (entire) note. This is even more cumbersome when there is more than one PDF in the note (I typically use 1-page PDFs).
There are also buttons that really are not necessary and could have their functionality less obtrusively provided with a right-click context menu.
But the worst things of all are that:
1) I can no longer double-click on a PDF in a note to open it (independently) in my PDF reader! In previous versions this has been possible.
I do see a button for downloading the PDF and saving it in the file system, but this manoeuvre is way too cumbersome and time-consuming if I just want to read the PDF in the most flexible way possible (e.g. in Adobe Reader). I would also have to be cleaning up the file system all the time.
2) I am unable to remove a PDF from a note! So I have to delete the note, re-create it and add all the PDFs except the one I wished to remove!
Please can we turn the clock back. It was fine before but it is broken now.
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New-style PDF viewing - ugh!
in Evernote for Windows Requests (Versions 6.25.1 and under)
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I use Windows and I don't think I have an icon corresponding to the 'eyeball' you mention.
I can do a right-click and choose Open, or 'Open With' followed by FoxIt from the context menu - this does work. Less convenient than a double-click, though.
Since I initiated this thread I have seen what looks to me like the same PDF interface in other software products and on the web. So I think that it must be a software widget.
However, it seems that very little thought has been given to interfacing it conveniently with Evernote and there are bugs - for example, regarding pasting a number of PDFs into a note as a single operation. This doesn't always result in all of them being pasted. Further, the order in which they appear is strange and is not what it used to be!
The other big issue for me is that it has changed my whole way of working with Evernote to the extent that I may not ever have chosen it as my software tool. Or I may have done things differently. As it is, over the course of several years I have built up a database and a way of working that has now been crippled.