Three Suggestions To Improve Pdf Viewer Plus : Add features to Jump To Page, Highlight Texts and Night Mode reading

[jubreal]

Introduction

Pdf Viewer Plus is an open source application that enables users to view and read Pdf documents smoothly, It is really easy to use as it contains a simple user interface.

Components

After using the application for a while now, I found out some features which are essential and can improve user experience are missing, this prompted me to put together a list of such features, but on checking the issues page on Github, some of it have been reported but few ones are still missing. So, I'm suggesting the following missing features:

• Go To / Jump To Page feature
• Ability to Highlight Texts while reading
• Night Mode Reading ability

Proposal Description

Pdf Viewer Plus is a very user-friendly pdf reader application as earlier mentioned. I like using it to read my pdf files because of the smoothness while rendering the files. But I seriously miss the ability of the application to do the following which is serving as a limitation for fellow and prospective users likewise:

• Go To /Jump To Page Feature: While making use of the app to read a pdf file of a very large page reaching over 1000 pages which I could not complete at a go and tried resuming the reading, I had to painstakingly flip through the over 500 pages of texts that have already been read by me. This really gave me a lot of stress and consumed a lot of my time. If users are provided this feature, this will save them the stress and time to quickly reach their preferred page.

• Ability to Highlight Texts while reading: This second feature is also very important, because, with the "Highlight" feature, users will be able to quickly highlight a sentence or terms that caught their interest for further research or even shared with people and friends either through social media or text messages. While I was reading with the aid of the app, I encounter some interesting terms I wanted to share with my colleagues instantly, I tried highlighting and copying the particular texts but to surprisingly to no avail. This is not good enough, the app already has the ability to share the whole pdf file from the app, it will be better if the particular text sharing can also be incorporated into the app.

• Night Mode Reading ability: This feature though may look simple, I can assure you it is of great use and importance especially in an app that has to do with the eyes because people tend to use this app at any time of the day or night. And most people prefer a not too bright reading background especially in the night time as this strains the eyes a whole lot. I, for instance, do not like reading under a bright display as it affects my eyes and gives me a headache if I do it for long. So, I believe the option to choose Day / Night Reading mode by the users should be made available. This will really help improve the app and make it more endearing to users.

Mockups / Examples

Below are pictorial illustrations of how the features I recommend can be implemented by the Developer.

This is how the app currently looks like without the features

This is an image showing how the Go To Page feature can be added

This is an image showing the app with the highlight feature

The image below is showing how the app with the proposed Night Mode reading feature

This is an image showing all the proposed features present in the app

Benefits

The benefits of the features suggested above are as follows:

• Go To /Jump To Page enables the user to easily reach and access their preferred page without stress and time wastage. It will greatly improve the user-friendliness of the app and bring in more users.

• Ability to Highlight Texts while reading will enable users to easily and quickly share texts from the file being read or copy for research purposes. And also enables users to easily quote texts directly from the file being read whenever the need arises.

• Night Mode Reading ability will enable users to read more comfortably and as long as they want without excessively straining their eyes. It will allow for the app to be enjoyed more by users and thereby increasing the app usage and popularity.

Conclusion

Implementing the aforementioned features may demand the developers would have to make major adjustments to the Pdf Reader Plus application. But this is really needed as it will on the long run benefit both the developers and the users.

The features that I recommend are very useful for users and developers because they will improve user experience later. And this will increase the usage and popularity of the app among current and prospective users. I hope, App developer implements these features very soon.

Thank You.

[Echolon]

Nice, but better scale your pictures via: <img src="YOUR GITHUB FILE LINK" width="350">

[javacafe01]

@jubreal I have added the option for a dark pdf background following #97, but the gap between the pages are light (easy fix).