Workspace Windows

The Book Window

To open the Book Window, you must first open the Book List Dialog to select a book to open.  To do this, click on the Publish button  on the main application toolbar, and select Books & Booklets.  This opens the Book List Dialog.  Select a book and click the View Book button to open the book in the Book window.  If there are no books in your project, click New to create a new one.  You can also access the Book Window by clicking View Book in the Edit Book Dialog.

The Book Window, when opened (see image above), shows you a preview of what your report will look like when printed. From here you can browse through it on-screen, or print it (or a range of pages from it). You can also save a copy of it as a PDF file or as a word-processor document (in Rich Text Format - a format used by many word-processors, including Microsoft Word). If you wish, you can copy individual pages to the clipboard, and paste them into other applications. Click the Edit Book button on the right side to review and change any aspect of the book's content, style or layout.

You are not constrained in any way as to what you can can do while previewing a book. The Book Window is just one more workspace window in Family Historian like any other. You can switch to any other open workspace window (click on any of the window icons in the Navigation Bar on the left side of the window) without having to close the Book Window. By double-clicking on the items shown in the "Page Records" list (in the panel on the right), you can bring up the Property Box to view their details and change them if you wish. Click the Refresh Book button on the right-hand side to refresh the book, to reflect any changes you have made since it was opened.

The Book Window has a panel with buttons down the right-hand side. These buttons provide commands which are also available from the Book menu. Which buttons you see will depend in part on your screen size.

The various commands (button and/or menu) relating to books are described below.

Zoom In	Zooms in. You can also specify that you want the window to display a page width or a full page (see the values in the dropdown list above the 'Zoom In' button).
Zoom Out	Zooms out.
Page Width	Resize the window so that the page width fits within the available space.
Whole Page	Resize the window so that a page width fits within the available space both vertically and horizontally.
Reset Zoom to 100%	Resets the zoom to 100%.
Two Pages	Check this if you wish to view 2 pages at once. Odd-numbered pages display on the right.
Rebuild Book	Rebuild the book to reflect any changes you may have made since it was opened.
Edit Book	Opens the Edit Book Dialog.
Copy Page	Copies a page to the clipboard.  By default the current page (the first visible page) is copied, but you can choose another page if preferred.
Go To Page	Enables you to jump straight to a specific page
Print	Prints the report, or some part of it that you specify. You can also print by clicking on the File > Print menu command.
Printer Setup	For changing printer options, including page size and orientation (portrait or landscape).
Save Book As	All books can be saved as a PDF file  or  word-processor document (in Rich Text Format - a format supported by most word-processors, such as Microsoft Word).
Close	Closes the Book Window.
Page Records	This lists all records for which an entry is being displayed on the current page or which are relevant in some way to the current page. You can select any item in this list, and access all the usual functionality for it (e.g. open the Property Box to view its properties or show a diagram for it in the Diagram Window). Double-click on an item in the list as a quick way of opening the Property Box for it - or select an item and click the Properties button below the list.