Working with Images

•From the main window, select an item and then click the Image tab.

If the item has an associated image file, the image will appear in the Image tab. Otherwise a graphic that says No Image Available will appear.

To view certain types of image files in the Image panel, for example with DWG drawing files, you can use the Batch Processing utility to convert the image file to TIFF and then review the TIFF in the Image panel. For more information about converting items to TIFF using the Batch Process utility see: E-Printing, TIFF, and PDF Conversion.

If the item is a document that consists of multiple images, you can navigate between images by selecting thumbnails that appear in the leftmost column.

On the View menu, select: One Page, Thumbnails, or Page and Thumbnails.

•One Page - shows just the currently selected page.

•Thumbnails - shows just the thumbnails for the page images, and not the page preview.

•Page and Thumbnails - This is the default mode. It shows both the preview of the full page and thumbnails for the page images.

LAW provides several ways to navigate between and to select pages of multi-page documents:

Action	Steps
Open the Goto Page dialog	In the main window double-click the page count area of the status bar in the lower-left corner of the main window. The Goto Page dialog opens. Use this dialog to go to the First page, Last page, or a specific page.
Move between pages	•On the Page menu, select First Page, Previous Page, Next Page, or Last Page. •On the main toolbar, click one of the navigation buttons. •Right click in the thumbnails area and then select a navigation control.
Select or unselect a page	•Press and hold the CTRL key and click a thumbnail. •Click to the right of the thumbnail and then press the spacebar. •Click the full-page preview and then press the spacebar. When a page is selected, the background of selected page is black.
Select a range of pages	•Press and hold the CTRL key and click a thumbnail at one end of the range. •Press and hold the SHIFT key and click the thumbnail at the other end of the range.
Select all pages	Click in the thumbnails region and then press CTRL+A.
Unselect all pages	Press ESC.

When you use the Image Viewer, you have the following options for manipulating the way the page displays. These ways are described as follows:

Action

Steps

Zoom in.

•In the main window, on the View menu, click Zoom In.

Zoom out.

•In the main window, on the View menu, click Zoom Out.

Zoom to selection.

•Press and hold down the left mouse button and drag to select the area to zoom; release the mouse.

LAW zooms to the area defined by the rectangle. Double-click to return to the Best Fit state.

Best entire page in Viewer.

•In the main window, on the View menu, click Best Fit.

Fit page to viewer width.

•In the main window, on the View menu, click Fit to Width.

Lock or unlock the zoom across pages.

•Press CTRL+Z; or in the main window, on the View menu, click Zoom Lock.

A lock icon displays on the Image button.

•To zoom in, press CTRL+PAGE UP; to zoom out. press CTRL+PAGE DOWN.

Unlock the zoom.

•In the main window, on the View menu, click Zoom Lock to remove the check mark next to Zoom Lock.

Move the view across a zoomed image.

•Click and drag the scrollbars.

Or

•Press and hold the CTRL key and press UP ARROW, DOWN ARROW. LEFT ARROW, or RIGHT ARROW keys.

Pan Window

1.In the main window, select an image.

2.On the View menu, click Pan Window.

3.A small pan window with a black box showing the zoomed selected image opens. You can shrink or enlarge the window to view the image contents.

Scale to gray for all pages (only for viewing; cannot be saved.)

This feature can improve the readability of some text. It is for viewing only and does not alter the image in any way.

1.In the main window, select an image.

2.On the View menu, click Scale to Gray.

Invert page color on all pages (only for viewing; cannot be saved.)

1.In the main window, select an image.

2.On the View menu, click Invert.

This feature is useful when viewing documents that have shaded or colored backgrounds, making them difficult to interpret. The Invert feature reverses the colors and can help to clarify the image. This feature does not alter the image in any way; it is for viewing purposes only.

Rotate pages.

1.In the main window, on the Page menu, click Rotate Left, Rotate Right, or Rotate 180.

If no pages are selected, only the current page is rotated. If one or more pages are selected, all selected pages are rotated the specified direction.

The rotation applied to an image is not saved automatically. An unsaved rotation is evident if the main image window shows the current page as rotated but the thumbnail view shows the original orientation.

2.Save the rotation for the image, if necessary. In the main window on the File menu, click Save.

The current orientation for all pages is saved; the thumbnails and image update with the new rotation.

Rotating an image that has been endorsed by LAW may result in undesired results if the endorsement is later modified or removed. See Header/Footer Options for further information on endorsing.

1.From the main window, select an item.

2.Click the Tools menu.

If the item has an image file then Launch Viewer will be enabled.

3.Click Launch Viewer.

This feature opens the image in whichever image viewer is registered in the operating system as the default for the specified image type.

If the image is modified in the external viewing application, you will need to switch documents in LAW before you save changes; otherwise, a locking violation will occur.