Rotating and Zooming

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If you scan a picture taken in portrait orientation and it arrives in Imaging in landscape orientation, you can set matters aright by choosing the Rotate Page command from the Page menu. The submenu that appears lets you rotate the image 90 degrees to the left or right, or a full 180 degrees.

Commands on the Zoom menu let you change the magnification of your image, from 2 percent of actual size to 6500 percent. (Actual size means the size the image would have if displayed as a bitmap on your desktop.) The Zoom In and Zoom Out commands (and their respective shortcut keys, Ctrl+Up arrow and Ctrl+Down arrow) double and halve the current magnification. The commands at the bottom of the menu let you select a specific magnification value. Choose Custom to enter a value that doesn't have its own menu entry.

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The Zoom list on the Standard toolbar shows you the current magnification. You can click the arrow to the right of this figure to choose a different magnification, or you can simply type in a different percentage.

Fit To Height and Fit To Width, in the middle of the Zoom menu, adjust the magnification of your image to fit the current dimensions of Imaging's main window. Best Fit sizes the image to either the width or height of the window, whichever results in less unused space in the window.

Zooming to a Selected Area

To focus on a particular portion of an image:

1. Click the Select Image button on the Imaging toolbar. (Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Spacebar or choose Select Image from the Edit menu.)
2. Drag your mouse pointer across the area of the image that you're interested in.
3. Choose Zoom To Selection from the Zoom menu.

Imaging magnifies the selected portion of the image so that it fills the main window.