About Item Thumbnails and Page Thumbnails

A thumbnail is a miniature graphic of an image or a document. There are two kinds of thumbnails: Item and Page thumbnails.

Item thumbnails

Item thumbnails allow you to visually organize both your image and text files (e.g.  JPEG, TIFF, PDF, HTML, Word or Excel files) on the PaperPort desktop. Item thumbnails are often referred to as desktop thumbnails.

Each item is represented by one thumbnail. In multi-page image items, you can move through the thumbnails for each page. You can quickly reposition and rotate items, and easily combine individual items into multi-page items. You can combine all flavors of PDF and image files into PDF file(s).
 

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Note

Text type files (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel) can only be combined into a PDF in PaperPort Professional if their native applications are installed on your computer and they support printing from their shortcut menus in Windows Explorer.

Before you can work with an item, you must first select its thumbnail on the PaperPort desktop. A red line appears around an item to indicate that it is selected.

To display Item thumbnails

On the Desktop ribbon, click the arrow next to PaperPort views About Item Thumbnails and Page Thumbnails Change View and then select PaperPort maintoolbar view thumbnails About Item Thumbnails and Page Thumbnails Thumbnails.

Page thumbnails

You can use Page thumbnails for image items and PDF files, both on the PaperPort desktop and in the ImageViewer.

With the help of Page thumbnails you can

  • simultaneously view thumbnails for a group of pages in multi-page image items or PDF files,

  • navigate conveniently and effectively through these items and

  • carry out the following page-thumbnail operations: reordering, inserting, or deleting pages and appending new pages. These operations are only available for PDF files (both on the PaperPort desktop and in ImageViewer) and MAX files (on desktop only).

To display Page thumbnails

On the Desktop ribbon (in desktop view) choose PaperPort thumbnailview About Item Thumbnails and Page Thumbnails Thumbnail,  or on the View ribbon (in Image View), choose PaperPort page thumbnails About Item Thumbnails and Page Thumbnails Page Thumbnails in the View Options group.

About Item Thumbnails and Page Thumbnails