There are three View modes in PDF Nomad. Text mode, which is the default; Annotate mode, which is used to add and edit dynamic and static annotations, and Crop and Shift mode, which is used to alter the size of individual pages, change display box dimensions and shift the contents of the page in any direction.

Text Mode

Text mode is the default mode. You use it to view PDF documents, fill in forms, edit annotation comments, highlight and or copy text, etc.

Clicking on links in text mode takes you to the target of the link. If you want to select text that constitutes a link, this can be difficult since clicking the text will activate the link. In this case you can choose Tools Work Mode Deactivate Links from the menu bar. With links deactivated you can easily select linked text (e.g. to copy or highlight).

See the section What You Need to Know About Text Editing and Text Extraction for extra information on PDF Nomad's editing abilities.

Annotate Mode

Activating Annotate mode causes the annotation toolbar to appear in the preview area. From here you have access to both static and dynamic annotations. The four icons on the left of the toolbar allow you to select an the type of objects to insert onto a page. To show the drop down menu, click and hold the icon. A standard short click on an icon will activate it. You can then click or drag on a page to create the corresponding object. The next three icons allow control over stroke and fill color and line width of selected annotations. The right-most icon in the toolbar opens the Annotation inspector which shows a list of all dynamic (i.e. true PDF) annotations in the document. The Annotation Inspector allows you to add and edit notes on any annotation.

See the section Annotate Pages for more information.

Crop and Shift Mode

Crop and shift mode allows you to control the size of any display box (and thus also the size of any page), and to shift the contents of the pages in any direction, by simply dragging the edges or the content, or numerically through appropriate dialogs.

See the section Resize Pages and Shift Page Contents for more information.