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Patrimonio Digital Complutense: basic guide

Guide about the use and contents of the portal for the diffusion of the Complutense Digital Collection (https://patrimoniodigital.ucm.es/)

Image download

All the images that are part of the digitised collections available at PDC can be downloaded for private use. For any other purpose, the terms of use of the reproduction, which appear in the licence, should be consulted.

In order to download an image from PDC, whether it is a page from a book, an engraving, a photograph, etc., you must access the page of the item in question.

Item page at PDC

Clicking on the image (or on the eye icon) opens Mirador viewer, and we can access the options (menu with 3 dots) among which is the Download.

Open Mirador viewer and access the menu with 3 dots to select Download.

A pop-up window will then appear in which we can select the size to download the image. We will always have the option of downloading it in the original scan size, the best size available.

Select the size to download.

Finally, a new browser tab will open with the image in the selected size, and we may use the right mouse button on the image to “Save image as...” and download it to our PC.

Right mouse button and Save image as to download.

 

In the case of a book, we can download a page in image format using the same method, but we also have the option of downloading the pdf of the complete book.

Download options in a book: download image page or complete book pdf.