The solution that I have implemented in this new beta release of Podofyllin is to open an ancillary PDF view in another window. For Podofyllin, that wouldn’t work, as it already has four views side-by-side, and splitting the main PDF view further would become unmanageable, forcing you to make that window very large when you wanted to use the feature. One solution is to support split views in a single document window. This is even true with tabs, although browsers like Safari are quite content to open the same webpage in different windows or tabs. Test this in Preview, or previous versions of Podofyllin, for instance, and when you try opening the same file, the app just thrusts the existing document window at you. There appears to be a curious limitation in macOS AppKit which makes it difficult for a user to see any open document in two or more windows at once: AppKit won’t let you open a document more than once at a time. When you’re researching, you may need to refer to references, endnotes, and other sections while you are reading the main body. It’s not uncommon to want to study more than one part of a PDF document at once.
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