read view

You use the read view for viewing a document. Other than the status bar at the top, the entire screen displays the document's content. At the bottom overlaying the content is the application bar. Tap the close icon

in the application bar to close the document and return to the document list view. Tap the ellipsis icon

in the application bar to access the menu with additional commands.

This page has information about the point assist feature, commands available in the application bar, and commands available through the menu. For information on navigating through a document, see navigation.

point assist
application bar
menu

While viewing a document, you can use the point assist feature to help with tapping on links and selecting text. With this feature, when you hold you finger down on an inactive area of the content portion of the read view without moving for at least a second, a cursor appears on the screen above your finger to help with pointing. The point assist feature has three modes, as described next.

point

When you hold you finger down without moving for at least a second, the point assist feature turns on with the cursor being a black dot. To select a link, move the dot over the link until it highlights then release your finger.

select start

When you hold your finger down on the screen without moving for at least two seconds, the point assist mode changes to the select start mode and the cursor changes to a vertical line with a blue dot in the center. Use this mode to set the starting character for a selection. Release your finger when the starting character you want to select is highlighted.

select end

After setting the first character of the selection using the just described select start mode, the point assist feature automatically switches to the select end mode when you next press down on the screen so that you can set the endpoint of the selection. In this mode, the cursor changes to a vertical line with two blue dots. Use this mode to set the ending character for a selection. Release your finger when the entire range of text you want to select is highlighted.

After setting the endpoint of the selection, a context menu appears with the following commands that you can apply to the selection:

copy: Use the copy command to copy the selected text to the clipboard. Note that if the document has been set to prevent copy to clipboard operations then this command does not appear in the menu.
annotate: Use the annotate command to get the Annotation dialog to annotate the selected text.

application bar

The application bar, which overlays the document content area along the bottom, provides access to several common commands and access to the menu.

You can hide the application bar by tapping anywhere in the document content area above the application bar. If the application bar is hidden, you can show it again by tapping anywhere along the bottom of the document content area.

The application bar provides one-tap access for the following commands:

close: Use the close command to close the document and return to the document list view.
forward: Use the forward command to navigate forward through the jump history.
bookmarks: Use the bookmarks command to access the bookmark list for jumping to or editing bookmarks.
find: Use the find command to activate the find dialog so that you can enter the text you want to find. The find dialog has the following fields:
- Text: Enter the text you want to find.
- Match case: Check the option if you want the search to be case-sensitive (e.g., match case). Uncheck it to make the search case-insensitive (e.g., ignore case).
- Entire document: Check the option to search the entire document. Uncheck it to limit the search to the current page.
- Range:: Select one of the following to specify the search direction and range:
  - down: Search forward from the current location to the end of the document or page.
  - up: Search backward from the current location to the top of the document or page.
  - top to bottom: Search forward from the top of the document to the end of the document or page.
In the find dialog, tap the ok button to start the search or tap the cancel button to dismiss the find dialog without starting the search.

Use document information in the file sub-menu to activate the DOCUMENT INFORMATION screen. The screen displays title, author, publisher, and general information about the document. However, any or all of the title, author, and publisher information may be absent if the creator of the document did not add the corresponding information to the document. The dialog always displays the general information first, which consists of the following lines of information about the current document:

File name: If the document is in either iSilo™ or Palm Doc format, this is the document's internal title. Otherwise, this is the document's file name.
Folder: The path of the folder containing the document file.
Date: The last modification date of the document.
Type: This shows whether the document is in iSilo™ 3.x/4.x format, iSilo™ 1.x/2.x format, Palm Doc format, or unknown.
Size: This shows the document's file size in kilobytes (KB).
Text encoding: This shows the encoding of the document's text or Unknown if it is not known. The encoding of a document's text determines how individual characters are represented and what characters can be represented.

Press the Back key to return to the read view.

edit

copy entire screen
copy entire page
copy entire document
options
annotations
annotation settings

The top half of the font section has the following fields:

Size: Select the desired size of displayed text. iSilo™ can interpret the size in either of two ways:
- Relative: Text displays in a size relative to the selected size, so you can select Larger to make all text relatively larger or select Smaller to make all text relatively smaller.
- Absolute: All text displays in the selected size regardless of the font sizes specified in the document.
Bold: Check the option to have all text display in bold.
Also Set As Defaults: Check the option if you also want the font size and bold settings to be the default settings given to documents you newly open in the future.

