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Help: View Options and Getting Around a PDFPDFpen lets you control how you view your documents. Page View TypesThe default view in PDFpen is Page View, where a single page is visible at a time. The other option is Facing Pages view where two pages are visible at once, like a book. Change between these views by clicking on the Sidebar item in the toolbar Continuous ScrollingScroll continuously through the pages of your document instead of paging through one or two at a time. This is also a default mode. Turn this off or on by choosing View > Continuous, or by clicking on the Sidebar menu item. This setting persists across newly opened documents. Rotate PagesGo to the View menu for the rotate page options: Rotate Right (clockwise)(Cmd+R) or Rotate Left (counter-clockwise)(Cmd+Shft+R). You can rotate the current page, or rotate multiple pages by selecting their thumbnails in the Sidebar. View Page NumbersView > Page Numbers is turned on by default. Notice a small gray box with a page number in the bottom right corner of each page and thumbnail. Also, view the current page, and total pages, next to the document title at the top of the window. Zoom In and Zoom OutIn Page View, you can zoom in and out of your page or document with the Zoom In and Zoom Out controls You can also zoom in or out using the Scale item in the toolbar. Click into the Scale field to change the percent manually. If the Scale item is not in your toolbar, add it by Customizing your Toolbar. In the Sidebar, you can increase or decrease the size of the thumbnails with the slider From the View menu there are also options for:
Page Up and Page Down To move to the next page of the document, use the Up / Down buttons
Go to A Specific Page
Manually input a destination page number using the Page item to the toolbar. Navigate to a page by typing in a page number. If this item is not in your toolbar, add it by Customizing your Toolbar. ScrollbarsScrollbars appear when the document view cannot fit the contents of the page in the current window. You can click and drag the scrollbars to go to the part of the document that is hidden, or use gestures on your track pad. Hand Tool
While zoomed in, use the Hand Tool to pan around your document. Zoom in by pressing the Option key, zoom out with Command+Option. SidebarSwitch between Sidebar views using the Sidebar button Thumbnail View PDFpen displays thumbnails of all the pages in your PDF in the Sidebar. Click on a thumbnail to navigate to a page. The thumbnail size can be enlarged or reduced using the slider control at the bottom of the Sidebar. The Sidebar width can be increased by dragging the border between the Sidebar and the Page View. Annotations View View a list of all the annotations you've made to the document, including objects such as highlights, notes, and comments. Adjust which annotations you see using the Show menu at the bottom of the Sidebar. Click on one of the listed annotations to navigate to its location. Double-click on it to both navigate to it and select the annotation. Shift-click to select multiple annotations in the Sidebar and delete them. Copy the text of annotations such as highlighted text, comments, and notes. To do so:
If you want a list of all annotations, print out the list via File > Print > Append Annotations Summary. Table of Contents View Use the Sidebar button Click on one of the Table of Contents entries to navigate to it, a blue indicator helps you determine where you are in the Table of Contents. Copy the text of an entry:
Right-click, or Control-click, to access the context menu and navigate the Table of Contents more quickly. SearchClick on Find Pages Right-to-LeftView > Pages Right-to-Left is turned off by default. It is only active in the Facing Pages view, and allows facing page ordering to be re-arranged for reverse-viewing such as needed in Japanese language. GridTo help you align objects on a page go to Arrange > Show Grid or Arrange > Snap to Grid. Set the spacing of the grid in General Preferences. RulerFor a measurement guide show a ruler along the top of the Page view area by choosing Format > Text > Show Ruler (Cmd+Ctrl+R). MeasurementsTo measure the distance between two objects on the page, click the Measurements tool If your drawing already has units built in, such as a drawing generated from an architectural program, then those units will be shown using the measurements tool. Gather Documents in a Single Tabbed WindowPDFpen supports viewing multiple documents in a single tabbed window as introduced in macOS Sierra. Combine several open windows using Window > Merge All Windows. |
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