[Publisher] Anchor Window - Feature Requests

[sulcata]

Hello! I have a couple of requests that I think would really improve the Anchor window:

• I'd really really like to be able to choose to be able to view the top-level anchors in order of page appearance rather than alphabetical. That way I can make sure that everything lines up the way that I would expect it to in a PDF bookmark sidebar before I export.
• There's currently no way to remove an Anchor from its "parent" other than by dragging it to the free space at the bottom of the panel. As someone who often has dozens of Anchors in a document, this can be really unwieldy. I would really like to be able to do something quick and easy to separate an Anchor from its parent, like right-click > Remove from Parent (while preserving the hierarchy UNDER that Anchor).
• This last one might be more of a bug fix than a feature request, but - when you add an anchor to another as a child (by dragging the child to the would-be parent), the ENTIRE hierarchy of anchors expand out. It would be great if this did not happen, or if there was an option to not make it happen. I'm not positive what the use-case is for this happening deliberately but I'm open to the idea that someone might want it!

Thank you!

[sulcata]

Thanks, Kevin. Fingers crossed!

[MikeTO]

On 3/20/2023 at 1:43 PM, sulcata said:

• I'd really really like to be able to choose to be able to view the top-level anchors in order of page appearance rather than alphabetical. That way I can make sure that everything lines up the way that I would expect it to in a PDF bookmark sidebar before I export.

Agreed

On 3/20/2023 at 1:43 PM, sulcata said:

• There's currently no way to remove an Anchor from its "parent" other than by dragging it to the free space at the bottom of the panel. As someone who often has dozens of Anchors in a document, this can be really unwieldy. I would really like to be able to do something quick and easy to separate an Anchor from its parent, like right-click > Remove from Parent (while preserving the hierarchy UNDER that Anchor).

You can also remove a child anchor from its parent by dragging it to the top of the list or to the left or right edge of the list - a drop zone bar will appear when you're able to remove it.