Please note the following:

Settings you make in this section only affect the current document.
If you check the Also set as defaults option, future documents that you have not yet opened also get these settings as their default font sizing settings.
Documents which you have already opened in the past retain their existing settings and are not affected even if you check the Also set as defaults option.

The bottom half of the font section has the following fields:

Serif font: The serif font applies to content that specifies a font with finishing strokes, or flared or tapered ends. Examples of such fonts are Times New Roman and Garamond.
Sans serif font: The sans serif font applies to content that specifies a font with plain endings (e.g., no finishing strokes, nor flared or tapered ends). Examples of such fonts are Arial and Tahoma.
Monospace font: The monospace font applies to content that specifies a fixed-width font (e.g., each character has the same width). An example of such a font is Courier New.
Default font: The default font applies only to documents that do not have font specifications for the content such as plain text documents, including documents in the Palm Doc format.

Note: If you are viewing a document in iSilo™ format, changing the Default family font will likely not do anything since content in such documents generally specify some font. So to actually effect a change in the fonts used for documents in iSilo™ format, you will want to modify one or more of the Serif, Sans Serif, and/or Monospace family fonts, depending on which are actually used by the document.

content

Select content in the options screen to specify content settings. It has the following fields:

Layout: Select one of the following for content layout:

enable table layout: Display tables in their intended multi-column form.
disable table layout: Display each cell of the table on a new line. This mode may make it easier to view some table content, especially for tables that were formatted for a larger screen.
disable all layout: Disable content layout. Using this option can reduce power consumption especially when viewing long pages, but results in reduced display capabilities, such as tables not being displayed in row and column format and not being able to view image or preformatted content wider than the screen. If the document is text with no special layout, then there will usually be no noticeable differences in display.

Text: Select one of the following for the display of text:

normal: Display text normally.
align right: Force text that normally aligns to the left to align to the right.

Magnification: Select the magnification factor for displaying document content.

Encoding: The encoding of a document's text determines how individual characters are represented and what characters can be represented.
If the document does not specify its encoding, you can manually specify the encoding of the document's text from the following supported encodings:
- UTF-8: Unicode
- GB2312: Simplified Chinese
- GB18030: Simplified Chinese
- Big5: Traditional Chinese
- EUC-JP: Japanese
- Shift-JIS: Japanese
- EUC-KR: Korean
- windows-1250: Central European
- windows-1251: Cyrillic
- windows-1252: Western European
- windows-1253: Greek
- windows-1254: Turkish
- windows-1255: Hebrew
- windows-1256: Arabic
- windows-1257: Baltic
- windows-1258: Vietnamese
- windows-874: Thai
- KOI8-R: Cyrillic
For a document that does not specify its encoding, iSilo™ assumes the Windows-1252 Western European encoding. Only documents in iSilo™ 4.x document format have the ability to specify their own encoding, which would have been specified at conversion time.
If the document does specify its encoding, then this field shows Specified By Document and you can not manually specify a different encoding. You can determine the document's encoding through the document information dialog.
Note that proper support for the display of text in the chosen encoding is necessary from the operating system or a third party program that adds such support in order for iSilo™ to display the text. Most systems support at least the windows-1252 Western European encoding.
Also set as defaults: Check this option if you also want the content settings to be the default settings given to documents you newly open in the future.

Please note the following:

Settings you make for the content options only affect the current document.
If you check the Also set as defaults option, future documents that you have not yet opened also get these settings as their default content option settings.
Documents which you have already opened in the past retain their existing settings and are not affected even if you check the Also set as defaults option.

scroll

Select scroll in the options dialog to change scroll behavior. It has the following fields:

Autoscroll: Select smooth to enable smooth scrolling during autoscroll. Select line at A time to have autoscroll scroll a whole line at a time.
Screen up/down behavior: These settings determine the behavior of the up and down commands on the go to bar. The possible behaviors are:
- full with text align: When performing a scroll up, if the current first line is partially displayed, the bottom of it aligns with the bottom of the screen after the scroll so that it becomes fully displayed as the last line. When performing a scroll down, if the current last line is partially displayed, the top of it aligns with the top of the screen after the scroll so that it becomes fully displayed as the first line.
- full screen: Scroll the screen by its entire height.
- 90% of screen: Scroll the screen by 90% of its height. This provides a 10% overlap of content from one screen to the next, useful for providing context from one screen to the next.
- half screen: Scroll the screen by half its height.

color

Select color in the options dialog to select and edit color themes. Selecting a color theme forces all text and background colors of the current document to those of the selected color theme. Select no color theme to have the document display normally. Each document can have an individual color theme setting.

