Image Viewer menus

You can use pop-up menus in Image Viewer. Just right-click to display menu categories. Additional options pop out to the side of each category. Short-cut keys are listed in parentheses after the command name, like this (F4).

Most menu items correspond to buttons described in other topics.

Menu Options Links to Descriptions

Example of the Image Viewer menus

View menu

The View menu settings determine how the current image and thumbnails are displayed. You can also use the Bottom toolbar to change the view settings.

View page (F2) displays the image in the window. This is the default view setting.

View thumbnails (F3) displays thumbnails only of each page in the image document.

View two pages (F4) displays two pages side by side in a multiple-page document.

View thumbnails: Left (F5) displays thumbnails of the document to the left of the image.

View thumbnails: Bottom (F6) displays thumbnails of the document below the image.

View thumbnails: Top (F7) displays thumbnails of the document above the image.

View thumbnails: Right (F8) displays thumbnails of the document to the right of the image.

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Image menu

The Image menu settings determine how the current image is sized or rotated. You can also use the Main toolbar to change the image settings.

Fit to window width (F9) resizes the image to fit the width of the window.

Fit to window height (F10) resizes the image to fit the height of the window.

Fit to window (F11) resizes the image so that all of it fits within the window in both directions.

Zoom in (+ ) increases the size of the image by 25%.

Zoom out (-) decreases the size of the image by 25%

Zoom to 100% (Z) displays the image at actual size.

Zoom to area (A) magnifies a rectangular portion of the image. Select Zoom to area to toggle the magnify area option on and off. Use the cross-hair cursor to drag a rectangle over the area you want to magnify. That section of the image is enlarged to fill the entire window. Select Zoom to area again to return to panning mode.

Magnifier (M) turns on a rectangular cursor that simulates holding a magnifier lens over a portion of the image. As you move the cursor over the image, the area under the rectangle is magnified while the rest of the image remains visible. Reselect the magnifier to close it.

Rotate clockwise (R) rotates the image to the right (clockwise).

Rotate counterclockwise (L) rotates the image to the left (counterclockwise).

Rotate 180 degrees rotates the image 180 degrees.

Mirror flips the image along the vertical axis.

Flip flips the image along the horizontal axis.

Change enhancement mode (E) cycles through five anti-aliasing modes that affect the quality of a black and white image. The enhancement mode has no effect on color images, including those that have been redisplayed in gray scale. Select Change enhancement mode repeatedly to cycle through the five modes to find which is better for your image.

Invert (I) inverts the colors in the image.

Display as grayscale displays color images as shades of gray.

Image properties opens a window to display information about the current image, including the file name, file type, and image size.

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Adjust menu

Luminance + increases the luminance of a color image.

Luminance - decreases the luminance of a color image.

Reset luminance resets the luminance to the default (mid-range).

Contrast + increases the contrast of the of a color image.

Contrast - decreases the contrast of the of a color image.

Reset contrast resets the contrast to the default (mid-range).

Brightness + increases the brightness of all images. Brightness interacts with the Enhance mode on black and white images. For example, when using Enhance mode 3, the image must be viewed at 100% or greater before the slider affects the image in the main window. You can make it lighter, but not darker. If you use the magnifier as a separate window, the brighter image will be visible. Using other enhance modes gives different results.

Brightness - decreases the brightness of all images. Brightness interacts with the Enhance mode on black and white images. For example, when using Enhance mode 3, the image must be viewed at 100% or greater before the slider affects the image in the main window. You can make it lighter, but not darker. If you use the magnifier as a separate window, the brighter image will be visible. Using other enhance modes gives different results.

Reset brightness resets the brightness to the default setting.

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Print menu

The Print menu offers several options:

NOTE  Your operating system's print dialog might show that all pages will print. However, only the selected pages actually print.

While the document is being processed for printing, the printing icon is added to the bottom toolbar, as shown in this example:

Printing icon in bottom toolbar

For more information, see Print an image.

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Page menu

The Page menu lets you quickly move from page to page in a multi-page image.

Next page (PAGE DOWN) displays the next page of the image file.

Previous page (PAGE UP) displays the previous page of the image file.

First page (HOME) displays the first page of the image file.

Last page (END) displays the last page of the image file.

Goto page (G) displays a dialog box for you to enter a specific page number. Type the page number, and then click OK.

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Selection menu

The Selection menu lets you select noncontiguous pages for printing or clears a previous selection. After selecting the desired pages, use the Print > Print selected pages command.

After printing the pages, you can clear the selection.

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Clipboard menu (Windows only)

The Clipboard menu copies a page or a selected area to the Windows clipboard.

When you select the Copy selected area to clipboard command, the cursor changes to a cross-hair for you to outline the area to copy. Click and drag to select an area. When you let go of the mouse, the area is copied for you.

By default, the Empty clipboard on close command is enabled. If you want to keep the information in the clipboard after closing the Image Viewer, select the command to disable the check box.

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Preferences menu

The Preferences menu determines thumbnail, color, and print settings.

Thumbnail - larger makes the thumbnails slightly larger.

Thumbnail - smaller makes the thumbnails slightly smaller.

Thumbnail - reset returns the thumbnails to the default size.

Change Background color and Change foreground color change the background and foreground colors for displaying black and white images. The background color you choose replaces the white background of a black and white image. The foreground color you choose replaces the black text and image lines in a black and white image. These settings are a browser setting and persist to other black and white images you open (in Image Viewer) until you change the colors. The background and foreground color settings have no effect on color images.

Print document without color (quickest) prints all images as black and white. Background and foreground color preferences do not affect printing.

Print document with color (slowest) prints the document in color if it is a color image.

Print original size preserves the original size of the image. Clear this preference to scale the image to fit the paper size.

QuickStart allows you to start Image Viewer prior to actually using it. Initializing the Image Viewer ahead of time means the start-up process, such as file and memory loading, is completed and limits the amount of time you have to wait to view an image. This feature must be set up by your site administrator. Select this menu item to activate this feature. When it is activated, the QuickStart icon appears in your system tray. See Enable Image Viewer QuickStart for more information.

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Help menu

The Help (F1) menu opens the Image Viewer documentation or provides information about the technology behind Image Viewer.