Browsing Journals

When your site subscribes to an OvidSP Full Text database, your access includes Full Text articles and books with formatted text and images. OvidSP allows you to carry out the following tasks with images:

• View images
• Print images
• Save images
• Email jumpstarts

Working with Images

Image Gallery

To go to the Image Gallery, click on the Image Gallery link on the Outline Box or press the END key.

Printing Images

When you view a Full Text article, its graphics are located on the same points in the text at which they occurred in the source article. They are thumbnail size, which makes the initial loading of the article faster. Most thumbnail graphics, however, are too small to be read or printed legibly. Print options allows you to:

• Print image choices
• Print Full Text with images
• Print Full Text images separately

Printing OvidSP Full Text with Images

Opening the Print Preview Options Page: Select a graphic size to display with the content. Click the Continue button. OvidSP displays a printable version of the content with graphics scaled to the preferred size. Activate your browser's Print function.

Printed content includes:

• Text and images from the previous display
• An abbreviated copyright statement
• Removal of OvidSP interface elements

Click the Previous Page button once you have sent the print job to a local printer. OvidSP opens the Print Preview Options Page again. Click the Previous Page button to return to the Full Text display.

Printing Images

To print only the image from Full Text, click the image in the Full Text. Then click on the View Image Full Size link

From the full-sized graphic display, you may invoke your browser's print function. To do so, right-click on the image and follow the browser prompts.

For better output quality, follow these steps from the full-sized image display. Click the Download Tiff link. An image-viewer opens the image's TIFF file. Press the Control + P keys on your keyboard. A print dialogue box opens. Follow the prompts to send the TIFF file to a local printer.

Click the Back button to return to the full-sized image display when the Print dialogue box closes.

Some images—particularly charts and tables with text—appear "fuzzy" or incomplete when printed. The image may be too large to fit on a single HTML page or may lose resolution when printed at full size. To retrieve the highest possible resolution of an image, use the Download TIFF link. Most browsers may be configured to display TIFF images.

External image viewers offer more options when working with images.

Certain TIFF images—particularly color graphics—may display poorly when opened using LViewPro or Graphic Converter. If you encounter this problem, use a professional graphics application such as Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro to view the images.

Current web browser versions may handle image clarity automatically, negating the need for a separate TIFF viewer.

Saving Images

To save an image from Full Text, first open its full-sized display. Then, follow these steps:

1. Click the Download Tiff link located at the top of the display. A File Download dialogue box opens.
2. Click the Save button. A Save As dialogue box opens.
3. In the dialogue box, type a file name, file type, and directory location.
4. Click the Save button.

OvidSP saves the image in the directory location you indicated.

Open the image's full-size display, then invoke your browser's save function to save an image from OvidSP Full Text for use by another application (such as presentation software). If you find the size of the image inappropriate for your purpose, try saving it as a TIFF image.

Exporting to PowerPoint

To export an image to PowerPoint, first open its full-sized display. Then, follow these steps:

1. Click the Export to PowerPoint link located at the top of the display. A File Download dialogue box opens.
2. Click the Save button. A Save As dialogue box opens.
3. In the dialogue box, type a file name, file type, and directory location.
4. Click the Save button.

OvidSP saves the PowerPoint file in the directory location you indicated.

Emailing OvidSP Jumpstarts to Images

Depending on your site configurations, you may see the Create Jumpstart page next. To proceed, type your user ID and password, then click the Continue button.

To omit username and password information from the jumpstart, be sure to select the Exclude User ID/Password from Jumpstart URL box. Substantial security risk: user name and password information display within the jumpstart URL that gets created and distributed! Exclude this information by checking the box on this page.

OvidSP opens the Email Jumpstart Page.

OvidSP sends an email containing the jumpstart URL of the image to the recipients and displays a confirmation message. Click the Close button to close the window.

Adding Images to Projects

To add an image from journal HTML Full Text, double click on the image, and select the Add to My Projects option.