Viewing TIFF Documents

TIFF documents can be viewed via the provided TIFF viewer, which provides the following functionality:

• Displaying single page and multi-page TIFFs
• Allowing the viewing of documents at 100% of size as the default. Thus, you do not have to resize each page.
• Sizing and zooming functionality
• Landscape documents are required to open up in landscape view. Thus, you do not have to rotate a landscape document.
• Rotating documents
• Comparing two documents side by side
• Viewing sheets of letter, legal size, and non-standard-sized documents
• Jumping to:
  • The first page of a document
  • The last page of a document
  • The previous page of a document
  • The next page of a document
  • A specific page of a multi-page document
• Browsing from page to page
• Panning an imaged document by grabbing the page and moving it to the desired location
• Viewing a document by more than one user concurrently

The following chapters describe the functionality of the TIFF viewer in detail:

• Working in the Thumbnails Window
• Using Bookmarks
• Extracting Pages
• Working in the Viewing Area
• Using Annotations
• Configuring the TIFF Viewer
• Saving TIFF Documents

Refer to section Tutorials and Learning Videos for tutorials and videos guiding you through the process of using the TIFF viewer and the extracting pages functionality.

Viewing Document Details

The Details pane provides the following details about the TIFF document:

• Document ID
• File size
• Author
• Creation date
• Date of last modification

Figure: Details Pane

Tutorials and Learning Videos

Refer to the following tutorial to get started with the extracting pages functionality:

• Extracting Pages Tutorial in the Tutorial section of the Stardust Online Documentation - Modeling Guide Extracting Pages Tutorial

The following videos demonstrate how to use the TIFF viewer and how to extract pages:

• TIFF Viewer Video (13 min, in WMV format) - shows how to use the TIFF viewer
• Extract Pages (8 Minutes) - demonstrates how to spawn processes with parts of a document processed in an initial process

Note that these videos were created in an earlier Stardust version than the current. Some functionality or design might have changed meanwhile.

You find more training videos for related and other topics on our Self-Learning Trainings Stardust Wiki page.