Text and image display

The ELO Web Client offers additional control elements in the viewer pane for displaying images (formats: JPG, TIFF, PNG, etc.) and text files (formats: TXT, HTML, JS, etc.) or the full text contents of documents.

Text view

The text view is used to display the full text information of documents that have been added to the full text database. You can also configure this view for documents with specific file extensions.

Text view

Please note: Binary files may result in display errors.

On the ribbon, click View > Full text. The text view appears.

The text view has a menu bar with the following functions:

Text view, functions

Increase or decrease font size: Increases or decreases the size of the displayed text.

Fixed font width: Switches the display to a non-proportional font so that all characters are displayed with the same spacing. This increases the readability, e.g. of code.

Word wrap: Lines are wrapped automatically.

Highlight: To search for a term in the full text database, enter the term in the Highlight field and click Search. Any hits are marked.

Show previous or next hit: Jumps to the last or next highlighted entry in the text.

Image view

The image view is used to preview image documents. You can also set this as the display mode for documents with specific file extensions.

Image view

Annotations (sticky notes) attached to a document are also displayed in the image view, but cannot be edited.

The image view has a menu bar with the following functions:

Image view, functions

Show annotations: You see the annotations applied to the document. Sticky notes can only be created with the ELO Java Client.

Next or previous page: The next or previous page of a multi-page document is displayed.

Zoom in or zoom out: Increases or decreases the size of the image shown.

Zoom to 100%: The image is displayed in the original size.

Fit image width to the frame: The image size fits the width of the viewer pane.

Fit image size to the frame: The image is adjusted to the height of the viewer pane so that the entire page of the document is displayed.

Rotate all pages 90 degrees: Rotates the preview 90 degrees.

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