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This page has information about the point assist feature and the commands available in the menu and the toolbar. Select Close in the menu to close the current document and return to the document list view. For information on navigating through a document, see navigation.
While viewing a document, you can use the point assist feature to help with tapping on links and selecting text. With this feature, when you hold you finger down on an inactive area of the content portion of the read view without moving for at least a second, a circular magnified view of the area under your finger appears to help with pointing. The point assist feature has three modes, as described next.
After setting the endpoint of the selection, a context menu appears with the following commands that you can apply to the selection:
The read view menu has the following items:
Note: If there is a previous location in the jump history, the tool bar shows a left-pointing solid arrowhead. So if the tool bar does not show the left-pointing solid arrowhead, using the Back command does nothing.
Note: If there is a next location in the jump history, the tool bar shows a right-pointing solid arrowhead. So if the tool bar does not show the right-pointing solid arrowhead, using the Forward command does nothing.
By default, clicking the directional control also shows the bookmark list.
Note: If the document has no named bookmarks defined, then the Bookmarks command does nothing.
Click Add to assign the bookmark. Press the Escape key to not add the bookmark.
If you add a bookmark and it has the same name as an existing bookmark in the document, iSilo™ asks whether you want to replace the existing bookmark. Click Yes to replace the existing bookmark with the new location. Click No to not replace the existing bookmark.
Note: If the current page is page one, then the Previous page command does nothing.
Note: If the current page is the last page of the document, then the Next page command does nothing.
You can also create, rename, and delete categories. See Categories in the section on file operations in the document list view for more information about this.
If the document does not specify its encoding, you can manually specify the encoding of the document's text from the following supported encodings:
For a document that does not specify its encoding, iSilo™ assumes the windows-1252 Western European encoding. Only documents in iSilo™ 4.x document format have the ability to specify their own encoding, which would have been specified at conversion time.
If the document does specify its encoding, then this field shows Document Specified and you can not manually specify a different encoding. You can determine the document's encoding through the Document Information dialog.
Note that proper support for the display of text in the chosen encoding is necessary from the operating system or a third party program that adds such support in order for iSilo™ to display the text. Most systems support at least the windows-1252 Western European encoding.
Please note the following:
Please note the following:
The Button Name field allows you to select a key to which to assign an action from the Assignment field.
Note: On some devices, some of the above keys may not be assignable even if they are shown in the Button Name list.
Each button can be mapped to any of the following actions:
Note: When Up, Down, Left, and Right have
assigned actions of Default, they perform default scroll actions
as described in the navigation
section of this manual. So if you change the assigned action
of any of those buttons, the corresponding buttons no longer have
the default scroll behavior.
Creating a new color theme Modifying a color theme Deleting a color theme To access additional operations on each annotation,
press the Menu key. The menu has the following commands:
Press the Escape key to exit the Annotations dialog.
Annotation dialog If you want to cancel changes and exit the dialog, press the Escape
key then select Discard.
Press the Escape key, then select Save to save the changes
to the annotation and to exit the dialog.
When viewing the document, the background of the annotated text appears
in the selected annotation color.
Pressing down on any part of the annotated text shows the
comment for the annotation and the commands View/Edit and
Delete. Use View/Edit to modify any of the comment,
color, and text fields of the annotation. Use Delete
to delete the annotation with confirmation.
Only one annotation can occupy a given range of text. This means that
any portion of an existing annotation that overlaps the new annotation
range is removed from the existing annotation. If you add an
annotation that completely overlaps any existing annotation, that
existing annotation will be automatically deleted. If the new annotation
overlaps the middle of an existing annotation, the existing annotation
is automatically split into two annotations with identical comment,
color, and text fields.
To accept changes you have made and exit the Annotation Settings
dialog, press the Escape key and select Save.
To cancel any changes and exit the Annotation Settings
dialog, press the Escape key and select Discard.
Note: If there was no previous search in the document in the
current session, then the Find Again command does nothing.
While autoscrolling, you can set the autoscroll speed to any
of 20 levels. To increase the speed, touch the content area of the
screen and drag up. To decrease the speed, drag down. A drag
distance equal to one sixteenth of the height of the content area
changes the speed by one step. Each increment increases the speed
by one third.
Performing any action other than increasing or decreasing
the autoscroll speed stops autoscrolling. The easiest way
to stop autoscrolling without performing any other action
simultaneously is to click.
