Working with a Navigation Window
You can see the full spectrum in a small navigation window and an expansion of it in a large monitor window. When you select a region in the navigation window, it is displayed, magnified, in the monitor.
How to Create the Navigation Window and Work with it
- Choose the command View > Full + Monitor. On the Mac it appears when you hold down the option key.
- The document window becomes small (it behaves like a navigation window) and a monitor window is created (it fills most of the style). The monitor tool is selected and the cursor looks like a round sight.
- Select a region into the small window and it will be displayed inside the large one.
- It's the Monitor tool that performs this action. If the Monitor is not the current tool, you can obtain the same effect by selecting a region and pressing “m” on the keyboard.
- You can do nothing directly into the monitor. Press 5 to swap the roles between the two windows: now you can manipulate the expanded region, for example you can integrate it. Press 5 again to swap the roles back.
- You can resize both windows, if you like. The command Full + Monitor is only a shortcut to arrange the two windows in a certain way. You can get the same effect 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 a sort of illusion: actually it's the normal document window and it keeps working as usual.