Viewing Materials

Viewing Materials

Items are displayed in the image viewer.  

When your mouse is positioned within the image viewer, a menu of buttons will appear in the top-right. Each button has a function:

  • Zoom-in
  • Zoom-out
  • Go home: this button will revert the image to how it appeared when first loaded. It will re-center and go to the default zoom level.
  • Toggle full page: this button will enter and exit fullscreen mode for the image viewer.
  • Rotate left
  • Rotate right

You can also zoom in/out by clicking your mouse or by using your mouse's scroll wheel. While you are zoomed in to an image, you can click and drag the image to move it any direction. This is especially useful when zooming in to more easily read a hand-written document, for example. 

You are able to navigate through a multi-page item in several ways. You can click thorugh the pages by using the blue arrows that appear next to the page number display, or you can enter a specific page number to go directly to that page. Another way to navigate a mutli-page or multi-item asset is to select "Browse Images" in the top-left corner: this will display thumbnail images of all pages in the item.

Some items (such as a Church Register) are divided into sections. The "Browse Sections" button will bring up the names of each section in the item. Sections are based on a table of contents for an item; another way to review this is to select the Contents tab on the right side of the screen.

The dimensions of the image viewer can be toggled between full and half width using the double arrows to the bottom right of the image viewer frame. When you click the right-facing double arrow, the image viewer will increase in size and the metadata display will be hidden; click the left-facing double arrow to return to the default layout.