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3. Onscreen Fundamentals

3.1 The KGhostview window

In this section is desribed what you see in the main KGhostview window. The next section describes a window's graphical elements. The subsequent section goes into more detail on button actions.

You can open multiple KGhostview windows to view multiple documents. The window titlebar shows you the name of the document in that window. The tools and text fields that help you to navigate a document may be hidden in order to give more space on the screen to the content area.

3.2 Window Summary

Window title bar

The name of a docuement is displayed in the window title bar.

Page display

The content area displays a page of the current document. If the page is too large to fit inside the window, scroll bars are automatically added to the sides of the display.

Toolbar buttons

Toolbar buttons activate the KGhostview features you'll most commonly use. Click on the buttons to move through the document, to change the view and to mark and print pages. You can choose to have the toolbar on any side of the contents area. Click with the right mouse button on the toolbar handle to select the position you want. You can also hide the toolbar from the options menu.

Status bar

The status bar has four fields showing the current page, magnification factor, orientation and file name of the document. You can choose to hide the status bar from the options menu.

3.3 Toolbar

Back

Moves one page back in the document.

Forward

Moves one page forward in the document.

Go to page

Lets you choose which page to display.

View control

Lets you set the magnification, orientation and page size for the view of your document.

Print

Lets you print the document previewed in this KGhostview window.

Mark

Marks (Unmarks) the current page. Used to select individual pages for printing.

Go to start

Goes to start of the document.

Go to end

Goes to end of the document.

Read down

Scrolls up the current page for convenient reading of the document in chunks.


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