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1. Support for Pen Map files when printing color documents with black and white printers Or you can set a minimum printed vector width 95 NT Lines and fills in vector images on page 51 in Chapter 6 Oc View Station User Manual New feature Detailed information Measurements window measures while you are editing Measuring while editing an image on page 77 in Chapter 12 You can copy measurement information into a spreadsheet Copying measurement values on page 56 in Chapter 7 Objects cut or copied from other programs can be pasted into Oc View Station Pasting rasters on page 78 in Chapter 12 Banners and stamps can be applied to the current page or to all pages 95 NT Making banners or stamps part of the image on page 84 in Chapter 13 The Enhance menu is now called the Raster menu The Clean and Scale commands are now called Despeckle and Resize Chapter 14 Improving Raster Images on page 89 Grayscale and color images can now be deskewed Deskewing an image on page 92 in Chapter 14 Deskew User Defined and Deskew Auto commands are in the Raster menu Deskewing an image on page 92 in Chapter 14 Standard page sizes can be deleted and restored 95 NT Defining custom page sizes on page 99 in Chapter 14 Hairlines Wireframes and Monochrome commands have been added to the View menu Optimi
2. Select the batches to process Click Process Selected Batches This starts the processing of selected batches regardless of the time frame assigned to them or their disabled status At any point you can stop batch processing To stop processing batches In the Batch Manager dialog box a Click Stop Processing Processing stops after the current image is complete The Stop Processing Button changes to the Close button Processing Images in Batches 121 Troubleshooting Y 122 This section covers some of the common problems you could encounter when processing images in batches I submitted an image to a Batch Directory but it s not there You may not have selected the correct Batch Directory Use the Windows Find command to locate the file For details on selecting directories see Figure 52 on page 115 I ve created a batch in the Batch Setup dialog box but when I click OK I get an error message saying that the directory is invalid or doesn t exist Check each of the directory paths in the Directories group to verify that they exist and are spelled correctly To avoid this problem use the Browse button to select the directories Why is my color image now black and white And why is my vector file now a raster file All images that are processed in batches or with Batch Run Commands are rasterized to a bilevel raster For details on rasterizing see Rasterizing images on page 82 in Chapter
3. Speckle Sie 28 pixels Cancel 37 Despeckle dialog box Speckle Size 28 or less In the Despeckle dialog box To fill white holes under Hole Fill a Type the maximum Hole Width Length an integer from 1 to 253 This is the size of one side of the square area within which the hole to fill must fit Type the Hole Size any integer from 1 to the square of the Hole Width Length value The hole consists of connected white dots If you do not want to fill white holes leave the value at 0 To remove black specks under Speckle Removal Type the maximum Speckle Width Length an integer from 1 to 253 Again it s the size of one side of the speckle area Type the Speckle Size any integer from 1 to the square of the Speckle Width Length value The speckle consists of connected black dots If you do not want to remove black specks leave the value at 0 Click OK A progress indicator appears White holes are filled first then black specks are removed The new cleaner image is displayed Deskewing an image 92 Sometimes documents are scanned crookedly which results in skewed electronic images To correct this specify an angle of rotation for the image You can a Deskew the image automatically Oc View Station User Manual or Click two points on a crooked image line to define the deskew angle Tip The automatic method is easiest but it works best on formatted documents and ima
4. according to their clean up and file requirements For example create a pile for images that must be cleaned up one for images requiring banners and one for files to be converted Place these images into separate designated directories such as a Clean up or a Banners directory In Oc View Station Choose Batch Batch Manager The Batch Manager dialog box appears See Figure 49 Batch Manager Lx Clean up stored images Confidential stamps Convert files to bmp Edit converties to tif Date and Time banners Delete O Deskew O Generate thumbnails for image database Enable RADovemight clean up of scanned images Covemight file conversions Disable Scan Station clean up Scan Station 9 clean up Ostandardize images for archival Test O Weekend clean up for scanned images New Batch processing is idle Process Batches Process Selected Batches Close 49 Batch Manager dialog box with a series of batches defined In the Batch Manager dialog box click New The Batch Setup dialog box appears In the Batch Setup dialog box Create a new batch using the directory that you created in step 2 as the Input directory For details see Defining a new batch on page 118 in this chapter To globally apply clean up and file options to the images in the batch directory select the Override Commands in Images check box Click Command Setup See Figure 50 The Command Setup dialog bo
