Hi VaShaun and others, Cheryl wrote: >In documents I've seen, the drawer allows you to access various parts of >the document without having to go from one page to the next in sequence. >For instance, the audio hijack pro manual has a drawer which is like an >outline; you interact with it, choose your topic, quit interaction and >then interact with html and read that information.
In Preview under Tiger the drawer has two view modes: one that represents thumbnails of individual pages and a second that gives document information in outline form as Cheryl described. There's also a search field that allows you to type in a search phrase. Then the entries below show lines in the document that contain that phrase, and again you can interact with the table of listed results and go back to read the page where that phrase occurs. I've heard that in Leopard Preview's drawer is replaced by a permanent sidebar. The "drawer" nature referred to the fact that you either display the drawer by "pulling it out" or leaving it closed, depending on how you wanted to use your screen display real estate. Also, in Preview you could always open the drawer by using command-f to search for a phrase. Then you could navigate to it with the VoiceOver arrow keys, examine a few contextual results and go back to read their pages. It's most useful in navigating manuals via table of contents outline as Cheryl described. Cheers, Esther
