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The Preview pane on the right–hand side of the screen displays a preview of the currently selected document in a document list. It also allows preview of the selected document within the Document tab of an object (depending on the type of document and whether the object has a preview pane).
Double click on the smaller image to the right in the header and the document will open, ie. a PDF will open in a PDF viewer.
Icons above the screen (only shows for certain types of documents, ie. it won't show for spreadsheet documents):
Built in File Types The previewer natively supports the following file types:
Other file types All other file types, including Word, a spreadsheet, etc. are previewed via Windows File Explorer preview plugins. This means that Windows typically needs that application to be installed in order for that file to be available in the Jim2 Document Previewer. This is not generally an issue, as many viewers (eg. Word) are freely available to download.
Maximum speed with crash protection As some documents are previewed via Windows Explorer file preview plugins, it is possible that the actual plugin (provided by a third party) may be unstable, or even crash. In order to prevent an unstable third party file previewer from crashing the main Jim2 application, the document previewer is sand-boxed, meaning it runs independently of the main Jim2 application, and will restart as required should problems occur.
As an added benefit of sand-boxing the previewer in this way, the actual loading and previewing of documents does not affect the performance of Jim2.
In Windows Task Manager there may be one or more instances of Jim2 Previewer running when the previewer is active. This is normal, and they will automatically start and terminate as required.
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