Selecting an Article for Viewing

If we now click on the third article in the table view from Figure 7 in the previous section (on Searching), QST Browser will first look for a CD-ROM that contains the July 1978 issue of QST.

If QST Browser does not find the issue in the optical drive, it will pop up a dialog shown below. If you see this dialog, load the proper disc into the optical drive and then tell QST Browser to proceed (or Cancel to ignore the selection). See the section on hard drives on how you can make QST Browser first search a specific volume for an issue.

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Figure 1 - selecting an article

Once the article is read from the disk, a small preview of the first page of the article appears in the bottom right panel of the window:

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Figure 2 - Preview of article

Notice that the preview reports that there are 6 pages in the article. You can select a particular page of an article to preview by using the up/down arrows next to the page number, or by typing a page number directly into the page number field. You can also use the Next Page and Previous Page (and their keyboard shortcuts) menu items in QST Browser's Article Menu to page through the pages of an article.

The preview is only good for quickly checking and paging through an article to find if the article is what you want to view. To get a readable image, you will need to view the pages in a large window.


Full Page View

You can view an article by using the View Article button. View Article is also available as a menu selection and keyboard shortcut in the Article Menu.

View Article opens up a new window to display the page(s). Each of the viewing windows will remain open until you close them - viewing a new article will not close a previously opened article so you can concurrently have multiple articles opened in full page view. You may have to move the new window out of the way to see an older window.

Figure 3 shows a full page view window.

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Figure 3 - Page View

The article name and the issue it appeared in will appear in the title bar of the page view window.

There is a set of buttons with plus and minus symbols - these are used to magnify or reduce the page size. Like the page preview, there is a set of buttons to page through the pages in the article. In addition, you can go directly to a page by entering a number into the page number field.


List View

To the left of the QST Browser's preview pane is a list view that contains the articles listed by issues. You can also select articles from the list view. This mechanism might be more convenient to browse the articles of an issue the way you would read a magazine. However there is no search facility for the List View.

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Figure 4 - List View

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