Thumbnails (Docbuilder); Editing And Merging Files With Docbuilder - Canon IR C2100 Job Management Manual

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2-32 Introduction to the Command WorkStation

Thumbnails (DocBuilder)

The Command WorkStation includes a powerful DocBuilder tool that allows
you to preview and edit raster data. (For information on how to identify a
raster data job, see page 2-18.) DocBuilder consists of two thumbnail
windows and several page-manipulation commands (listed in the Page
menu).
The DocBuilder tool can be used in the following ways:
• In the Thumbnail A window, you can see thumbnails of the currently
RIPping job, as it is processed, or of any raster data job (see "Previewing
print jobs" on page 3-10).
• Using the Thumbnail A and Thumbnail B windows together, you can
merge raster data from more than one file, even if the files were printed
from different applications on different computer platforms (see the next
section and "Merging raster files with DocBuilder" on page 3-12).
DocBuilder's merge features eliminate the limitations of particular software
applications. You can merge raster pages of documents of different types,
even different computer operating systems. You can merge color pages from
graphics programs with text pages from a word processor. An outline of
DocBuilder's features follows; for more information and applications, see
"Merging raster files with DocBuilder" on page 3-12.
Editing and merging files with DocBuilder
When you select a raster data job and choose the Thumbnail A or
Thumbnail B command (from the Job menu or from the right-mouse
commands), the corresponding Thumbnail slider opens automatically,
displaying thumbnails of the file. To close the Thumbnail slider, click
anywhere in the tab along the right edge of the Thumbnail window. When
the Thumbnail window is open, the arrows in the tab point to the right,
indicating that clicking the tab retracts the slider.
With the Thumbnail A window you can see thumbnail views of any raster
data job—that is, any file that is currently RIPping, or any file that has been
RIPped and held to disk. You can also use the Thumbnail A window to edit a
raster file—you can change the sequence of pages, delete pages, duplicate
pages, and copy pages from other raster files into the Thumbnail A window.
You can save the edited raster file as a new printable document.