Menu and toolbars

IMiS client has almost all available commands listed in the menu. The most common ones are available through several toolbars. Toolbars, except for annotation toolbar, can be moved around. You can also hide selected toolbar in the toolbars popup menu (see Popup menus for more details). You can set the default view state of IMiS client menu on the General category of the Preferences (see General category for more details). This section describes all IMiS client menu commands.

File menu consists of standard windows commands in the following order:

New: create a new document
Open...: open an existing document
Save & Close : save currently opened document and close it
Save Only: save currently opened document without closing it
Close: close currently opened document
Send...: send current document by e-mail
Export as...: export current document on file system
Print...: Print currently opened document
Exit: Exit the application

Edit menu consists of the following commands:

Cut: cut page(s) or annotations to clipboard
Copy: copy region, page(s) or annotations to clipboard
Paste: paste the contents of clipboard
Delete: delete selection of page(s), region or annotations.
Select all: select all pages.
OCR...: send region, page(s) or document to OCR module* (see Optical character recognition for more details)
Edit mode: enable document edit mode. Shortcut is F2.

Note: * available only in IMiS/Scan++ and IMiS/View++ editions

Scan menu consists of the following scan related commands:

Scan page: scan a page from flatbed or ADF
Scan batch: scan several pages from ADF (automatic document feeder)
Scanner settings...: displays the scanner settings dialog (see Scanner settings for more details)
Select scanner...: displays the select scanner dialog (see Scanner selection for more details)

Note: Scan menu is a part of IMiS/Scan modules only.

Page menu consists of the following page related commands:

Previous: go to previous page in a (multipage) document
Next: go to next page in a (multipage) document
Go to...: displays select page dialog
Insert mode: select between insert or overwrite page insert mode
Information...: shows page information dialog (see Page information for more details)

View menu consists of the following view related commands:

Invert: inverts an image to its negative equivalent.
Rotate left: rotate page view left
Rotate right: rotate page view right
Orientation: select page view orientation (Vertical, 90°, 180°, 270°)
Mirror: mirror page view
Zoom in: zoom in on the page
Zoom out: zoom out on the page
Zoom to: zoom to actual size, whole page, page height or page width
Show grays: convert black and white image content into shades of gray
Apply to all: apply above view commands to all pages (does not apply to thumbnails)

Note: use of view commands does not change the document.
Note: use of rotation or mirroring in Edit mode will show you a dialog box asking you if you want to save document in rotated/mirrored state.

Tools menu consists of the following commands:

Annotation tool: select an annotation tool (see Annotations for more details)
Mouse mode: select a mouse mode (see Mouse mode for more details)
Thumbnails: show / hide document page preview panel (see Thumbnails for more details)
Thumbnail size: select a thumbnails size (see Thumbnails for more details)
Pan window: show pan window (see Pan window for more details)
Preferences...: show preferences dialog (see Preferences for more details)

Window menu consists of the following commands:

Cascade: cascade open windows
Tile horizontally: tile open windows horizontally
Tile vertically: tile open windows vertically
Close all: close all windows

Help menu consists of the following commands:

IMiS homepage: go to IMiS homepage
IMiS manual: check out IMiS manual
About...: show IMiS client about box

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