The editor window, part by part
The editor is three bands: a toolbar across the top, the document and entries side by side in the middle, and a status bar along the bottom. Here’s what each control does and where to read more.
Top: the toolbar
Section titled “Top: the toolbar”From left to right:
- File badge — the original file name and, below it, the anonymized output name. Click it for file details.
- Template dropdown — apply a saved template, or save the current edits as one.
- Method pills — Synthesize, Redact, Label. The active one is filled; click another to switch the whole document’s approach. Click the active one again for its settings.
- Undo / Redo — every edit is undoable (⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z).
- Open original, open output, reveal in folder — quick file actions.
- Refresh — regenerate the anonymized output from the current entries.
- Auto switch — when on, the output regenerates automatically a beat after each edit, so the view tracks the list live.
- Save to output — promote the current version over the real output file. This is the only button that touches your deliverable.
Middle-left: the viewer
Section titled “Middle-left: the viewer”Your document, rendered in place. PDFs page by page, Word as pages with their fonts, tables, headers and footers, text as-is. It shows either the original or the anonymized result depending on the view toggle, with a soft purple tint over each value the entries change. See the document viewer.
Middle-right: the entries panel
Section titled “Middle-right: the entries panel”The heart of the editor: every replacement as a row you can edit. A header with an add button and the draw / highlight tool, a search box, embedded images (when there are any), then the text rows, grouped by category. Drawn areas get their own small section below. See the entries panel.
Bottom: the status bar
Section titled “Bottom: the status bar”- Zoom — zoom out and in, the zoom menu (Fit page, Fit width, 50% to 400%, where 100% is the page’s real size), and a fit page button. Beside them, the page in view and the page count, such as
3 / 22. See zoom and pages. - A note for Word files reminding you that Piixie lays the pages out, so line and page breaks can differ slightly from Word.
- Versions dropdown — jump to any regenerated version; the starred one is current.
- Instant redact switch — a black-bar preview over detected values (never saved).
- Anonymized / Original switch — flip the viewer between the safe copy and the source.
While it’s working
Section titled “While it’s working”When Piixie is regenerating, the toolbar collapses to a thin moving progress bar. It’s brief, and it means a new version is being written to the stash — your real output file isn’t touched until you save.