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Opening PDF (Portable Document Format) files in Zeta.

PDF files have become a standard for electronic documents, as they appear in the same way on the screen as when they get printed(so called wysiwyg). The PDF fileformat can contain for instance pictures and clickable bookmarks and hyperlinks for a simplified navigation and access to resources on the Internet.

PDF has become one of the best way to share documents across platforms, as readers excists on most of them. Many documents on the World Wide Web are today only published in PDF.

The first thing that appears after you have started BePDF is a dialog box that lets you navigate to the PDF file that you want to open. Depending on the size and complexity of the document, opening a PDF document can take from a few seconds to a minute!

BePDF is capable of scaling the text, so if some of the documents that you want to open have a text size that is hard to read, then simply increase/decrease the size of the document.

BePDF has made it easy for you to navigate through the documents. From the toolbar you can click next or previous page, you can also choose to jump to the beginning of the document or to the very end. From the tool bar you can also type in the page number directly, if you know what page you want to jump to. On the panel on the left side, you can scroll and click the page you would like to read. It can't get easier. If you don't where in the document the text you are interested in is located, BePDF lets you do a search for a specific string of text.

The Drag & Drop Features in BePDF

Zeta has an inbuilt OCR scanner. You can select an area of a PDF document and drag it to the desktop while pressing down the right mouse button. As you release it, a context menu appears:

You can save your selection to the desktop or to any other Tracker window, by choosing a suitable translator. The supported translators are in the time of writing simple text and the following image formats: BMP, PPM, HSI, JPEG and XPM.

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