Sharp R2.7 manual Working within a Folder

Working within a Folder

On the Folder Window, click on the desired folder. The documents contained in the folder are displayed in the work area. Each of your documents appears as a thumbnail image, showing the file’s name and type. Note that it takes longer to generate thumbnails the first time a folder is selected. If you click a thumbnail while this process is happening, the generation process stops and you can start using a file. However, the remaining thumbnails are left gray.

The Thumbnails view shows each file as a thumbnail of the actual file.

Viewing Files as Thumbnails

To page through a multi-page document, click on the document to select it, and then click on the arrows on either side of the thumbnail. Or, use the Next Page or Previous Page options in the View menu. You can see up to the first 20 pages of the document as thumbnails. When you move to the second page of a multi-page document, Sharpdesk will “look ahead” up to 20 pages to be ready for the next page request. The caption of the thumbnail contains the current page number and the total page count of the document (up to 20 pages. If there are more than 20 pages, the total page count will be represented as “20+”.) When you get to the 20th page of a multi-page document, further clicks to the next page will be ignored. You can page back to the front of the document using the left arrow or the Previous Page option on the View menu.

The work area is automatically arranged according to the selected option from the Arrange toolbar button. You can arrange thumbnails by Name, Date, Size (of the image file), or Type. Whenever new documents are added to the work area, the thumbnails will be rearranged according to the current setting of the Arrange option, with the new document occupying the appropriate place.

If the document cannot be rendered as a thumbnail, it will be shown in the work area in the following manner:

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