Using The Browser
Using The Browser |
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In any of the browser modes you can use the
Zoom Slider control to change the size of the displayed assets
- see Scaling Assets in the Browser. |
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This provides a more detailed display of individual assets and allows annotations of illustrations to be viewed - see Viewing Illustration Assets. Use Ctrl (Command on Mac) + Left/Right arrows to scroll
through the assets in Single View mode. |
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Illustrations include the following asset types:
Right-click (Mac: Command-Click) on the illustration asset to pop-up a menu of actions that you can perform on the illustration:
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The complete annotation set can be copied to the clipboard independently of the illustration using Copy Annotations. These can then be pasted as a list into another document such as Microsoft Word™.
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Use the Contents Navigator on the left side of the text to jump to specific sections within the Main Text Body. If you only want to view the Main Text Body, drag the right border of the Contents Navigator to the left to collapse it. |
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Right-click (Mac: Command+Click) on the text asset to pop-up a menu of actions that you can perform on the document. Selected text can be copied to the clipboard using the Copy menu item or by pressing Ctrl+C. This can then be pasted into another document such as Microsoft Word™. Similarly, use the Copy All References menu item to copy and paste just the references into another document as a list. |
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Notes are user-created text assets created for a particular species. Use them to add your own observations or identification tips to the assets on the disk.
To create a new Notes asset, see Adding your own Notes to a Species. To view or edit an existing Notes asset, double-click on the Notes icon in the Asset Selector, or the asset itself in the browser, then click in the box and type whatever you want. |
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Media assets include the following two asset types:
Media clips normally play and loop automatically when they are displayed in the browser depending on your Preferences settings. However, if the browser is in Thumbnail View then the media clips must be started by selecting Play. Use the Media Control Panel in the assets caption bar to control the clip.
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Right-click (Mac: Command+Click) on the media asset to pop-up a menu of actions that you can perform on the media. Use the Play, Stop and Rewind menu items to control the media clip in the same way as the Media Control Panel. |
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To change the size of displayed assets, use the browser toolbar's Zoom Slider control. This will size the assets from the smallest possible images at its minimum position to the largest possible images that will fit in the browser in the current view mode at its maximum position. |
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Please note that with the browser in thumbnail mode and the scale set to maximum there will be some degradation in performance when running the DVD-ROM on low-specification machines. |
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Your current browser layout can be saved at anytime as a snapshot. Select Save Snapshot As from the file menu and enter a snapshot name. To recall your snapshot of the browser select Open Snapshot from the file menu. This is very useful if you have assembled a special browser layout, say of mixed species assets for comparison (see Mixing Assets from Different Species), and wish to save it for future reference. You can edit the title displayed in the browser before you save it by right-clicking (Mac: command-clicking) on the title (or if there is no title, in the empty space above the assets) and selecting Edit Title from the context menu that appears. |
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This provides you with information about the asset, such as its origin, copyright and technical details about its file type and format.
Individual assets can be removed from the browser page by right-clicking (Mac: Command-clicking) on the asset and selecting Remove from the asset menu. To view the asset again, re-select the species in the navigator - see Selecting a Species. |
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Right-click (Mac: Command-click) in an empty area of the asset browser and select Language from the context menu to display a list of language options as shown here. Select the desired language from the list. The title will refresh to display in the selected language. The navigator language will not be affected. See Changing the Navigator Display Language for more information on changing the language of the species selector lists. Note that if assets from more than one species are being viewed in the browser, the species title will not be displayed unless you create a specific title and save the collection as a Snapshot - see Mixing Assets from Different Species. |
Click the Thumbnail View button to view the complete asset set
of the selected species as small thumbnail style pictures in the browser.
Click the Single View button to display the currently selected
asset on its own. Alternatively double-click any asset either in the browser
or navigator to display it in single view mode.
Click the Species View button to display a composite of assets
representing the selected species. This normally includes an illustration,
a video clip, the distribution map and the Bird File text arranged as
shown. If the selected species does not have one or more of these assets,
alternative assets will be displayed.
Click the Quad View button to display a composite of four assets
for the selected species arranged as shown. This normally includes two
illustrations and two video clips. If the selected species does not have
one or more of these assets, alternative assets will be displayed.
Annotations can be toggled on and off by clicking on the Show/Hide
Annotations menu item. This may be useful if you are preparing a set
of illustrations for presentation and you do not require annotations -
see 
Click on the Larger Annotations menu item to increase the text
size of the annotations. 
Click on the Smaller Annotations menu item to decrease the text
size of the annotations.
Use the Print menu item to print the complete document to a printer.
The standard printer dialog is displayed. 
The complete document can be searched using the Find in Text feature.
This displays a standard search dialog allowing you to enter specific
words to look for in the document. 
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DVD-ROM keeps track of each of your visited pages allowing you to flick
backwards and forwards through them quickly. Click the Forward
and Back buttons in the browser toolbar to move backwards or forwards (if a particular direction is not available the appropriate button will be greyed out).
A browser page can be cleared of its contents by clicking the Clear
button in the browser toolbar. This is useful when building your own asset
collection - see 
To maximize the browser display area to the full size of the screen, click
the Full Screen button on the features toolbar or select Full
Screen from the features menu. Currently displayed assets will be
re-sized according the current zoom scale and browser view mode. To Exit
out of full screen mode press Esc or Ctrl+O (Mac: Command+O). Alternatively
right-click (Mac: Command+Click) in the browser and select Exit Full
Screen from the browser context menu.
Click the Information button in the features toolbar or asset caption
bar to display the asset information dialog. Alternatively select Information
from the Features menu or asset menu.
Click the browser's Toggle Captions button to hide or show the asset caption
bars.