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Figure 4.10 Create PDF from clipboard image
4.3 Opening a PDF file
In PDF Editor there are several ways to open a PDF file:
Right-click the PDF file you want to read and click Open if you have set PDF
Editor as your default application or click Open with to choose PDF Editor in
the program list.
Click File > Open: when the Open dialog is popped out, select a PDF file name
and click Open.
Click Open tool on the toolbars area and select a PDF file name.
Select the PDF file from the list of recently opened PDF files: this option is only
valid if you have already used one of the other three methods to open the same
PDF file.
You can open more than one PDF files and see them at the same time. Resize the
window and position them in the window to meet your need. For example, you have
opened two PDF files, but the default window only shows the last opened one,
Click Window, you can see the currently opened files’ name.
If you want to see them at the same time, click Window > Cascade or Tile,
and then click one of the open file interfaces and drag it to any position you like.
The window’s title name will be the file’s name you are reading.
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Figure 4.11 Cascade files
Figure 4.12 Tile files
4.4 Reading a PDF document
PDF Editor provides tools that can help you read a PDF file and find your way around
a large document. Pages can be resized to make them easier to see, and you can
jump directly to a page number, step through a document page by page, or scroll
the pages as you read them.
4.4.1 Resizing pages
Due to the nature of PDF documents, pages can be resized to a high magnification
without loss of quality to the text. Vector graphics can also be enlarged without
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losing image quality, however, you may notice a slight degrading of quality when
enlarging bitmap images.
Use the page zoom tools and resize tools to resize your pages.
Figure 4.13 Page zoom tools and resize tools
From left to right, the tools are Zoom out | Zoom Level | Zoom in | Actual Size
| Fit Page | Fit Width.
The PDF Editor supports zoom resolutions from 12.5% - 500%, good enough for
you to see the perfect details on a page.
Click Zoom out on the toolbar or View > Zoom out on the menu to scale the
page in decrements of 10% each time. Or you can directly click Ctrl and – to
reduce the page size.
Click Zoom in on the toolbar or View > Zoom in on the menu to enlarge the
page in increments of 10% each time. Or you can directly click Ctrl and + to
increase the page size.
Right-click the document pane, a floating item menu appears, and then you can
select Zoom in or Zoom out.
Figure 4.14 Floating item
You can directly input the scale number in zoom level tool.
Click Actual Size or View > Actual Size, the size will be 100% of the actual
one, no matter what the size of application window. You can also click Ctrl+1.
Click Fit Page or View > Fit Page, one whole page will be displayed in the
document pane, and its scale proportion is according to the application window
size. Click Ctrl+2 can quickly restore the page size to a fit one.
Click Fit Width or View > Fit Width, the page size will be regulated to a fit
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width to the application window. Or click Ctrl+3 to get the fit width.
4.4.2 Scrolling pages
Use the navigation toolbars and continuous page mode toolbars to read the pages.
You can use the Scroll tool to drag pages up or down, left or right with your
mouse. There are three kind continuous page modes: Single Page,
Continuous and Continuous-Facing. You can select one of them on the
toolbars or click View > Single Page or Continuous or Continuous-Facing.
The tools are the following
Figure 4.15 Continuous page modes
Before you can drag the page, ensure which continuous page mode you have
selected.
You can also use keyboard shortcuts Alt+1 or Alt+2 or Alt+3 to select the
mode.
The navigation toolbar can help you quickly navigate a page at a time, jump to
the first or last page, or move to previous page or next page. You can input a
page number to straightforward read the desired page.
Figure 4.16 Navigation toolbars
Click Hand tool , directly drag the page in the document pane to the part
you want to read.
Right-click the document pane, a floating toolbar appears, click the First Page,
or Last Page, or Previous Page or Next Page to quickly turn the page.
4.4.3 Using bookmarks, comments and page thumbnails
You can also navigate the pages in a PDF document by clicking a bookmark,
comment or page thumbnail to jump directly to the referenced page.
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Figure 4.17 Navigation pane
4.5 Printing a PDF document
There are several ways to print a PDF document in PDF Editor:
Click Print button on the File toolbar, this time the whole document will be
printed out by the default printer.
