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Feature Requeest: PDF/Session Grouping #4402

Open tjdwill opened 2 months ago

tjdwill commented 2 months ago

I was directed to open an issue per #3857. First, I would like to thank the maintainer(s) and contributors for a program that is very much a staple in my day-to-day workflow. Onto the request:

 

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I frequently find myself wishing I could save the current set of open PDFs and open another previously-opened set.

Describe the solution you'd like If possible, I would like the concept of "Groups" to be implemented. For example, if I have multiple documentation files open as PDFs, I would like the ability to save the PDF states under some Foo Docs grouping.

Describe alternatives you've considered N/A

Additional context N/A

GitHubRulesOK commented 2 months ago

related to https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/2132 https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/43

there was a traditional workaround discussed several times as shown here https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/discussions/3045#discussioncomment-3941188 had to twiddle it a bit to work with one key press so it builds a file 2024-07-25-20-36-SumatraPDFSavedSession.cmd

now with no remembered file history SumatraPDF starts blank image

But if I click on the saved session cmd file SumatraPDF loads all the tabs in order from that old session

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A "GotMe" is that I altered tab oder for resave and forgot I had switched this option off which is needed on for saving a session !! image

switched it on and the new layout is remembered a few hours/days later in another session dated backup so I can rename those to whatever I want !