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Work with thumbnails

Thumbnails are always available for PDF pages. If they are not embedded, they are created on-the-fly whenever you open the Pages panel. Embedding thumbnails allows them to appear faster. By default thumbnails are not embedded.

Tip Thumbnails are useful for performing whole-page operations. An alternative is to use Document Assembly which, in addition, allows objects or text to be selected inside pages to be moved or copied to other pages or even other documents.

Thumbnails are displayed in the Pages panel. You can enlarge, reduce, embed or un-embed thumbnails.

Reduce thumbnails

  1. Display the Pages panel in the Panel area.
  2. Right-click a thumbnail and select Reduce Page Thumbnails from a shortcut menu, or click the Options drop-down at the top of the Panel, and select Reduce Page Thumbnails.

Enlarge thumbnails

  1. Display the Pages panel in the Panel area.
  2. Right-click a thumbnail and select Enlarge Page Thumbnails from a shortcut menu, or click the Options drop-down at the top of the Panel, and select Enlarge Page Thumbnails.

Embed thumbnails

  1. Display the Pages panel in the Panel area.
  2. Right-click a thumbnail and select Embed All Page Thumbnails from a shortcut menu, or click the Options drop-down at the top of the Panel, and select Embed All Page Thumbnails.
  3. Click OK in the warning message dialog box.
  4. Save your document. File size will increase.

Remove embedded thumbnails

  1. Display the Pages panel in the Panel area.
  2. Right-click a thumbnail and select Remove Embedded Page Thumbnails from a shortcut menu, or click the Options drop-down at the top of the Panel, and select Remove Embedded Page Thumbnails.
  3. Click OK in the warning message dialog box.
  4. Save your document. File size will increase.