Side by Side / Split Screen

Daniel Ward

• December 05, 2019 07:50

I've made a mind map - its huge .. now I want to start factoring it down and breaking all the random scatterings of ideas into structure .. 

Easiest way to do that is to create a new map .. side by side .. and drag them over one by one ..  

Except there is no side by side view in XMind 8 ...  nor can I split the screen ..  nor can I launch another instance ....

I had to export it to a web browser and then re-type the ideas into a new XMind - frustrating.

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  Thomas Wagner

  • June 29, 2020 17:43
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  Agree, this is needed, also for comparing two maps. Seems easy to solve by enabling two instandces to open at the same time... except that is currently not posisble for the user...

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  David Baril

  • March 19, 2021 17:41

  I discovered a workaround that gives you some of the functionality of a true side-by-side, with the ability to copy/paste from the "source" to the open Xmind map.  You can not copy graphic elements, and you will need to re-generate the nodes in the target map.

  Here is the technique I use:

  Open the "source" map, and print it. Select multiple pages, landscape mode, 1 page horizontal width, and as many vertical pages as needed.  Use the virtual print device "Microsoft XPS Document Writer".  Hit print, and save the output to a file. 

  The resulting .oxps file looks similar to a PDF print output, but the text fields within the print image are select-able and can be copy/pasted into an open Xmind map.  You need to re-create any new nodes in the open map, but you don't need to re-enter all the text.

  If you should output to a PDF file, most of the PDF virtual printers create a pure graphic image of the whole mind map page, and you can't copy/paste text from the graphic image easily.

  I agree .... some form of side-by-side display of two XMind maps should be available.  Toggling back and forth between multiple tabs in the existing XMind application is too tedious.

   

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  David Baril

  • March 19, 2021 17:43

  PS: You may need to add the XPS Viewer feature to your Windows installation if it is not already installed.

   

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  David Baril

  • March 19, 2021 17:48

  I did not mention ... once the xps file is created, you need to open it to display this now-static read-only image of the mind map diagram with copy/paste -able text. If the Microsoft standard XPS viewer is already installed, you just double-click on the .oxps file.

  You then open your "target" XMind diagram using the Xmind application, and you can operate side-by-side.  The mode of operation is one-way only ... from the .oxps file viewer TO -> the Xmind map diagram.

   

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