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Images

Loading and displaying

This section describes how to load and view an image and its associated data file.

Loading

Open the file selection menu. This can be done either by selecting the File>Menu option from the menu bar at the top of GEDI's main window, or by pressing Alt+O. If you want to load an individual file, you can select that file and press the Load File/Directory button or double-click on the filename. To load an image directory, you should select the directory and press the Load File/Directory button. If the directory you selected contains no images that can be opened with GEDI, you will see "No Selection" appear in the file list on the left of the editing window.

Displaying

GEDI allows you to either view just the image, view/edit the image with the XML data for it, or view/edit the data on a white background. To open the image together with the XML data, click on the name of the image. To open the image by itself, click on the check mark in the "Image" column. To view the XML data by itself, click on the check mark in the "Xml" column. If instead of a check mark, a red cross appears in that column, this means that the image does not have any XML data associated with it, in which case you can open a blank page. If the image and/or data you are viewing is for a multipage tiff, you can navigate the pages of the tiff either by selecting the page number from the dropdown menu above the table with the filenames, or by using the 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' buttons. The arrow keys can be used to change to next or previous file or to a different viewing mode.

Zooming

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Page Attributes

Every page in GEDI has page attributes. Page attributes are fields that contain information about particular pages. Each page edited in GEDI has its own values for the page attributes defined for that image directory. By entering the values of the page attributes, information about the page as a whole can be entered, such as whether it is a handwritten or a typed document. Page attributes can be configured in the Page tab of the Preferences menu.

Setting the Value of a Page Attribute

To set a value for the attribute of a particular page, first open the page. The Page tab of the lowest table in the left panel will display the attribute names and values for the displayed page. Select the value you wish to change by clicking on the cell displaying it. You can then type in a new value for the attribute, or select the value from a drop down menu if a list of possible values is defined for that attribute. Not all attributes listed in the table can be changed directly in the table.

Using Hotkeys to Set a Value for an Attribute

To set a value for the attribute of a particular zone, first open the page, then press the hotkey combination for the value and attribute that you wish to set. Hotkey combinations can be set in the Page tab of the Preferences menu, and are always Alt + a number.