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The Thumbnails view of the sidebar shows every page as a thumbnail: click one to go there.
Available in pre-release 3.7
Open it with View → Show Thumbnails. At a glance:
  • Show / hide: View → Show Thumbnails, right-click → Show Thumbnails, or Ctrl + K, Toggle Thumbnails.
  • Switch views: click the Bookmarks, Thumbnails or Favorites icon in a sidebar panel’s header.
  • Go to a page: click its thumbnail, or Up / Down while the thumbnails have the focus.
  • Move the focus: Tab switches between the document and the thumbnails.
  • Reorder, remove or add pages: the Merge PDF window.

Show the Thumbnails view #

  • View → Show Thumbnails, or right-click the document → Show Thumbnails.
  • Ctrl + K, then Toggle Thumbnails in the Command Palette. The command is CmdToggleThumbnails, bind a shortcut to it as in Customize keyboard shortcuts.
  • In a sidebar panel’s header, click the Thumbnails icon (hover shows its name). The Bookmarks and Favorites icons switch back.
The Thumbnails view works for documents without bookmarks, too.

Two sidebar panels #

The sidebar has a top and a bottom panel. Each shows Bookmarks, Thumbnails or Favorites; the header icon of the view it shows is highlighted.
  • Show Thumbnails, Show Bookmarks (F12) and Show Favorites open their view in the top panel if it’s hidden, else in the bottom panel if that’s hidden, else the top panel switches to it.
  • If the view is already showing, the command hides its panel.
  • Clicking the icon of a view the other panel shows swaps the two panels’ views.
  • The top panel, and what it shows, is remembered per document. The bottom panel is the same for all documents: ShowFavorites and SidebarBottomView in advanced settings.

Go to a page #

Click a thumbnail. The page with the blue frame is the current one and follows you as you scroll the document.
Click a thumbnail or press Tab to give the thumbnails the keyboard focus; a dotted border shows they have it. Then Up / Down go to the previous / next page. Every other key works as in the document (Page Down, Home, shortcuts, …). Tab moves the focus back to the document.

Tips #

  • Use the Thumbnails view to find a page by how it looks: a figure, a table, a blank page.
  • Tip: to reorder, remove or add pages by dragging thumbnails, use right-click → Document → Merge PDF… (Merge PDF window).
  • Tip: Ctrl + K, then & shows a larger thumbnail grid in the Command Palette.

See also #

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