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The View menu contains all the commands for modifying the way DEVONthink Personal displays groups and documents.


Views

Using these commands, you switch between different layouts for main windows:


View Options

Cover Flow: When checked, DEVONthink Personal displays the contents of selected groups in Cover Flow style in the view/edit pane in the Split and Three Panes views. Use it to quickly browse visually through multiple documents. You can double-click the front-most document to open it in a separate document window or you can drag it to other areas, windows, or applications.

Widescreen: Switches Split, Three Panes, and Tag views between standard and widescreen layout.

Show/Hide Details: Switches between displaying icons only or displaying icons together with detailed information such as kind, label, size, words, creation date, and modification date. Available in all windows showing an Icon view.

Show/Hide Tags: Shows or hides the tag bar.


Sort and Columns

Sort: Sorts items in ascending or descending order by various criteria: name, kind, date added, creation/modification date, URL, path, word count, flag, label, width x height, duration, location (enclosing group hierarchy of the item), and Spotlight comment. Also, you can choose to sort items manually, Unsorted, and to ignore umlauted characters when sorting elements. DEVONthink Personal remembers sort settings for every group separately and used when the group is displayed in its own main window.

Columns: This sub-menu lists all columns available in the current view and allows you to show or hide them individually. Use these options to show exactly the information you currently need.

The State column shows the state (flagged or unflagged). Clicking the flag or the empty spot for the flag toggles the flag. Unread items are marked as read when the 'unread' state is clicked.

Both Sort and Columns support a range of meta data fields next to DEVONthink Personal's own data fields.


Expand and Collapse

Expand and collapse all groups at once.


Zoom, Full Screen, PDF Display

Actual Size: For PDFs, images, and text documents, as well as QuickTime movies (when opened in a separate document window), you can zoom the display by any zoom factor you want:

  • Actual Size: Displays the document at its actual size, calculated using the resolution of the screen and the resolution information of the image or PDF.
  • All Pixels: Displays the document at a 1:1 ratio so that one pixel of the image equals one pixel on the screen (PDFs and images only).
  • Zoom In/Out: Zooms in or out of the document.
  • Zoom to Fit: Displays the document so that it exactly fits either the height or the width of the window/preview pane (PDFs and images only).
  • Zoom to Width: Displays the document to that its width fits the width of the window or view/edit pane (PDFs and images only).

Full Screen: Displays the current document or web page in full screen. To return to the normal view, press Command-F8 or the Escape key. Use the full screen mode to work on document without getting distracted by other windows. You can define the width of the full screen view as well as plain text font, background color, and text color in the preferences, Editing tab.

PDF Display: This sub-menu lets you adjust the way PDF documents are displayed. You can show multi-page PDFs as single pages, facing each other (as in a magazine), and either continuously or one page/spread at a time. The Book Mode displays centered pages without facing pages; Page Breaks draws a hair line and a drop shadow around each page so that you can identify where the page ends and the background begins. Show or hide the PDF sidebar using Sidebar.


Toolbar Options

Hide/Show Toolbar: Hides or shows the toolbar of the front window.

Customize Toolbar: Lets you configure the toolbar of the front window.

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