About Item 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).

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  Change View and then select 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

To display Page thumbnails

On the Desktop ribbon (in desktop view) choose  Thumbnail,  or on the View ribbon (in Image View), choose Page Thumbnails in the View Options group.

To save Image as a thumbnail

You can also save a thumbnail image as a separate image file. Right-click a thumbnail image and select Save Thumbnail. Browse for folder and choose one of the following file formats:

The thumbnail file is renamed to the following file naming convention: "Thumbnail of page (x) of (thumbnail file name)".