The most fundamental function of SuperEdit is to enable viewing of full-size scanned drawings in its Drawing window. The viewing function enable zooming and scrolling so all details of drawings can be inspected.

Start SuperEdit by double-clicking its icon that was created by Setup . The File Open dialog appears automatically after start. You should see the SuperEdit screen layout, as in the figure below.

Choose File Type TIFF and open the file office.tif from the SuperEdit ’s DOC subdirectory. The image will get opened and, because of default configuration options, it will be automatically zoomed to its full extents and selected for editing. All buttons of the Main toolbar, except of Save , Scan one , Scan many , Undo and Redo , should be active, and its status line should read office.tif . All buttons of the Raster toolbar should be active (except Merge that requires more than one raster image being selected).

Move the SuperEdit cursor around to see that its coordinates are displayed in Input bar X and Y boxes. They would make sense for a building floor measured in millimeters and this kind of units is displayed in Input bar. This results from the values of parameters that have been set for the office.tif image. Enter Image Properties... option from Document menu. Since the program knows that you open a single file, this button will directly show parameters of the only raster image that is opened at the time, as in the figure below.

The Parameters tab of the Raster Image Properties dialog shows the full path to the image file, Effective Image Extents in the current Units (mm), the nominal Scale (1:400) and Resolution (300×300) and the Insertion Point coordinates. All those parameters make it possible for SuperEdit to place the image in the world coordinates system, so that it may be compatible with overlaid drawings. Close the Raster Image Properties dialog.

Use Zoom command (from Main toolbar or Zoom menu) to view different parts of the scanned drawing. All SuperEdit commands are available from some kind of toolbar or menu. Use them in a way you find more convenient.