Creating a new color theme
Tap the new icon to create a new color theme. In the color theme dialog that appears, enter into the text field a unique name for the color theme. Use the Text color and Background color fields to select the text and background colors, respectively, for the color theme.

Modifying a color theme
To modify a color theme, first select the theme's entry, then tap the edit icon . In the color theme dialog that appears, change the name in the text field if desired to a new unique name for the color theme. Use the Text color and Background color fields to change the text and background colors, respectively, for the color theme.

Deleting a color theme
To delete a color theme, first select the theme's entry, then tap the delete icon . iSilo™ asks you to confirm that you want to delete the selected color theme before actually doing so.

tap

Select tap in the Options dialog to edit the actions to perform when tapping regions of the screen while viewing a document.

The content area of the screen is dividied into 25 regions using a 5x5 evenly spaced grid. Each region except for the center region can be assigned an action to perform when that region is tapped. The center region is reserved for presenting a help view showing the actions assigned to each region.

The action to perform for a given region can be different for each of the three types of taps: single-tap, double-tap, triple-tap.

To enable the use of tap actions, check the Enable tap actions checkbox. To disable the use of tap actions, uncheck the Enable tap actions checkbox.

To assign an action to a region, first select whether you want to assign the action to a Single, Double, or Triple tap of the region. Next, tap the region to which you want to assign the action to get the Tap Action list. You can select from the following actions:

None: Assign no action.

Line Up: Scroll the content up by one line.

Line Down: Scroll the content down by one line.

Line Left: Scroll the content left by one line.

Line Right: Scroll the content right by one line.

Screen Up: Scroll the content up by one screen.

Screen Down: Scroll the content down by one screen.

Screen Left: Scroll the content left by one screen.

Screen Right: Scroll the content right by one screen.

Page Top: Scroll to the top of the current page.

Page Bottom: Scroll to the bottom of the current page.

Page Previous: Jump to the top of the previous page.

Page Next: Jump to the top of the next page.

Page First: Jump to the top of the first page.

Page Last: Jump to the top of the last page.

Home: Go to the top of the home page.

History Back: Go to the previous location in the jump history.

History Forward: Go to the next location in the jump history.

Mark Location: Mark the current location.

Mark Jump: Jump to the marked location.

Bookmarks: Displays the bookmark list so that you can select a bookmark.

Auto Scroll: Start/stop autoscroll mode.

Rotation Lock: Lock the screen orientation.
Font Smaller: Decrease the font size. This is equivalent to using the Font Options to decrease the font size.
Font Larger: Increase the font size. This is equivalent to using the Font Options to increase the font size.
Document Close: Close the document.
Scroll Bar: Show/hide the vertical slider scroll bar.
Find: Start the Find dialog for entering search text.
Find Again: Search for the next occurrence.

Notes:

For a given region, if the region has actions assigned to more than one tap type, then the action assigned for the lesser tap type is performed only if there is not a subsequent tap within a quarter of a second. For example, if a given region has the action Line Up assigned for single-tapping and the action Page Up assigned for double-tapping, the Line Up action will only be performed if there is at least a quarter second interval during which there is not another tap in the same region. If there is another tap in the same region within that quarter second interval, then the tap type will register as a double-tap and the Page Up action will be performed instead of the Line Up action.
If a given region only has an action assigned for one tap type, then that action is performed immediately as soon as the required number of taps has occurred. For example, if a given region has the Line Up action assigned to it and no action assigned to the same region for either double-tapping or triple-tapping, then as soon as a tap occurs in the region, the action is performed immediately.
You can repeat a tap action by holding down your finger on the region. For example, if you have the Line Up action assigned to a given region, when you touch down on the region and hold your finger down, the Line Up action continues to repeat until you lift your finger up from the screen.

annotations

Use annotations in the edit sub-menu to activate the ANNOTATIONS dialog. This dialog lists all annotations in the associated annotations file for the document.

