SumatraPDFS
SumatraPDF
Jan 16

Make positioning for Selections more tolerant

SumatraPDF requires precise positioning of the cursor to the first charcater to select text for copy/paste. This is very cumbersome! And it is very uncommon nowadays: Most programs (PDF-XChange, Foxit) allow to point somwhere into the white space left or above of the text-to-be-selected and to start selection there. SumatraPDF uses the out-of-text positioning to switch automatically to the 'move'-mode. However: in todays environments moves are usually done by the scroll-wheel of the mouse. It might be an alternative to have a relaxed positioning: e.g. 3 characters to the left of text and up to half a line above starts a selection, if you are further away it starts a move...
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