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&appname; Manual The Atril Document Viewer application enables you to view documents of various formats like Portable Document Format (PDF) files and PostScript files 2015 MATE Documentation Project 2005 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2004 Sun Microsystems MATE Documentation Project GNOME Documentation Project &legal; MATE Documentation Project MATE Desktop Sun GNOME Documentation Team Sun Microsystems Nickolay V. Shmyrev GNOME Documentation Project
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&appname; Manual V&manrevision; July 2015 MATE Documentation Team MATE Documentation Project &appname; Manual V1.1 2008-04-05 Niels Giesen Claude Paroz GNOME Documentation Project &appname; Manual V1.0 2005-04-06 Nickolay V. Shmyrev GNOME Documentation Project This manual describes version &appversion; of &appname; Feedback To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &appname; application or this manual, follow the directions in the MATE Feedback Page.
&appname; atril Introduction The &app; application enables you to view documents of various formats like Portable Document Format (PDF) files and PostScript files. &app; follows Freedesktop.org and MATE standards to provide integration with Desktop Environment. Getting Started To Start &appname; &app; starts when you open a document such as a PDF or PostScript file. Alternatively, you can start &app; from the command line, with the command: atril. When You Start &appname; When you start &app;, the following window is displayed.
&appname; Window Shows &appname; main window. Contains titlebar, menubar, toolbar and display area. Menubar contains File, Edit, View, Go and Help menus.
The &app; window contains the following elements: Menubar The menus on the menubar contain all of the commands that you need to work with documents in &app;. Toolbar The toolbar contains a subset of the commands that you can access from the menubar. Display area The display area displays the document. In &app;, you can perform the same action in several ways. For example, you can open a document in the following ways: UI Component Action Window Drag a file into the &app; window from another application such as a file manager. Double-click on the file name in the file manager Menubar Choose FileOpen. Shortcut keys Press CtrlO. This manual documents functionality from the menubar.
Usage To Open A Document To open a document, perform the following steps: Choose FileOpen . In the Open Document dialog, select the file you want to open. Click Open. &app; displays the name of the document in the titlebar of the window. To open another document, choose FileOpen again. &app; opens each file in a new window. If you try to open a document with format that &app; does not recognize, the application displays an error message. To Navigate Through a Document You can navigate through a file as follows: To view the next page, choose Go Next Page . To view the previous page, choose Go Previous Page . To view the first page in the document, choose Go First Page . To view the last page in the document, choose Go Last Page . To view a particular page, enter the page number or page label in the text box on the toolbar, then press Return. To Scroll a Page To display the page contents that are not currently displayed in the display area, use the following methods: Use the arrow keys or space key on the keyboard. Drag the display area by clicking with the middle mouse button somewhere in the document and then moving the mouse. For example, to scroll down the page, drag the display area upwards in the window. Use the scrollbars on the window. To Change the Page Size You can use the following methods to resize a page in the &app; display area: To increase the page size, choose View Zoom In . To decrease the page size, choose View Zoom Out . To resize a page to have the same width as the &app; display area, choose View Fit page width . To resize a page to fit within the &app; display area, choose View Best Fit . To resize the &app; window to have the same width and height as the screen, choose View Full Screen . To resize the &app; window to the original size, click on the Exit Full Screen button. To View Pages or Document Structure To view bookmarks or pages, perform the following steps: Choose View Sidebar or press F9. Use the drop-down list in the side-pane header to select whether to display document structure or pages in the side pane. Use the side-pane scrollbars to display the required item or page in the side pane. Click on an entry to navigate to that location in the document. Click on a page to navigate to that page in the document. To View the Properties of a Document To view the properties of a document, choose File Properties . The Properties dialog displays all information available To Print a Document To print a Document, choose File Print . If you cannot choose the Print menu item, the author of the document has disabled the print option for this document. To enable the print option, you must enter the master password when you open the document. See for more information about password-protected files. The Print dialog has the following tabbed sections: Job Printer Paper Job Print range Select one of the following options to determine how many pages to print: All Select this option to print all of the pages in the document. Pages From Select this option to print the selected range of pages in the document. Use the spin boxes to specify the first page and last page of the range. Printer Printer Use this drop-down list to select the printer to which you want to print the document. The Create a PDF document option is not supported in this version of &app;. Settings Use this drop-down list to select the printer settings. To configure the printer, click Configure. For example, you can enable or disable duplex printing, or schedule delayed printing, if this functionality is supported by the printer. Location Use this drop-down list to select one of the following print destinations: CUPS Print the document to a CUPS printer. If the selected printer is a CUPS printer, CUPS is the only entry in this drop-down list. lpr Print the document to a printer. File Print the document to a PostScript file. Click Save As to display a dialog where you specify the name and location of the PostScript file. Custom Use the specified command to print the document. Type the name of the command in the text box. Include all command-line arguments. State This functionality is not supported in this version of &app;. Type This functionality is not supported in this version of &app;. Comment This functionality is not supported in this version of &app;. Paper Paper size Use this drop-down list to select the size of the paper to which you want to print the document. Width Use this spin box to specify the width of the paper. Use the adjacent drop-down list to change the measurement unit. Height Use this spin box to specify the height of the paper. Feed orientation Use this drop-down list to select the orientation of the paper in the printer. Page orientation Use this drop-down list to select the page orientation. Layout Use this drop-down list to select the page layout. A preview of each layout that you select is displayed in the Preview area. Paper Tray Use this drop-down list to select the paper tray. To Copy a Document To copy a file, perform the following steps: Choose File Save a Copy . Type the new filename in the Filename text box in the Save a Copy dialog. If necessary, specify the location of the copied document. By default, copies are saved in your home directory. Click Save. To Work With Password-Protected Documents An author can use the following password levels to protect a document: User password that allows others only to read the document. Master password that allows others to perform additional actions, such as print the document. When you try to open a password-protected document, &app; displays a security dialog. Type either the user password or the master password in the Enter document password text box, then click Open Document. To Close a Document To close a document, choose File Close . If the window is the last &app; window open, the application exits. Shortcuts Below is a list of all shortcuts present in &app;: Shortcut Action CtrlO Open an existing document CtrlS Save a copy of the current document CtrlP Print document CtrlW Close window CtrlC Copy selection CtrlA Select All CtrlF / (slash) Find a word or phrase in the document CtrlG F3 Find next Ctrl+ (plus sign) + = Zoom in Ctrl- (minus sign) - Zoom out CtrlR Reload the document Page Up Go to the previous page Page Down Go to the next page Space ShiftBackspace Return Scroll forward ShiftSpace Backspace ShiftReturn Scroll backward ShiftPage Up Go a bunch of pages up ShiftPage Down Go a bunch of pages down Home Go to the first page End Go to the last page CtrlL Go to page by number or label F1 Help F5 Run document as presentation F9 Show or hide the side pane F11 Toggle fullscreen mode