Picture Compare Menus

Following is a description of the Picture Compare commands, in addition to the common menu items. Most of these commands are available as toolbar buttons. From the Tools menu, select Customize Commands to define your own keyboard shortcuts, and hide or expose commands on the menus and toolbars.

The Session menu:

	Session Settings	Opens the Picture Compare Session Settings dialog.
	Swap Sides	Exchanges the left and right files.
	Reload Files	Reloads the displayed files.
	Recompare Files	Recompares the displayed files.
	Compare in New View Using	Opens the displayed files in a new session using a different class of file viewer.
	Compare Parent Folders in New View	Opens a new Folder Compare session based on the parent folders of the currently loaded files.

The File menu:

	Open File	Opens an existing file into the selected pane.
	Open Clipboard	Loads the Clipboard contents into the selected pane.
	Open With	Opens the selected pane's file in one of the external Open With applications.
	Explorer	Displays the Windows Explorer context menu for the file in the selected pane.

The Edit menu:

Copy

Copies selection to the Clipboard.

The Search menu:

	Next Difference Files	Opens the parent folder session's next pair of files with differences. (Child sessions only.)
	Previous Difference Files	Opens the parent folder session's previous pair of files with differences. (Child sessions only.)
	Copy File to Right and Open Next Difference	Copies the entire left-side file to the right and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
	Copy File to Left and Open Next Difference	Copies the entire right-side file to the left and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)

The View menu:

	Hide Difference Panel	Suppresses center comparison panel.
	Tolerance Mode	Detects pixel differences greater than tolerance.
	Mismatch Range Mode	Measures degree of pixel difference.
	Binary Operation Mode	Performs binary operation.
	Ignore Unimportant Differences	Treats unimportant differences as same.
	Stretch to Same Size	Forces pictures to have same height and width.
	Reset Difference Offset	Realigns top left corner of both pictures.
	Side-by-side Layout	Arranges panes side-by-side.
	Over-under Layout	Arranges panes above and below each other.
	File Info	Shows or hides file information panels at the top of panes.
	Zoom > Zoom In	Makes pictures appear to be larger.
	Zoom > Zoom Out	Makes pictures appear to be smaller.
	Zoom > AutoZoom	Makes pictures appear to fill panes.