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Home > Getting Familiar With Pagehand

Changing the View Layout

Pagehand provides several ways to modify how your document is presented. You can:

  • show two pages at once, like a book
  • go to a specific page
  • zoom in and out
  • add a second view of your document
  • show guide lines around the layout and printable areas

Some of these options use controls in the status bar to the right of the horizontal scroll bar. The status bar contains a mode button, a section button, a page number button, and a zoom button. In the picture below, the document is displaying page 1, Section 1 as a single page at 130% zoom:

Status bar

To show one page or two pages at once:

  • 1. Click the mode button.
  • 2. Choose One Page or Left-Right.

In Left-Right mode, odd-numbered pages appear on the right, so the space to the left of page 1 is always empty.

To go to a specific section:

  • 1. Click the section button.
  • 2. Choose the desired section.

To go to a specific page:

  • 1. Click the page number button.
  • 2. Choose the desired page number.

To zoom in and out:

  • 1. Click the zoom button.
  • 2. Choose the desired zoom percentage.
  • —OR—
  • 2. To zoom so that an entire page is visible in the window, choose Full page.
  • —OR—
  • 2. To zoom so that the full width of a page is visible in the window, choose Page width.

You can also jump to the next higher or lower zoom level without using the popup menu in the status bar.

To jump to the next higher or lower zoom level:

  • From the View menu choose Zoom In or Zoom Out.
  • —OR—
  • Type command-= or command-hyphen

The Zoom item in the Window menu performs the same function as the green button in the window’s title bar: it changes the size of the window. It does not zoom the window’s contents in and out. (We think “Toggle window size” would be a better name for the menu item, but we’ve followed the Apple guidelines and used the word “Zoom.”)

To add a second view to your document:

  • From the View menu choose Over and Under to place the added view below the original view.
  • —OR—
  • From the View menu choose Side by Side to place the added view to the right of the original view.

You can resize the views by dragging the divider between them. Each view has its own scroll bars and status bar. The two views can show different parts of your document and can have different zoom levels.

To remove the added view:

  • From the View menu choose One View.

To show or hide guide lines around the layout areas:

  • From the View menu choose Layout Guides.

Guidelines are drawn around columns, headers, footers, and table cells. Guidelines do not appear when the document is printed.

To show or hide guide lines around the printable area:

  • From the View menu choose Print Guides.

Pagehand draws print guides using the printable area reported by the printer chosen in Page Setup.