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<H3><A NAME="s3">3. Fundamentals</A></H3>

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<P>This section desribes what you see in the main PostScript viewer window, the
actions of the toolbar buttons and how to use the page list.
<P>You can open multiple PostScript viewer windows to view multiple documents. The
window title bar 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. 
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<H3><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 Window summary</A>
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<DT><B>Window title bar</B><DD><P>The name of a document is displayed in the window title bar.
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<DT><B>Page display</B><DD><P>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.
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<DT><B>Tool bar</B><DD><P>Tool bar buttons activate the PostScript viewer 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.
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<DT><B>Status bar </B><DD><P>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.
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<DT><B>Page list </B><DD><P>A page list can be shown down the left side of the page display. This list
has three columns: the first may contain a flag indicating that the page
has been marked; the second shows the page shape; and the third contains
the page number. You may use this page list to navigate the document or to
select pages for printing.
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<H3><A NAME="ss3.2">3.2 Tool bar</A>
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<DT><B>Back</B><DD><P>Moves one page back in the document.
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<DT><B>Forward</B><DD><P>Moves one page forward in the document.
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<DT><B>Go to page</B><DD><P>Lets you choose which page to display.
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<DT><B>View control</B><DD><P>Lets you set the magnification, orientation and page size for the view of
your document.
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<DT><B>Print</B><DD><P>Lets you print the document previewed in this PostScript viewer window.
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<DT><B>Mark</B><DD><P>Marks (Unmarks) the current page. Used to select individual pages for
printing.
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<DT><B>Go to start</B><DD><P>Goes to start of the document.
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<DT><B>Go to end</B><DD><P>Goes to end of the document.
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<DT><B>Read down</B><DD><P>Scrolls up the current page for convenient reading
of the document in chunks.
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<H3><A NAME="ss3.3">3.3 Page list</A>
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<P>The page list is useful for navigating the document and selecting pages
for printing. To view a page simply click on the page number in the list
with the left mouse button.
<P>If you want to mark a page, click on it with the middle mouse button.
A flag will be displayed in the first column of the page list to show
that the page has been marked. You can clear or change your page
marks using the menu of choices that is activated
with the right mouse button. The choices available are
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<LI>Mark current</LI>
<LI>Mark all</LI>
<LI>Mark even</LI>
<LI>Mark odd</LI>
<LI>Toggle marks</LI>
<LI>Remove marks</LI>
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