!PDF

Contents

• Copying and licences
• Updates, bugs or problems
• Iconbar icon
• Main window
• Button bar
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Printing
• Find
• Logical page numbering
• Speed Tips
• !PDF limitations
• Dynamic areas

Updates, bugs or problems

You can get the latest version of !PDF at

http://www.pdf.iconbar.com/

If you have any problems with !PDF you can contact me at

colin@pdf.iconbar.com

If you run !PDF an Iconbar icon will appear and you can quit the program from the menu.

If !PDF is not running but you run it by double clicking on a file or it is run by another program eg a browser. It will not have an iconbar icon and the program is quit by closing it's windows.

Main window

When the pointer is over a link it changes to a hand. Clicking with select follows the link in the same window. If you click with adjust the link is loaded into a new window.

You can scroll the window contents by dragging them.

Clicking Adjust on the close icon opens the directory containing the file.

Button bar

From left to right:

Document Outline	If faded there is no Document Outline available. Clicking on the icon opens an Outline window and when it is open: Click on an entry to go to that page. Click adjust on an entry to go to that page in a new window. Click select on a boxed + to show more entries in the outline window. Click adjust on a boxed + to open all entries with a boxed + or -, at the same level, at and below the clicked on box. Click on a boxed - to hide some entries. Click adjust on a boxed - to close all entries with a boxed + or -, at the same level, at and below the clicked on box. Click on window background or outside window to close it.
History Back	Move backward through history of pages visited. eg if you follow a link selecting back will show the last page you looked at. If the last page was in a different document it reloads that document.
Document size	Shows the number of pages in the document.
Current page	Shows the current page. You can change the current page by entering the page number here. Note the page number may be different to the one shown on the page.
Previous	Click Select moves back 1 screenful. If at the top of page you move to the bottom of the previous page. Click Adjust moves to the top of the previous page. Select moves back 10 pages.
Next	Click Select moves forward 1 screenful. If at the bottom of page you move to the top of the next page. Click Adjust moves to the top of the next page. Select moves forward 10 pages.
Page slider	Browse through pages by clicking or dragging the slider

KeyBoard ShortCuts

UP	Move back 1 screenful.
UP	Move back 1 page.
UP	Move back 10 pages.
DOWN	Move forward 1 screenful.
<shift> DOWN	Move forward 1 page.
<ctrl> DOWN	Move forward 10 pages.
+	scale by 140%.
-	scale by 70%.
*	scale 100%.
Print	Show print dialogue box.
TAB	History forward.
<shift> TAB	History back.
<ctrl> F4	Find

Printing

The display options 'No text' and 'No images' affect what is printed. Printing is always done in Accurate mode. Landscape printing has no effect when printing as a pamphlet.

Single sided printing

Double sided printing

Double sided printing requires Print setup to be correctly filled in for it to work properly. (Click setup on the Print dialogue box)

If your printer reverses the order of sheets then tick 'Reverses the sheet order'. If the paper is turned over by your printer tick 'Turns the paper over'. Once set you can save these settings.

To control what pages to print you have 'all', the 'from-to' range and the 'start-end' range.

Start-End	The start-end range indicates the section of the document to be printed so if you wanted to make a pamphlet from a chapter in a document you would set 'start' to the first page in the chapter and end to the last page in the chapter. If the start end range is faded then the range defaults to the whole document.
All	Print all of the start-end range
From-To	The from-to range is used to specify the pages from the start-end range you want to reprint. Note it will print whole sheets of paper so if you specify a from-to range of 1-1 you will get both sides of the sheet printed.

Turning the paper over

When you have finished printing the first side you will be asked to turn the paper over. At this stage you can cancel the printing and print the second side at another time by selecting '2nd side' in the print dialogue box when you print it.

To turn the paper over you should ensure that the same end (short side) of the paper is fed into the printer first so for example my laser doesn't turn the paper over when it stacks the paper so I need to turn it over ensuring that the same end of the paper is fed into the printer first. My old inkjet turns the paper over so I just need to turn the paper round so that the same end is fed into the printer first.

To clarify:

'Turn the paper round' means move the end nearest you so that it is the end furthest away from you keeping the same face of the paper uppermost.

'Turn the paper over' means keeping the same end of the paper toward you turn the paper over so that the bottom face of the paper is now at the top.

The paper needs to be turned the same way whether you print as a pamphlet or just double sided.

Find

Find searches for the word entered either from the current page or from the beginning of the document. The search text is case insensitive.

Logical page numbering

When viewing a pdf file you may find that the page number on the toolbar is different to the one shown on the page. This can occur, for example, when there are contents pages which numbered separately from the main body of the document. So, if there are 16 pages in the contents the toolbar page number would show page 1, and be seen on the page as page 17. To go to page 80 you would have to type 96 into the page selector on the toolbar.

You can make the page selector use the same page number as displayed on the page by:

1. going to a numbered page of the file...i.e. NOT a contents page.
2. going to the 'Set logical page number' dialogue box (in 'Misc')
3. entering the number displayed on the rendered page.

A page which consists mainly of type 3 fonts (you can tell them because the fonts are not anti-aliased like RISC OS fonts) can be very slow to render for example the RISC OS Annual report can take over 20 seconds to render a page, set 'No Type3 fonts' and the same page can take less than 2 seconds. Luckily font substitution works for the RISC OS Annual Report but it doesn't always.

Having the pdf file on a RAM disc can speed some pages up a lot - especially if the page is filled with Type 3 fonts.

!PDF limitations

!PDF can't render fonts that are embedded in a pdf file directly, it tries to use a substitute RISC OS font. This means that sometimes the text is not rendered correctly.

!PDF doesn't support polygon path clipping so may get drawings wrong. Selecting one of the settings on the 'Display menu' may allow you to see what you want if, for example, some text has been obscured.

If the display from !PDF isn't good enough, you could save the page/document as postscript and render the postscript file with Ghostview (distributed with GhostScript).

Dynamic areas

By default PDF will look for memory in application space. This limits the maximum amount of memory available to PDF to about 28Mb. If you would like PDF to be able to use more memory you can make PDF use a Dynamic area by setting PDF$DynamicAreaSize as follows:

To use application space.

     Unset PDF$DynamicAreaSize 
   or  
     Set PDF$DynamicAreaSize 0

To specify how much memory PDF can use.

     Set PDF$DynamicAreaSize 64

where value, in this case 64, is in Mb. You choose the value you want.

To allow PDF to use as much memory as possible.

     Set PDF$DynamicAreaSize -1