Viewing Documents in the Document Viewer
The document viewer can display images, text, metadata (fields, tags, links, versions, and digital signatures), annotations, and thumbnails. In addition, if the document is a PDF electronic document, the PDF portion can be viewed in the Electronic File Pane.
Any document can be viewed using the document viewer. Documents with image pages (such as scanned documents) will automatically open in the document viewer. By default, opening an electronic document will display the electronic file associated with it, while opening an empty document will display the field information associated with it (learn more about fields). However, you may override the default behavior and open any type of document in the document viewer.
The status bar of the document viewer contains additional information about the document. If the document is checked out, both the status bar and title bar will say "Checked Out." If the volume the document is stored in has checksums enabled, the status bar will note whether the checksum is valid or not.
If the document contains images pages, the status bar will also contain the current page number and the total number of pages. In addition, it contains the size of the current page. By default, the page size will display in pixels; you can double-click the size to toggle between pixels, inches, and centimeters.
Note: Because they support native page generation and their electronic file portion can be viewed in the Electronic File Pane, PDFs will automatically be opened in the document viewer. However, you can still choose to open them in their native application.
To view a document using the document viewer
- Find the document you want to view.
- Do one of the following:
- Imaged document: Double-click the document or select it and press the ENTER key.
- Electronic or empty document: If you have not changed the default behavior for opening electronic or empty documents, hold down the CTRL key while double-clicking the document or selecting it and pressing the ENTER key.