Inspectors : Content

Content

Navigating PDF documents can sometimes be difficult when you are just scrolling through endless pages of documents. The Content Inspector shows two views, similar to what you see in Apple's Preview application: Table of Contents and Thumbnails.

Table of Contents

The Table of Contents displays the structure of certain document types. View the outline of a PDF document, provided that PDF contains one, section headings of Markdown documents, or emboldened or underlined lines in rich text files. Click on the disclosure triangle to show or hide sections within chapters. Click on any section heading to jump directly to the beginning of it.

For even quicker navigation, the table of contents can be navigated via keyboard, using the arrow keys to move around.

There are two contextual menu items in the Table of Contents view: Copy Page Link for use with PDF documents, and Copy Section Link for use with Markdown documents.

Thumbnails

The Thumbnails view shows a list of thumbnails, one for each page in the document. This allows for a more visual approach to moving through your document. By default, the thumbnails are shown in a single column but they can be displayed in multiple rows if the sidebar is expanded. This view allows for actions like these:

Jump to or select any page by clicking on it. Extend a range of selected pages by holding the ⇧Shift key to select consecutive pages. Hold the ⌃ Control key to select non-consecutive pages.
To quickly remove unwanted pages, press the ⌫ Backspace key.
If you want to reorder some pages, select the page(s) to move and drag and drop them within the thumbnails. A blue line will appear at the place the pages will be inserted. This will also work if you drag thumbnails from one PDF to another.
Drag selected pages to another location in your database and DEVONthink will create a new PDF containing only those pages.

You also have several options available in the contextual menu when you Control-click in the Thumbnails view:

Cut/Copy: Cut or copy the selected page(s) to be pasted into another PDF.
Copy Page Link: Copies a URL to the clipboard pointing directly to the current page of the document.
Reverse Page Order: Reverse the page order of the document.
Split Document: Splits the document at the current page. A new document is created from the preceding pages and removed from the current document. This item is unavailable when the first page of the document is selected. Also, note this action cannot be undone.
Insert Blank Page: Insert a new blank page.
Delete Selected Page(s): Delete the selected page(s).
Rotate Left/Right: Rotate the selected pages left or right.
Select/Deselect All: Select or deselect all pages in the document.