To view the entire annotation text or to edit it, select the annotation entry, then tap the edit icon . to get the Annotation dialog.

To jump to the beginning of the annotated text in the document, select the annotation entry, then tap the go icon .

To delete one or more annotations, select the annotation entry, then tap the delete icon .

Press the Back key to exit the Annotations dialog.

Annotation dialog
The annotation dialog provides the following three fields for annotating text:

Comment: Use this field to enter your comment for the annotated text.

Color: The annotated text can take one of the following 16 pre-defined colors:

yellow
fuchsia
red
maroon
purple
blue
navy
aqua
teal
lime
olive
green
white
silver
gray
black
light yellow
light fuchsia
light red
light blue
light aqua
light lime

Text: This field holds the actual selected text. However, if the document text is protected from copying operations, the field will be blank. You can modify the text in this field and also use it as an additional field for commenting.

Press the Back key to save the changes to the annotation and to exit the dialog.

When viewing the document, the background of the annotated text appears in the selected annotation color. Touching on any part of the annotated text shows the comment for the annotation and the commands View/Edit and Delete. Use View/Edit to modify any of the comment, color, and text fields of the annotation. Use Delete to delete the annotation with confirmation.

Only one annotation can occupy a given range of text. This means that any portion of an existing annotation that overlaps the new annotation range is removed from the existing annotation. If you add an annotation that completely overlaps any existing annotation, that existing annotation will be automatically deleted. If the new annotation overlaps the middle of an existing annotation, the existing annotation is automatically split into two annotations with identical comment, color, and text fields.

annotation settings

Use annotation settings in the edit sub-menu to activate the annotation settings dialog. In the dialog, tap select annotations file to choose and associate an annotations file with the document. Tap disassociate annotations file to remove the association between the document and the annotations file.

To accept changes you have made and exit the Annotation Settings dialog, tap the ok button.

To cancel any changes and exit the annotation settings dialog, press the Back key.

marks

mark location
jump to mark
clear history

mark location

Use mark location in the marks sub-menu to mark the current location using an unnamed mark. Only one unnamed mark can be set per document. This contrasts with named bookmarks. You can use the unnamed mark to easily mark the current location and return to it at any time later.

jump to mark

Use jump to mark in the marks sub-menu to jump to the unnamed mark.

clear history

Use clear history in the marks sub-menu to clear the entire jump history.

Note: If there is no jump history, then the clear history command appears grayed out.

go to

Use go to to activate the go to bar that provides a number of commands for navigating through a document. You can dismiss the go to bar by pressing the Back key. The go to bar has the following commands:

first: Use first on the go to bar to go to the top of page number one of the document.
prev.: Use prev. on the go to bar to go to the top of the page immediately before the current page.
page: Use page on the go to bar to activate the go to page dialog to jump to the top of a specified page number.
next: Use next on the go to bar to go to the top of the page immediately after the current page.
last: Use last on the go to bar to go to the last page of the document.
home: Use home on the go to bar to go to the top of the home page.
top: Use top on the go to bar to jump to the top of the current page.
up: Use up on the go to bar to go to the previous screen of content on the current page.
percent: Use percent on the go to bar to activate the go to percentage dialog to jump to a specified percentage of the page.
down: Use down on the go to bar to go to the next screen of content on the current page.
bottom: Use bottom on the go to bar to jump to the bottom of the current page.

tools

autoscroll
rotation lock
system information
about iSilo

autoscroll

Use autoscroll in the tools sub-menu to start autoscroll mode. In autoscroll mode, the page automatically scrolls down at an adjustable constant speed.

While autoscrolling, you can set the autoscroll speed to any of 20 levels. To increase the speed, touch the content area of the screen and drag up. To decrease the speed, drag down. A drag distance equal to one sixteenth of the height of the content area changes the speed by one step. Each increment increases the speed by one third.

Performing any action other than increasing or decreasing the autoscroll speed stops autoscrolling. The easiest way to stop autoscrolling without performing any other action simultaneously is to tap on an inactive area of the content portion of the screen.

By default, autoscroll uses smooth scrolling. See scroll options to change the autoscroll mode so that it scrolls a line at a time.