The ICEpdf Viewer Work Area
The ICEpdf Viewer consists of the following four distinct work areas:
- Main toolbar - provides controls and buttons to navigate and work with a PDF file.
- Document pane - displays a PDF file.
- Utility pane - has a bookmark tab which lets you browse a PDF file using a documents bookmarks, search tab which enables you to search for text in a file, layers tab for manipulation of optional content, thumbnail view and annotation tab panel for editing and creating annotations.
- View toolbar - allows you to change the way a document's pages are displayed in the document pane.
Figure 2 ICEpdf Viewer Work Area

Main Toolbar
The toolbar has shortcuts for many common functions, but you can hide it to have a larger display area. To show or hide the toolbar, select View > Show Toolbar or View > Hide Toolbar. The toolbar provides access to the view and navigation functionality.
Figure 3 ICEpdf Main Toolbar

From left to right, the toolbar contains:
- Open Document
- Save As...
- Print Document
- Search Document
- Show/Hide Utility Pane
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- First Page
- Previous Page
- Current Page
- Next Page
- Last Page
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- Zoom Out
- Current Zoom
- Zoom In
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- Actual Size
- Fit in Window
- Fit Width
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- Pan Tool
- Text Selection Tool
- Marquee Zoom Tool
- Dynamic Zoom Tool
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- Annotation Select Tool
- Highlight Annotation Tool
- Text Annotation Tool
- Show Annotation Utility Pane
- Annotation Summary View
- Form highlight toggle
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View Toolbar
The view toolbar contains four buttons that allow you to change how a PDF document is displayed.
From left to right:
- Single Page View Non-continuous
- Single Page View Continuous
- Facing Page View Non-continuous
- Facing Page View Continuous
About the Utility Pane
You can show or hide the utility pane, which contains tabs for a document's bookmarks, search, thumbnails, layers and annotation functionality. If the file does not have any bookmarks, the bookmarks tab is not displayed.
To show or hide the utility pane, select View > Show Utility Pane or View > Hide Utility Pane. Alternatively, if the toolbar is displayed, you can click the Show/Hide Utility Pane button.