Viewer Window

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View window

The built-in file viewer in Magellan Explorer let you quickly and easily view your files. In addition to standard text and hex viewing it supports many popular formats. These include

·	ASCII files

·	Hex viewing of any files

·	Rich Text Format (RTF)

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GIF

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JPEG

·	TIFF (CCITT 1D, G3 and G4)

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PNG

·	Window Meta file (WMF)

·	Windows Enhanced Meta file (EMF)

·	PCX and DCX

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BMP

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DIB

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PIC

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TARGA

·	Microsoft Office documents (1)

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HTML (2)

·	PDF files through the Acrobat ActiveX control (2)

(1) Requires Microsoft Office ActiveX components and Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher

(2) Requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher

The viewer can be used as a slide show viewer by selecting multiple files and then invoke the View tool. If only one file is selected, but multiple image files are available in the folder then you can start a slide show at any time by using the Next/Previous menu items described below.

Menu items

The following menu items are available in the viewer.

File

Menu item	Item description
· Next	Show the next file in a slide show
· Previous	Show the previous file in a slide show
· Print	Prints the current file (text files only)
· Edit	Launches the editor configured in the External editors preferences with the current file as input
· Delete	Deletes the currently open file

Edit

Menu item	Item description
· Copy	Copies the selected text or image to the clipboard
· Select All	Selects all text in the file (text view only)
· Find	Finds the first occurrence of the string you are searching after (text view only)
· Find Next	Finds any occurrences after the first (text view only)

Image (image viewer only)

Menu item	Item description
· Actual Size	Zooms the image to its actual size (100%)
· Best Fit	Zooms the image to always fit entirely within the desktop resolution
· Custom Zoom	Checked if you have zoomed the image
· Rotate Clockwise	Rotates the image 90 degrees clockwise
· Rotate Counter Clockwise	Rotates the image 90 degrees counter clockwise
· Zoom In	Zooms the image by 20%
· Zoom Out	Zooms out the image by 20%
· Set as Desktop Background	Sets the current image as your desktop background/wallpaper

Tip: The image menu is also available i a context menu by right clicking on the image.

Options

Menu item	Item description
· Hex display	You can view any type of file in hex format by clicking on this item. Click once more to return.
· Word warp	Makes the viewer line break lines that are longer than what the window can display (text view only)
· DOS/OEM Charset	Views the file in a DOS compatible charset (text view only)
· Font	Customize the current (text view only)
· Save current position as default	If you have a favorite place you would like the View window to be placed you can save both the position and size by using this option.
· Remember position on exit	If this option is selected Magellan Explorer will open the View window in the position it was last time you used it.
· Automatic position	This open makes the viewer automatically use the same size as the image (as long as it is smaller than the entire screen) and place itself over the Magellan Explorer window.

Note: The Automatic position option works slightly different in preview mode. However, if you enter the Preview Mode with this option on Magellan Explorer will try to find a place on your screen, to the right or left of its window, with enough room to display the window. If there isn't enough room available on either side it will be opened so that it covers half of the Magellan Explorer window.

Note: If the Hex mode was used by the Viewer as the default format, it means that this particular format isn't supported. If this is the case Magellan Explorer will switch to view the file as a normal text file if you deselect Hex display.

Tip: Please note that you can set up the view window to behave differently for Preview Mode and the View tool (i.e., you can use, say, Automatic Position for the Preview Mode and Remember position on exit for the View tool).