5. 70 Oc View Station keeps track of the changes you make on each edit layer If you change your mind or make a mistake you can reverse the last several actions Keep in mind that actions include erasing cutting and pasting but not Raster functions To undo the latest action on the image a Choose Edit Undo The last change made is reversed You can choose Edit Undo until you reach an action that cannot be undone or until no actions are left to be undone You can also redo an action that you have undone To redo an action that you have canceled a Choose Edit Redo After you have modified the objects on the page to your satisfaction you will probably want to save the document For information on how to do that see Chapter 11 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 11 Saving Documents After you ve made changes to an image you ll likely want to save them This chapter explains how 71 Doing a basic save Use this procedure when you don t want to change the file properties of the document on save v To save modifications to the active document Choose File Save The document is saved in the same location with the same names it had before Saving the document with new properties Use this procedure when you want to change the location file name or format of the document as you save it a have created a multipage document by openin
6. Before You Begin Who are you 10 Imaging basics 10 Rasters 10 Vectors and text documents 11 Combining types 11 What s new since Release 1 0 12 Related publications 13 Manual conventions 14 Chapter 2 Getting Started Installing Oc View Station 16 Starting Oc View Station 16 Changing languages 17 Using Oc View Station Help 17 Finding topics 18 Links 18 Quitting Oc View Station 19 Chapter 3 Opening Documents Setting open defaults 22 Opening documents 24 Troubleshooting 24 Closing documents 25 Chapter 4 Viewing Pages Overview Using the View Options and Preferences 28 Zooming and scaling 30 Magnifying a specific area of the image 30 Table of contents Using the Reference window to zoom 31 Magnifying and reducing the image 32 Applying scaling to all pages of a document 32 Further zooming and scaling options 33 Getting a detailed view of the image 33 Getting an overview of the image 34 Scrolling 35 Rotating an image 36 Inverting image colors 37 Displaying a negative image 37 Redrawing windows 38 Displaying a mirrored image 39 Chapter 5 Working with Multiple Pages Creating multipage documents 42 Changing pages 42 Understanding embedded pages 43 Chapter 6 Printing Overview Printing 46 Troubleshooting 47 Defining print options 47 Scale 48 Page sections 48 Orientation 49 Page grouping 49 Margins 50 Color 50 Lines and fills in vector images 51 Printing to file 51 Chapter 7 Gettin
7. Click 2 Double click Click 4 Glick 3 As you draw the measure area the Measurements window lists measurement values When you stop all values related to the completed object are grayed Values related to the pointer position continue to be updated If you want to keep the Measurements window on screen but not measure you can change from Measuring mode to Viewing mode To place the Measurements window in Viewing mode 1 Right mouse click in the Measurements window 2 From the menu that appears choose the currently selected measure tool Getting Information 55 The check mark beside the tool appears dimmed and the Measurements window changes to Viewing mode Only values related to the pointer position are displayed Changing the Measurements window units You can select the units in which measurements appear in the Measurements window v To change the Measurements window units a Right mouse click in the Measurements window From the menu that appears choose a size or angle unit as appropriate Measurements are now displayed in the selected units Copying measurement values You can copy the information in the Measurements window to the Clipboard You can then place the data in spreadsheets and the categories and values will appear in separate columns v To copy the values in the Measurements window a Right mouse click in the Measurements window From the menu that appears choose Copy The values a
8. Attach the security key if one was sent with your copy of Oc View Station Insert the CD ROM into your CD ROM drive Follow the on screen instructions You can choose the Typical installation recommended for most users the Compact installation it installs the minimum required options or the Custom install recommended for advanced users When the Setup and Installation program is finished select whether to view the Oc View Station readme file begin the program or return to Windows The installed programs are placed in the Oc View Station folder or group Starting Oc View Station You start Oc View Station the same way you do other Windows based programs To start Oc View Station 1 From the Start menu choose Programs Oc View Station Oc View Station The Oc View Station window opens No documents are loaded 2 To open a document P choose File Open In the Open Documents dialog box select a document Click OK Oc View Station User Manual The selected document opens Now that you have a document open try clicking some of the buttons in the View Ribbon below the menu bar to see the effect Note that if you place the pointer on a button a ToolTip is displayed that explains it More information about viewing documents is provided in Chapter 4 to Chapter 5 Changing languages o You can change the Oc View Station user interface so that menu items dialog boxes and online hel
9. Chapter 15 Optimizing Image Display and Performance Improving raster display 104 Scaling to gray 104 Sampling a dense raster image 104 Optimizing raster speed 105 Optimizing vector speed 106 Optimizing vector display 107 Configuring vector pen lines 107 Chapter 16 Processing Images in Batches Overview Two paths for processing images 110 Interactive path 110 Batch path 111 Defining image improvements 113 Setting file options 115 6 Oc View Station User Manual Setting thumbnail options 115 Saving and reusing commands 116 Managing batches 117 Defining a new batch 118 Editing batches 120 Processing batches 120 Troubleshooting 122 Appendix A Glossary 123 Appendix B Quick Reference 135 Index 139 Table of contents Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 1 Before You Begin Welcome This User s Guide explains how to use Oc View Station Oc View Station is imaging software used to view edit and enhance scanned images either individually or in batches To get the most out of this guide please start by reading the first section of this chapter It explains what else you should be reading Who are you Imaging means Depending on your level of experience with Oc View Station and with recording human readable images into machine to you Table 0 1 provides guidelines based on your current expertise readable formats microfich imagi
