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Bug reports / PDF-ShellTools Pop-up Error

« Last post by a1astair on October 11, 2025, 10:32:56 PM »

Hi,

Every time I start my Windows 11 Pro PC, I get the following error message displayed: "Access violation at address" (screenshot attached)

Normally I just click on OK and it goes away, but now every time I click on it another error message pops up.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Cheers,

Al

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Ideas/Suggestions / Re: Filtering on Fields

« Last post by RTT on February 01, 2025, 02:08:43 AM »

That tool has a "DB only" option, in order to save the changes only into the DB.

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Ideas/Suggestions / Re: Filtering on Fields

« Last post by puckman on January 31, 2025, 09:00:35 PM »

I appreciate the suggestion.  I thought of that before posting my suggestion.  I know that's possible.  I didn't want to bloat the document with custom metadata.

Thank you.

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Ideas/Suggestions / Re: Filtering on Fields

« Last post by RTT on January 30, 2025, 02:26:42 AM »

It's feasible, but will slow down the filter function with large number of files grids. I will look into it.
Meanwhile, if these calculated columns values are not dynamic, you may use the Edit Info Fields batch tool to transfer these values into a DB custom field. The tool has access to these calculated values, with the [Dn] constants.

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Ideas/Suggestions / Re: Filtering on Fields

« Last post by puckman on January 28, 2025, 10:40:15 PM »

I would like to see an additional filtering feature.

I have created two calculated columns based on a one in the database.  Currently, the calculated columns do not show up in the list under the Filter tab.

Is this a feasible feature to add in a future version of PDFE?  This would enhance my productivity.

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Bug reports / Re: Persistent error in PDFE

« Last post by puckman on November 30, 2024, 04:37:27 PM »

Instead of using the Acrobat plugin as the PDFE PDF reader try using the Sumatra PDF one, with the help of the NPAPI interface.
Sumatra PDF stopped delivering the NPAPI plugin with the 3.0 release, so you need to install the old 2.5.2 version (https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/download-prev), to get the npPDFViewer.dll file. Make sure you select, from the SumatraPDF installer options, the "install browser plugin..." option. You can then install the latest Sumatra PDF over that one. The dll will remain and will still work with the latest versions, even the 64-bit ones.
After you configure PDFE to use it (check attached screenshot) you will have a much more stable reader, without these errors.

Switching the plug-in worked like a charm.

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General / Re: barcode import list

« Last post by nightslayer23 on November 12, 2024, 01:56:43 AM »

perfect - worked exactly as described - thankyou again 

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General / Re: barcode import list

« Last post by RTT on November 11, 2024, 06:32:40 PM »

From withing the stamp tool, use the above explanation to add a script for the handling of the dynamic functionality (Dynamic Text Stamp Settings button). Name it SelectValueFromCSV, and add this code to it.

Code: [Select]

var Lines = [];

function SelectValueFromCSV(params) {
    var opt = params.split(',');
    if (!Lines.length) {
        var objFSO = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
        var objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(opt[0], 1 /*ForReading*/ , false, 0);
        while (!objTextFile.AtEndOfStream) {
            var strNextLine = objTextFile.Readline();
            Lines.push(strNextLine.split(','));
        }
        objTextFile.Close();
    }
    return parseInt(Lines[CurrentTask.PageNumber][opt[1]], 10);
}

Now you can call it from any text, or barcode, stamp object, configured as Dynamic, like this:

[<SelectValueFromCSV>](c:\temp\test.csv,0) To fetch the serial number
[<SelectValueFromCSV>](c:\temp\test.csv,1) To fetch the QR code
[<SelectValueFromCSV>](c:\temp\test.csv,2) To fetch the registration code

In this example I'm explicitly typing the path to the csv file (change it to match yours), but you can replace it with the [C1] constant, if you want to have the previous example possibility to call it from a shell context menu item.
Or you may also configure a My Tools stamp tool to have this stamp operation directly accessible from the Shell context menu.

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Bug reports / Re: Russian characters in info fields

« Last post by RTT on November 11, 2024, 05:15:44 PM »

It is indeed a bug. Thanks for reporting.

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General / Re: barcode import list

« Last post by nightslayer23 on November 11, 2024, 07:15:07 AM »

attached