If you use autoscroll often while holding your device in
one hand, you may want to consider
mapping one of the hardware
buttons to the autoscroll action. Pressing such a mapped
button starts autoscrolling while pressing it again stops
autoscrolling, providing a convenient way for starting
and stopping/pausing autoscrolling.
By default, autoscroll uses smooth scrolling. See
Scroll options to change the
autoscroll mode so that it scrolls a line at a time.
Font
Use the Font options to set the specific font
to use for individual font families.
It has the following fields:
Note: If you are viewing a document in iSilo™ format,
changing the Default family font will likely not do anything since
content in such documents generally specifies some font. So to actually
effect a change in the fonts used for documents in iSilo™
format, you will want to modify one or more of the Serif, Sans Serif,
and/or Monospace family fonts, depending on which are actually used
by the document.
Color
Use the Color options to select and edit color themes.
Selecting a color theme forces all text and background colors
of the current document to those of the selected color theme.
Select No color theme to have the document display normally.
Each document can have an individual color theme setting.
To create a new color theme, follow these steps:
To modify a color theme, first select the name of the color theme
from the list, then follow these steps:
To delete a color theme, first select the name of the color theme
from the list. Next, press the Menu key and select Delete.
iSilo™ asks you to confirm that you want to delete
the selected color theme before actually doing so.
Annotations
Use Annotations on the Edit menu
to activate the Annotations dialog. This dialog lists all annotations
in the associated annotations file for the document.
The Annotation dialog provides the following three fields
for annotating text:
Annotation Settings
Use Annotation Settings on the Edit menu to activate the
Annotation Settings dialog. In the dialog, tap Select File
to choose and associate an annotations file with the document.
Tap Disassociate File to remove the association between the
document and the annotations file.
Tools menu
Find
Use Find on the Tools sub-menu to
activate the Find dialog so that you can enter the text you
want to find. The Find dialog has the following fields:
In the Find dialog, click Find to start the search or
press the Escape key to dismiss the Find dialog without starting
the search.
Find Again
Use Find Again on the Tools sub-menu to
search for the next occurrence of the previously searched text.
The search continues in the same direction as the previous search.
Autoscroll
Use Autoscroll on the Tools sub-menu to start autoscroll mode.
In autoscroll mode, the page automatically scrolls down at an
adjustable constant speed.
Full Screen
Use Full Screen on the Tools menu to activate full screen mode
so that the content display uses the entire screen. In full screen mode,
the title bar and tool bar are both hidden. In addition
to using the menu command to activate full screen mode, you can also
assign a button to activate
full screen mode.
If you are in full screen mode, you can exit the mode in one or more of the following ways:
Use About iSilo on the menu to see the iSilo™ About dialog. If the button at the bottom of the dialog says Register, click it to enter your license registration code.
Select Close on the menu to close the document and return to the document list view.
Close to
exit the current document and return to the
document list view.
Find to
activate the Find dialog so that
you can enter the text you want to find.
Find Again to
search for the next occurrence of the previously searched text.
The search continues in the same direction as the previous search.
Note: If there was no previous search in the document in the current session, then the Find Again icon does not appear in the tool bar.
Bookmarks to
display a list of the document's named bookmarks. To jump to a bookmark,
click its name in the list. If there are more bookmarks than can be displayed
at once, you can scroll through the list. Press Escape
to dismiss the list without jumping to a bookmark.
Note: If the document has no named bookmarks defined, then the Bookmarks icon does not appear in the tool bar.
Back to
go to the previous location in the
jump history.
Note: If there is no previous location in the jump history, then the Back icon does not appear in the tool bar.
Forward to
go to the next location in the jump history.
Note: If there is no next location in the jump history, then the Forward icon does not appear in the tool bar.
Home to
go to the top of the home page of the document. If a home
page was not specified when the document was converted or
if the document format does not support a home page specification,
then this results in a jump to the top of the first page
of the document.
Previous Page
to jump to the beginning of the previous page. Before actually jumping,
iSilo™ adds the current location to the
jump history.
Note: If the current page is page one, then the Previous Page icon does not appear in the tool bar.
Go To displays
either the current page number or the current location within the
page expressed as a percentage, depending on the
interface options.
Click the indicator to activate either the Go To Percentage of Page or
Go To Page dialog, depending on what the indicator currently displays.
Next Page to
jump to the beginning of the next page. Before actually jumping,
iSilo™ adds the current location to the
jump history.
Note: If the current page is the last page of the document, then the Next Page icon does not appear in the tool bar.