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Welcome to Toronto Star News in Education ePaper tutorial! With Toronto Star NIE, you can read Toronto Star online in its true printed format from anywhere in the world. The Toronto Star is enhanced with the latest digital tools, including RSS feeds. The ePaper also offers translation to 12 different languages, offline reading, mobile and eReader access and so much more!

Using your Toronto Star ePaper

Using Toronto Star NIE is easy and enjoyable. The front page of the most recent issue is available without registration. However, to access any pages beyond the front cover, you will be required to sign in. Please note that most of the features described here also require that you are signed in before they are available for your use.

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Table of Contents Click on the page number below to go to that page Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01 Signing In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03 Print Articles and Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04 Changing page views and bookmarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05 Toronto Star NIE search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06 Sections, Supplements and their respective back issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07 Offline Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07 Translate an article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08 Listen to the newspaper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09 Access using your mobile device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09 Quick user guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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To access your ePaper, click on “Toronto Star” or go to: torontostarnie.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx then click on “sign-in” in the top right-hand corner. Enter your email address and password.

The first page will now be displayed in the main window.

Magnify the section page

1. You can click anywhere on the page without text. 2. You can left-click and hold the mouse-down and draw a dotted circle around the area you wish to magnify. This will lasoo the area for enlargement, opening up a magnified window, in which the desired section has been enlarged. You can drag this box to your liking and increase it in size by dragging its borders. To enlarge this box, click the maximize icon. To close it, click the close icon. 3. You can also click on in the Toolbar on the bottom of the page.

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The Toolbar on the bottom of the page provides the interface for viewing thumbnails of each page in the section, and for quickly jumping to a new page.

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Print Articles and Pages

To print the full page of a publication, open the graphical view of the page you want to print. Click on the Print

icon on the toolbar below the page.

This will open a dialogue box where you can select the left or right page, paper size and margins. Once you have made your selections, just click the Print button to open the standard print dialogue box for your system. Then select your printer preferences and click on Print to send the page to the printer. For publications that support Smart Navigation features (distinguished by you can print individual articles or puzzles.

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To print a single article, open the article in text view by clicking on its title and then click on the Print icon in the top toolbar of the text window (If you click on the bottom Print icon, the full page will be printed as a default). To print a crossword or other puzzle, click the title of the Puzzle (e.g. “crossword”, “codeword”, “sudoku”, etc.) and a window will open which includes an image of the puzzle. Click on that image to open it in its own browser window. Print from this new window using your browser options. Note: You can also choose to print articles and pages to Adobe PDF if your system supports that feature. This is a good way to save individual articles and pages on your computer.

See all pages of a section at once

Simply click on ‘All thumbnails’ on the right frame or the bottom toolbar to see all of the thumbnails for the particular publication title in the main window.

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Decrease/increase font size within the magnified section

You can increase or decrease font size within the magnifying lens by simply clicking on a desired level on the zoom scale in the Toolbar on the bottom of the page to reload it with a new font setting.

One-page or two-page view

You can select the desired newspaper view based on your preference. To toggle between these options, please click on or n the Toolbar on the bottom of the page.

Changing a page

To move to a new page click the respective icon in the Toolbar on the bottom of the page. When you select a new page, the main window is updated with the selected page.

Creating Toronto Star NIE bookmarks

Toronto Star NIE Bookmark allows you to save a particular newspaper page (or spread) for later reference, and which you can email it to yourself, your friends, family or colleagues. To create one, click on in the Toolbar on the bottom of the page. You can save this page for as long as you’d like under your personal profile. You can manage and email Bookmarks by selecting ‘Bookmarks’ tab on the right side of the screen or by selecting ‘My Bookmarks’ from the ‘My Services’ drop-down on the top-toolbar.

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Toronto Star NIE search

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This is one of the great advantages of digital newspaper reading experience. Toronto Star NIE provides a search function which will aid you in your quest. After signing in, open the publication you want to read, and enter the keyword that you want to search for by selecting the Search tab on the right side of the screen. After the search is completed, Toronto Star NIE will present thumbnails of the pages that contain your search, indicate the number of times the searched word has been mentioned on that page, and highlight this word on the page for easy reference.

Toronto Star NIE back issues

With Toronto Star NIE, you can access not just today’s issue, but read 30 days of back issues as well. Select the section you would like to read, and then in the top toolbar mouseover the date of the publication to open up a calendar function. A floating calendar will appear, showing the dates for which Toronto Star NIE is available to you. Select the desired date and it will start taking you back in time. GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Toronto Star NIE: Sections, Supplements and their respective back issues

All available sections and supplements, which have been published on the particular date, are accessible via the Table of Contents to the right of the front page or in the navigation tool bar above the front page by scrolling down the Table of Contents entries. To access available sections supplements, which were published in the past, please follow the steps below: • Select current issue • From the calendar select the desired date, when the section or supplement was published • The Table of Contents will display sections or supplements available for that particular date • Click on the Front Page or other listed page of the section or supplement and it will load in the reading pane this word on the page for easy reference.

Offline reading

You can download a desired section for offline reading using the PressReader. To install the PressReader or to download the newspaper after the PressReader has been installed, please click on in the Toolbar on the bottom of the page.

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To translate the article

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To translate an article, switch to Article text view by clicking on the ‘headline’. Click on the icon to translate then click on any of the 12 languages of your choice.

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Listen to the newspaper

To listen to a newspaper on your computer, just click on the speaker icon to activate Interactive Radio which automatically starts reading the current article to you and gives you the option of filtering your play list or listening to other articles in this issue. You can even listen to the article in a different language, just translate the article first in text view, and then click on the speaker icon to have it read to you in the new language. If you want to listen to a newspaper on your smart mobile phone, find the paper you want to listen to through the mobile radio page and copy its URL into your media player on your device. The same URL will work every day as new issues of that paper are released so you only have to copy it once.

Access Toronto Star NIE from your mobile device

If you have a smart mobile device or Blackberry and you want to read your Toronto Star NIE while you’re “on the go”, just connect to Toronto Star NIE from your phone’s browser and you’re there! We’ve optimized Toronto Star NIE for small screens, so you will have a great viewing experience while enjoying all your favorite publications.

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Quick User Guide Newspaper replica view Click on

to customize your page view

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to choose the desired zoom level

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to download and save the paper for offline reading, using PressReader

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to share an article by email, blog or on social networks

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to listen to the newspaper

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to enlarge page

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to print the page or custom area

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to get more help to use this service

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to create an RSS feed to the front page or entire newspaper

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to learn about accessing the service on your mobile device

Article text view Click on

to print the article

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to listen to the article

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to share the article by email, blog or on social networks

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to switch from article view to newspaper view

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to bookmark the article

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to translate the article

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to close the article and return to newspaper view

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