Preview

The Preview panel is one of the panels that appears on the left side of the Convert Assistant.

preview icon

Click the Preview tool to display this panel. It displays the current page of the document selected in the file list.

Page information icons

The icon in the top-right corner of the Preview panel gives page information:

 

Icon

Description

image-only icon

This page is image-only. No text layer was detected, or password protection prohibits access to the text layer. The program can generate editable text from this page, but must use its built-in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for this.

page with text layer icon

A text layer was detected for this page. It can be converted to editable text.

Navigation tools

Use the Navigation tools under the Preview window to view desired pages of a source file to be converted or move among documents in the file list. From left to right: Go to first page of previous document; go to first page of current file; go to its previous page; go to a specified page; go to next page; go to last page and go to first page of next document in the list.

Page range

The Pages edit box lets you define a page range to be converted. By default all pages are converted. Use a hyphen and commas to separate instructions in the edit box, as for specifying pages to be printed.

 

Example

Pages to be converted

2

Page 2 only

3-7

Pages 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7

-5

Pages 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

11-

All pages from 11 to end of file

20-22, 15-18, - 3  

Pages 1, 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22

 

The buttons beside the Pages edit box serve also for specifying a page range.

 

Buttons

Button Name

Results

  in-range icon   out-of-range icon

In-Range / Out-of-Range toggle

Exclude / include the currently displayed page for conversion. A tooltip shows what will happen if you click the button. When the button is clicked, it changes state.

 all-in-range icon

All-in-Range

Include all the pages of a selected file into the pages to be converted.

 

Note

When you perform a one-click conversion without calling Convert Assistant, all pages in the source file are converted.

Tip

zoom cursor

Double-click with the zoom  cursor in the Preview panel to see an enlarged picture of the current page in a separate window. Click the Close button or press Esc to return to the original size.