Working with a Navigation Window
You can view the full spectrum in a compact navigation window while examining an enlarged region in a larger monitor window. Selecting a region in the navigation window immediately displays it, magnified, in the monitor window.
How to Create and Use a Navigation Window
- Choose the command View > Full + Monitor. On the Mac, this command appears when you hold down the option key.
- The document window becomes small and behaves like a navigation window, while a monitor window is created and fills most of the screen. The monitor tool is selected automatically, and the cursor appears as a circular target.
- Select a region in the small window and it will be displayed, enlarged, in the large one.
- The tool that performs this action is the monitor. If the Monitor is not the current tool, you can achieve the same effect by selecting a region and pressing “m” on the keyboard.
- You cannot work directly in the monitor window. Press 5 to swap the roles of the two windows; the enlarged region then becomes active and can be manipulated normally, for example for integration. Press 5 again to restore the original roles.
- You can resize both windows if you like. The command Full + Monitor is simply a shortcut that arranges the two windows automatically. The same result can be obtained with the generic command Tools > Monitor, which does not resize the main window.
- To return to normal, close the monitor window and resize the navigation window.
The navigation window is not a special object: it is the normal document window displayed in a reduced size, and it continues to work as usual.