Viewing Images

As well as the integrated Viewer Pane, Opus includes a standalone (floating) image viewer. This can be used to view images, movies, documents and other formats for which a plugin exists.

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You can access the standalone viewer in several ways:

 

There are a number of options that control the appearance and behaviour of the standalone viewer. These can be found on the Viewer / Standalone Viewer page in Preferences. By default, the viewer will:

 

These options can all be changed from Preferences.

 

By default, the main mouse and keyboard controls for the standalone viewer are as follows:

 

Behaviour of the mouse wheel and mouse buttons can be changed via Preferences. For example, you can make the left mouse button advance to the next image or close the viewer if you prefer.

 

There are several other actions and hotkeys which you can find via the menu at the top of the viewer:

 

The control bar at the bottom of the viewer is the same as the one in the Viewer Pane - it contains buttons for commonly used functions.

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From left to right, the buttons are Previous File (Viewer Control - Prev.png), Next File (Viewer Control - Next.png), Rotate Left (Viewer Control - Rotate Left.png), Rotate Right (Viewer Control - Rotate Right.png), Zoom In (Viewer Control - Zoom In.png), Zoom Out (Viewer Control - Zoom Out.png), Original Size (Viewer Control - Original Size.png), Fit To Page (Viewer Control - Fit To Page.png), Grow To Page (Viewer Control - Grow To Page.png), Hex View (Viewer Control - Hex View.png), Slideshow (Viewer Control - Slideshow.png), Full Screen (Viewer Control - Fullscreen.png), Print (Viewer Control - Printer.png) and Settings (Viewer Control - Settings.png).