Using Active Preview

Active Preview allows you to see each page of a document storyboard. Active Preview allows you to preview and work with each page of the document. Active Preview is accessible through the document’s Properties dialog.

Active Preview is divided into two panes:

The page selector pane appears on the left side of the viewer and contains thumbnails of each page of the document. Clicking a thumbnail in the page selector pane displays a larger, higher resolution image (JPG) of the page in the page viewer pane.

Navigation controls at the top () allow you to move to different areas of the document.

You can change the number of thumbnails that the page selector pane displays at a time using the drop down list. Use the scroll down button () in the page selector pane to move to the next group of pages. Click the scroll up button () in the page selector pane to move to the previous group of pages.

Each page of the document you select is stored in a selection history. By selecting the buttons and , you can move forward and backward through your selection history, similar to a web browser’s history.

The selection pane can be hidden if you need a larger page viewer pane, for example, when viewing landscape mode pages. Click the hide () and show ( ) icons to toggle the page selector pane on and off. When viewing a thumbnail in the page viewer pane, click the magnifier icons to zoom in () and zoom out () on the active page.

Where applicable, the storyboard viewer is the default view for storyboards.

To see Active Preview:

  1. Navigate to and select an applicable multipage document.

  2. Select View > Properties > Storyboard.

    The Properties dialog opens.

  3. If Active Preview is not active, click the Active Preview tab.

    Active Preview opens, displaying the document storyboard in the page selector pane and the page viewer pane.