Changing the Library Appearance

A widget appears at the bottom of the Library palette, just beneath the library buttons shown in the previous figure. Click this widget to expand the Library palette to view the display options described in the sections that follow:

The Library Display Options widget.

Display Options

Display library options.

Check or uncheck the options listed below, to show or hide the various areas in the Library palette as desired. These areas are labeled in the following figure.

Breadcrumbs, Tree, Item List, and Extended Details in the Library palette.

• Tree: Displays a hierarchical view of the contents of your library. Check or uncheck this option to show or hide the hierarchical tree in the Library palette. If the Item List Panel is turned off, thumbnails appear in the tree.
• Item List Panel: Displays the folders and content thumbnails for the folder that is selected in the tree. The thumbnail display appears in multiple rows and columns that adjust to the width and height of the Library palette. Check or uncheck this option to show or hide the item list panel.
• Extended Details Panel: Displays information about the selected item. Check or uncheck this option to show or hide the extended details.

The Extended Details panel will display basic information such as the product name, size, the date the file was installed and last modified, and the path to the file on your computer. Additional metadata can also appear about a library item if it has been added by the author of the content. Extended details can include additional information such as author name, copyright information, usage instructions, and more. Metadata is stored in a file that ends with an XMP extension.

• Breadcrumbs: Displays the runtime folder path to the selected library folder. Check or uncheck this option to show or hide the breadcrumbs.
• Log Library Events: Actions and selections performed in the library will appear in the event log window.

Tree Options

Thumbnails and additional product details appear in the Tree if you have selected to disable the Item List Panel. The options in the Tree Options section control the size of preview and selected item thumbnails, details, and other items in the Tree.

Tree library options.

• Thumbnail Size: Drag the slider left or right to decrease or increase the size of the preview thumbnails.
• Selected Thumbnail Size: Drag the slider left or right to decrease or increase the size of the thumbnail for selected library items.
• Tree Indentation: Drag the slider left or right to decrease or increase the amount of indentation for items and folders that appear within and beneath library folders.
• Reopen folders: When checked, folders will remain expanded when you select another folder. When unchecked, folder will collapse when you select another folder.
• Show Folder Counts: When checked, a number will appear in parentheses to indicate the number of items that are contained within that folder.

List Options

When the Item List is enabled, thumbnails appear in multiple columns that adjust to fit the width of the panel. Settings in the List Options section control size of the thumbnail and the placement of text around the thumbnail.

List library options.

• Thumbnail Size: Drag the slider left or right to decrease or increase the size of the content thumbnails.
• Thumbnail Gap: Adjusts the amount of horizontal space between the thumbnails
• As Grid: When checked, displays content in a grid of thumbnails only. When unchecked, displays contents as a list, with a thumbnail preview and details of each item.
• Show Folder Thumbnails: When checked, a thumbnail of the first item in the selected folder will appear on the folder. When unchecked, folders will display without a thumbnail.

Details Options

The Details Options tab controls the appearance of the thumbnails in the Extended Details panel.

Details library options.

• Show Image: Check this option to display an image of the selected library item in the Extended Details panel. Uncheck the option to remove the image display.
• Max Image Size: If you have images displayed in the Extended Details panel, drag the slider toward the left to reduce the size of the image, or toward the right to increase the size.

Search Options

The Search Options tab provides settings relating to library searches.

Search options.

Autocomplete: When checked, search terms will automatically complete after enough characters are entered to determine results that match characters that you enter. When unchecked, the word will not autocomplete. In either case, search terms that match the characters that you enter will dynamically appear beneath the search field.