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Help: View Options and Getting Around a PDF

PDFpen is capable of viewing your documents in a number of different ways.

Page View

The default view in PDFpen is Page View. You can change to Facing Page View by clicking on the View Type toolbar itemsingle page.

Continuous Scrolling

You can set your view to scroll through pages continuously by checking the menu item View >Continuous. This setting persists across newly opened documents.

Sidebar: Thumbnail View

PDFpen displays thumbnails of all the pages in your PDF in the Sidebar. Clicking on a thumbnail navigates to that page in the Page View. The Sidebar button sidebar button in the tool bar can show/hide the Sidebar.

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.

Zoom In and Zoom Out

In Page View, you can zoom in and out of your page or document with the Zoom In and Zoom Out controls zoom buttons in the toolbar.

In the Sidebar, you can increase or decrease the size of the thumbnails with the slider zoom slider found at the bottom of the Sidebar.

From the View menu, there are also options for Actual Size (⌘0), which displays your document at 72 pixels per inch, and Zoom to Fit (⌥⌘0), which lets you see your entire page and fits it in your window whatever your window size.

Page Up and Page Down

To move through the document, use the Page Up and Page Down buttons updown buttons in the toolbar.

Go to A Specific Page

  1. From the menu, choose Go > Go To Page...
  2. Your cursor will be placed on the page number in the bottom left corner of the window.
  3. Enter the destination page number and press Return.

You can also simply click on the page number to enter the destination page number.

Scrollbars and Scroll Tool

Scrollbars 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 you can use the Scroll Tool scroll tool to drag the page around in the window.

View Page Numbers

In the View menu, Page Numbers is turned on by default. This option shows you the page number is a small gray box in the bottom right corner of the page and the thumbnails.

Rotate Pages

In the View menu is the ability to rotate pages: Rotate Right (clockwise) or Rotate Left (anticlockwise). You can rotate the current page, or rotate multiple pages by selecting their thumbnails in the Sidebar.

Pages Right-to-Left

This option, turned off by default, in the View menu is only active in the facing page views, and allows facing page ordering to be re-arranged for reverse-viewing such as needed in Japanese language.

 

 
 
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