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* → / ← scroll a page wider than the window sideways before turning it On a plan zoomed in, the arrow keys turned the page (#185) and never showed its other side: the view moved sideways only by the scroll bar, the wheel or the Hand. Now → / ← scroll a line that way while there is more of the page, and turn the page at its edge, as ↓ / ↑ do in single-page view. ⌘→ / ⌘← turn it at once; a page that fits across turns as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Review: → / ← read the current page's or spread's edges, not the widest page's; ui-parity's change record In continuous view the content is as wide as the widest page, so on a narrower current page that shows whole → scrolled toward the wide page's edge instead of turning. The edges are now the current page's (or spread's) as drawn, or the content's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Review: a spread's second page off screen still counts for → / ← The row's edges came from the pages' screen transforms, and a page gets one only while it meets the window. With a zoomed two-page spread scrolled so its second page was still wholly to the right of the window, the row ended with the first page, so the next → turned the spread instead of scrolling to the second page. The edges are now taken from the layout rectangles of every page in the row, placed as the drawn pages are. A TwoUp case in the viewer tests zooms a spread until its page gap sits at the window's right edge and checks that → scrolls on rather than turning. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Review: → / ← read the row after continuous view has moved the current page In continuous view the current page is updated while the pages are laid out, after the row's extent was taken, so the edges could describe the previous row and the next → or ← turn the page instead of scrolling the page that had just become current. The row is now read after that update. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Review: a page turned by → / ← at its edge starts at the edge the reader comes from Turning at a wide page's right edge with →, the next page kept the horizontal scroll (the same column, as other jumps keep it), so an equally wide page opened at its right edge and the next → turned again without showing its left side; ← had the same in reverse. When plain → or ← turns the page, a page or spread wider than the window now starts at its left (after →) or right (after ←). ⌘→ / ⌘←, Page Down / Page Up and every other jump keep the column. The sideways-arrow test now goes across two wide pages both ways: → scrolls the next page from its left edge, ← turns back to the previous page shown from its right edge. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Rebase: the sideways arrow keys through main's PageEnv, PageOut and GlideCx, and shown_row with its layout Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: FredApps <FredApps@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: FredApps <153173854+FredApps@users.noreply.github.com>
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UI and interaction parity
Last reviewed: 2026-10-21 · Last updated: 2026-10-24 · Change: minor (→ / ← scroll a page wider than the window before turning it) · Target: Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)
How PdfCraft's tools, panels, shortcuts and feel compare with Acrobat Pro's current interface (the
2023+ "new Acrobat": All tools pane on the left, quick-action toolbar, Home view). Behaviour is
observed clean-room (plan/acrobat/02-ui-ux.md, local-only; AGENTS.md §2); nothing from Adobe's
interface is copied. Gaps ranked in gaps.md.
UI/UX fidelity ≈ 55% ready (estimated), 30–60 h additional to the features total.
Measured
- 184 registered commands (
crates/engine/src/commands.rs), every one in the menus, the command palette and the automationcommand_runtool; menus are generated from the registry (view.menus-from-registry). - 141 automation tools (
crates/automation/src/tools.rs), so every UI action can be checked headlessly. - View area of the checklist: 62.5% breadth (52 shipped, 11 partial of 92).
No dump of Acrobat's menu tree has been diffed against the registry yet (gap 24).