Click File > Print, select a printer and set its properties, and set the print range
and number of copies, then click OK.
Click Ctrl + P, select the printer and set its properties, and print range and
number of copies, then click OK.
Right click the mouse, when a little floating toolbar appears click Print, then
select the printer and set its properties, print range and number of copies, and
click OK.
4.6 Saving a PDF file
There are several ways to save a PDF document.
To save the current PDF file:
Click the Save button on the File toolbars, or click File > Save, or use the
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+S.
To save a copy of the current PDF file:
Click File > Save As and select a new location or enter a new name.
Note: If the document hasn’t been added any comment or content, or hasn’t been
made any edit, it couldn’t be saved because only changed documents can be saved.
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4.7 Saving the PDF file to other format file
You can save the file to another PDF file or convert the PDF format file to an image
file such as BMP, WMF, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, TGA, PCX files and so on. All of
the image files saved can be selected their page range and resolution. The PDF file
can also be saved as TEXT files which page range can be set.
Click File > Save As, and select a type you want.
Figure 4.18 Save a PDF file to a TIFF file
Enter a new name and select a new path. Then click Save.
For example, save file “Introducing PDF.pdf” as a TIFF file.
Figure 4.19 Set page range and resolution
We can select part of them by setting the Page range. Since it is saved as an image
file, so its resolution can be input as we need.
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4.8 Closing a PDF file
There are several ways to close a document in PDF Editor:
Click File > Close to close the current PDF file, if you have changed the file and
haven’t save the changes yet, the application will first ask you whether to save
the change, you can click Yes then the file will cover the old one, or click No if
you don’t want to save the changes, or click Cancel to refuse to close.
Click the close button on the right of the menu bar, the application will also
ask you whether to save the changes or not if you have made.
4.9 Reverting a PDF file
PDF Editor allows users add comments or contents to the PDF document or edit the
content. PDF Editor provides reverting function to let users cancel all of the
comments or contents editing and back to the original status when the document is
opened.
Click File > Revert, then a message box will be popped out,
Figure 4.20 Revert message box
Click OK to back to the original status, or click Cancel to refuse.
4.10 Exiting PDF Editor
Click File > Exit or the window’s close button in the top left of the application
window, PDF Editor will close all of the opened files before checking that all the
changes have been saved.
4.11 Document properties
PDF Editor allows you to view some basic information of the currently opened PDF
document, including title, author, page number, security and so on.
Click File > Document Properties to view its description and security
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information.
For example, open a PDF file and read its document properties.
Figure 4.21 Document Properties—Description
The dialog box shows the PDF document’s information, including its created
date and time, modified date and time, file size, page size, number of pages,
the file’s path and so on. You can input its title, author, subject and keywords.
Figure 4.22 Document Properties—Security
The document security information can be viewed in the Document
Restriction Summary list.
4.12 Emailing
Click File > Email, then the program will link internet and email the currently
reading document. The email subject will be the name of file as a default one,
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you can also change it as your need.
4.13 Import comments
Please see 6 Working with comments.
4.14 Export comments
Please see 6 Working with comments.
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5 Working with Text
This part describes how you work with text.
5.1 Tools for working with text
The tools are Select tools in the toolbars.
Figure 5.1 Select toolbars
If you don’t have these tools, click View > Toolbar > Select.
Note: These tools can only be used in browsing status, so you must enable them
first them by clicking Hand tool .
5.2 Selecting and copying text
Use Select Text, you can select and copy a piece of text to the clipboard, and paste
it into another format file, such as word, notebook or other else. Use Snapshot
Tool to copy a piece of text or image to the clipboard, and then you can paste it into
another image file or a word file.
5.2.1 Use Select Text tool to copy text
If you want to copy parts of the PDF file,
Click Select Text button on the toolbar or click Tool > Select Text.
Move the cursor to the top left of text you want to copy, and drag the cursor to
lower right of the text, a text box will appear to show you the selected area, and
the box’s size is showed in the center of the box. When you loose your finger, a
message box pops out
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