New Instance For Each Opened PDF File

[itelect01]

When my application runs it creates multiple PDF files. FlexiPDF 2022 opens each PDF file in it's own instance. None of these instances know about the others, so I cannot combine them into one file. The only option seems to be saving a single file from each instance and combining them manually which is very time consuming. How do I stop FlexiPDF from starting a new instance for each file, and open them in the same session to work with them?

[SuperTech]

Thank you for your post, but currently this feature is not available. I have forwarded this improvement suggestion...

[GuernseyMan]

I must admit I was very surprised that multiple pdfs didn't open in tabs in the same instance. That almost seems like a standard feature in all the other readers/editors that I've tried.

[Woody44]

I must admit I was very surprised that multiple pdfs didn't open in tabs in the same instance. That almost seems like a standard feature in all the other readers/editors that I've tried.

The versions of Acrobat and Adobe Reader that I'm using don't open new documents in tabs. Each opens in a separate window -- and I would not want it to be any other way. I'm old-fashioned. I have never understood the current obsession with tabbed applications.

Note to SoftMaker: If you intend to add this "feature," please be certain to make it an option that users can choose or opt out of, because to some of us it is NOT a feature, it's an annoyance.

[Guuz]

Still no tabs!!!!

[SuperTech]

Yes, but I have forwarded this improvement suggestion.

[amAuser]

+1 for ability to default to opening pdfs in one window. Make that +10 at least. I'm starting to curse the app every time I have to go through the multiple windows business. I open files by doubleclicking in my file manager, or having them open automatically when a pdf is created.

Please, please, please give us the option. If I wanted to use Acrobat, I'd be using Acrobat.

[SuperTech]

This feature is already implemented in FlexiPDF 2025.

“The new version of FlexiPDF opens several documents at the same time and displays them in tabs – just like you know it from SoftMaker Office or your web browser.

This keeps you on top of your documents.”

[RMerchant]

If I am not mistaken the 'open documents in tabs' option is incomplete.

I think if one uses the "file -> open" route then they open in tabs. But insofar as I can see otherwise document open in separate instances of the program - which on a slower computer (eg my laptop) can be quite inconvenient.

Two examples of this are (one) dragging/dropping several PDF's at a time: they open in separate instances. (two) extracting bits of a file and saving as a pdf causes the saved pdf to open in a separate instance. In both of these cases for me tabbed documents would be much more useful.

I'd like to send this back to the development team for further development.

Thanks.

[SuperTech]

Have you tried that in FlexiPDF 2025?