Shell and navigation
| Element | Acrobat | PdfCraft | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home view (recent files, recommended tools) | yes | yes | shipped |
| All tools pane, tool sets | yes | yes, with milestone badges | shipped |
| Quick-action toolbar, customisable | yes | customizable floating/docked hotbar, adjustable size, persistent multi-select picker | partial (view.customize-quick-tools; no shortcut reordering) |
| Command search | "Search tools" | command palette (⌘K), matches translated and English labels | shipped |
| Document tabs | yes | yes, with unsaved marker | shipped |
| Multiple windows, drag a tab out | yes | no | planned |
| Split window, spreadsheet split | yes | no | planned |
| Read mode, full screen | yes | yes; full screen is one fitted page at a time on black, click/keys turn pages (#1459) | shipped; auto-advance, loop and transitions planned |
| Light, dark, system theme | yes | yes | shipped |
| Side panels: thumbnails, bookmarks, attachments, layers, comments, fields, signatures | yes | yes; panels keep their width (#704); the Pages inspector has a 50–150% thumbnail size slider and buttons (#3808) | shipped |
| Destinations, articles, model tree, Tags, Order, Content panels | yes | no | planned |
| Message bars (restricted, signed, PDF/A, forms) | yes | restricted and signed; no PDF/A view mode | partial |
Tools, handles and precision
| Behaviour | Acrobat | PdfCraft | Status / evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoom: wheel, pinch, keys, marquee, fit page/width/height/visible | yes | yes | shipped |
| Fixed zoom percentages match Acrobat's physical size | yes | differ (#739, documented in #736) | gap |
| Dynamic zoom, loupe, pan-and-zoom window | yes | no | planned |
| Hand tool, middle-button pan, autoscroll | yes | hand tool; Linux autoscroll; → / ← scroll a page wider than the window before turning it | partial |
| Text selection, column select | yes, Alt-drag columns | reading-order selection; Alt/Option-drag or Edit ▸ Column select (#740) | shipped |
| Select and move several objects at once | yes | on one page: Shift/Ctrl/⌘-click and marquee, one undo step (#844); not across pages, no group resize | partial |
| Moved comments drawn where they go while dragged | yes | yes: the comment's own pixels follow the pointer, the page shows it where it was until release; stamps and Fill & Sign marks also hide the original | shipped |
| Object handles: corners keep proportion, edges free | yes | yes for added images and signatures; Shift on a corner keeps the proportions of comments, stamps and form fields (#2199); no Alt resize from the centre | shipped |
| Shift while drawing a line | holds it to 45° steps | holds it level or plumb (a CAD drawing's ortho): new lines and arrows, each side of connected lines, polygons and clouds, and a dragged end or corner | shipped |
| Arrange, align and distribute page objects | yes | fields only | partial |
| Rulers, grids, snap to grid, guides | yes | no | planned |
| Cursor coordinates, line weights | yes | no | planned |
| Measuring snap to paths, endpoints, midpoints, intersections | yes | yes | shipped |
| Nudge selected objects with arrow keys (Shift for larger steps) | yes | yes in Edit text: a point, Shift ten points, for selected objects, images and an open paragraph's box (#1520); and in Prepare a form, for the selected field (#2608); a selected comment: a screen pixel, ⌘/Ctrl or Shift ten | shipped |
| Single-key tool accelerators (H, V, Z, …) | yes, opt-in | no | planned |
| Context menus on pages, thumbnails, comments, fields | yes | thumbnails, comments, fields | partial |
| Comment pop-ups as movable windows, connector lines | yes | inline in the panel | planned |
| Disabled commands explain why | no | yes | ahead |
Shortcuts and modifiers
| Item | Acrobat | PdfCraft | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform shortcuts for registered commands | yes | yes; ⌘ on macOS, Ctrl elsewhere (#695) | shipped; find bar still shows ⌘ on Windows (#746) |
| Keyboard shortcuts reference | yes | yes | shipped |
| Full keyboard operation of the app | yes | no | planned (a11y.keyboard-only, P0) |
| Shift-⌘-G finds previous | yes | yes (#810 fixed) | shipped |
Dialogs and preferences
| Item | Acrobat | PdfCraft | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Print dialog with preview | yes | yes | shipped |
| Document Properties (description, security, fonts, initial view, custom, advanced) | yes | all but Custom and XMP | partial |
| Field Properties (General, Appearance, Position, Options, Actions, Format, Validate, Calculate, Signed) | yes | all but Signed | partial |
| Comment properties and properties bar | yes | yes | shipped |
| Preferences | ≈ 20 pages | Interface language, Documents and view, Identity, Fill & Sign, JavaScript | partial (gap 19) |
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | minor | → / ← scroll a page wider than the window sideways before turning it, by the current page's or spread's edges in continuous view; ⌘→ / ⌘← turn at once |
| 2026-10-21 | minor | Pages inspector thumbnail sizing (#3808), separate from page and Organize zoom; view setting retained on reload and exposed through UI control. Not persisted between sessions. |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | A selected field nudges with the arrow keys in Prepare a form: a point, Shift ten points, one undo step per press (#2608) |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Full screen shows one fitted page (or spread) at a time on black with click and key paging, as Acrobat's Full Screen Mode (#379, #1459, #1353) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Column select shipped (#740, PR #765); several objects move together on one page (#844, PR #907); Shift-⌘-G goes back (#810, PR #835) |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created from the command registry, automation tools, the View area of the checklist and open UI issues |