Viewer features and operations
After the file opens, you can use your mouse scroll button to Zoom in and Zoom out of the document. Also, you can move your cursor at any position of the document and then use the scroll button to Zoom in and Zoom out that particular position of the document. Again, you can click on any position of the document and then drag the document around in a 360o format. Also, you can view the document in full screen and you can go to any page and then directly move to the first page of the document (if the document is multi-page).
Also, you can download & print the document with or without markups/annotations/hyperlinks/PINs from the Viewer.
View option descriptions
Viewing Options Bar screenshot (appears on the top left-hand side of the Viewer screen):
Icon Description:
Icon Name | Description |
Zoom in | Click to enlarge the document view by zooming in. This feature provides the option of a closer view of the document page. There are 5 levels of zoom penetration. The zoom level can also be increased by using the mouse scrolling button. |
Zoom out | Click to reduce the document view by zooming out. This feature provides the option of a far view of the document page. |
Go to home | Click to view the image in its original size. |
View full screen | Click to fit the document screen in accordance with the size of the browser window i.e. view the image in full screen. Again, click the same button in the form of to move out of the full screen view. |
Viewer – full screen
The new full screen functionality allows the user to view files in full screen mode on the SKYSITE Archives Viewer.
The process of viewing the file in full screen is described below:
- Access SKYSITE Archives, enter any existing collection and then click on any file name on the Collection list screen to open the file in the application Viewer.
Screenshot displaying the file as viewed through the application Viewer:
- Click on the [View Full screen] button present on the left navigation bar [highlighted by the red rectangle in the screenshot above] to view the file in full screen mode.
Screenshot displaying the file in full screen mode
In full screen mode, the top portion of the browser present at the top of the screen (address bar & tab of the browser) and the task bar of the local system present at the lower portion of the screen, disappears. Only the top portion of the Viewer application displaying the document tab remains in display.
The benefit of the full screen mode is that user can view the document in larger view as well as perform all normal operations on the document like drawing & saving markups, drawing & saving annotations, accessing saved markups, annotations, PINs & hyperlinks, downloading document, navigating to one page of the document to the other etc. User can zoom in & out of the document and drag the document across the canvas like in normal screen mode.
- Click on the [Exit Full screen] button [highlighted with red rectangle in screenshot above] or press [Esc] button on the computer keyboard to depart from full screen mode and get back to normal screen mode.
Other Operational Details
- Clicking the [More details] button present at the top right-hand corner of the screen opens up a drop-down from where you can Download the document and Print the document.
This is drop-down is shown in the screenshot below,
Download document
You can download a document without markup, with visible markup or with all markups drawn on any page of the document (saved & visible both).
- Click on [Download] button on the drop-down and the following screen (shown below) appears,
- Click on [Only drawing] link to download the document in PDF format without any saved or visible markups drawn on the document.
- Click on [Visible markups] link to download the document in PDF format with the visible markups currently on display over the Viewer screen.
- Click on [All markups] link to download the document in PDF format with all markups drawn & saved on any page of the document.
Print document
You can send the document directly to a printer connected with your local system (the computer through which you are accessing the SKYSITE Archives application). You can print a document without markup, with visible markup or with all markups drawn on any page of the document (saved & visible both).
- Click on [Print] button on the drop-down and the following screen (shown below) appears,
- Click on [Only drawing] link to print the document in PDF format without any saved or visible markups drawn on the document or,
- Click on [Visible markups] link to print the document in PDF format with the visible markups currently displayed on the Viewer screen or,
- Click on [All markups] link to print the document in PDF format with all markups drawn & saved on any page of the document.
After selecting the type you want to print, the Print screen appears. On that screen click on the [Print] button to send the document for printing to the associated printer
View all option
You will be able to see all markups/annotations/hyperlinks/PINs drawn & saved on the document after clicking the [View all] button.
Screenshot below displays the [View all] button [highlighted in the screenshot below] on the Viewer screen:
- Click the [View all] button to view all the markups/annotations/hyperlinks drawn & saved on the document. This is shown below,
After all the saved markups/annotations/hyperlinks/PINs are displayed on the document, the [View all] button gets converted to [Hide all] button [highlighted in the screenshot above].
- Click the [Hide all] button to hide all the visible & saved markups/annotations/hyperlinks/PINs.
Multi-page document navigation
You can move from any page to any other page of a multi-page document directly without scrolling through the entire document. Say, you have opened a document with 10 pages and you are currently viewing the first page of the document. Through multi-page document navigation feature you can directly move from the first page to the tenth page without having to scroll through each page of the document.
Screenshot below displays the multi-page document navigation feature [highlighted in the screenshot below]:
- Click the [Next] button to open the next page of the document
- Click the [Last] button to open the last page of the document.
- Click the[Previous] button to open the previous page of the document.
- Click the[First] button to open the first page of the document.
Also, you can directly edit the page number and open that page of the document on the Viewer. For example, as shown in the above screenshot, the Viewer displays page 1 of document with total pages 3. You can change the page 1 to 3 and the application instantly opens page 3 (last page) of the document.
This is shown below,
Document navigation panel
You can open the next document in Viewer screen, previous document, first document & last document from the Document navigation panel present at the top right-hand corner of the Viewer screen. So you can navigate between documents inside a folder (open document one after the other in a single folder)
Screenshot below displays the Document navigation panel [highlighted with red rectangle]:
The next, previous document means the next & previous documents lying beside the current document (visible in Viewer) on the 'File grid view' screen (on the Collection files screen) where the current document exists. This is explained with the screenshot below,
- Click button to open the next document in the Viewer.
- Click button to open the previous document in the Viewer.
- Click button to open the first document in the Viewer.
- Click button to open the last document in the Viewer.