10. Printing This section provides an overview of the printing process This quick reference provides enough information for experienced users or for anyone printing small bilevel raster images For details on the various print options however see the next section To print the active document 95 NT 1 Choose File Print The Print dialog box appears See Figure 12 Print Page Options Printer Layout Name Linotroni Properties Status Ready Type Linotronic 330 Where ANTPRN TechPubs Comment Documentation Group I Printto file m Print range 5 p Copies E Number of copies 1 a E rom 1 gt P amp Current 1 1 Scale To Fit Print Entire Page bd Cancel Close Help 46 12 Print dialog box as it appears by default Oc View Station User Manual oa BR Ww In the Print category Select the Print range the Number of copies to be sent to the active printer the Scale and which part of the page to Print In the Page category Select the Paper Size Orientation Margins and Layout options to use In the Options category Select or clear the Tile check box or Center check box if available to position the image on the printed page Select or clear the Rasterize Bilevel and Dither check boxes to set the image rendering options If required select a Pen Mask Table file and Minimum Vector Width to control the appearance of lines and fills in vector images Click Print A p
11. defining 118 120 deleting 120 directories 115 119 editing 120 file format options 115 logging 119 managing 117 118 processing 110 120 121 saving and reusing commands 116 117 testing clean up commands 110 111 114 time frames for processing 120 troubleshooting 122 bilevel printers 50 bilevel rasterize output 83 bilevel rasters 10 24 cropping automatically 95 deskewing 94 despeckling 91 filling holes 91 92 inverting 37 negating 37 38 printing 46 50 processing in batches 110 sampling 104 scaling to gray 104 bind selection see multipages creating bitmaps 124 black and white printers 50 books in help 18 box shape 63 boxes drawing 66 brightness on display 104 of stamps 87 onprint 50 of rasterized images 84 buffer printing 47 Cc calibrating measurements 57 58 cascading windows 23 cew rotation 36 97 centering prints 48 check boxes 124 circle shape 63 circles drawing 67 clarifying images 104 cleaning up images 90 cleaning up images in batches 109 clockwise rotation 36 97 closing program 19 closing windows 25 color inverting 37 output raster 83 pastes 78 vector pens 51 108 color printers 50 color rasters 10 inverting 37 printing 50 processing in batches 122 properties 58 59 rasterizing 82 83 commands batch processing 113 114 comments in raster files 59 contents of multipage 42 contents tab 18 context sensitive help 17 137 conventions manual 14 converting documents 72 copyi
12. negative The background is black and the foreground is white with the black pixels predominating Inverting a negative image won t solve the problem of the black pixels predominating it just reverses them to white Instead use the View Negate command Viewing Pages 37 To select or deselect negative for the active raster image Choose View Negate The negative image is displayed as positive or vice versa Note At a 1 1 scale ratio a negative image looks the same as an inverted one When you reduce an image not all pixels can be shown When negative is selected the white bits are discarded for display instead of the black bits which is why the image looks so dark In inverted images the black to white ratio is maintained at all scale factors Only bilevel raster images can be displayed as negative or positive but all images can be inverted ni DOES I Image reduced Normal Inverted Negative display of a display display normal image If you have access to the Raster menu you can permanently change the negative status of a raster image For more information see Making a negative image positive on page 91 in Chapter 14 Redrawing windows 38 Redrawing a window has two main functions Use it to Get rid of noise extraneous data that remains from previous views Update all windows displaying the active document including the Reference window Redrawing does not apply Preference menu selectio
13. to continue Yes No If the file to modify is small click Yes to continue Otherwise click No and close some documents or programs to free up more memory before trying again The deskew angle must be value degrees or less Redefine the skew angle so that it s within the skew range available The resolution must be between value and value You have typed an invalid resolution value in the Resize dialog box Type a resolution value within the given range The next chapter deals with optimizing the performance of Oc View Station Improving Raster Images 101 102 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 15 Optimizing Image Display and Performance Optimizations are often a trade off To improve speed you usually have to sacrifice image quality When you improve image quality the image takes longer to load and view This chapter discusses the optimizations that you can select for raster and vector images based on what is most important to you speed or appearance 103 Improving raster display Some raster images are hard to view They can look dark dense and speckled Image display problems usually originate in the files themselves but are improved by certain Oc View Station viewing functions a If the bilevel raster looks inverted has a dark background when magnified but becomes very black when reduced it s probably a negative image See Displaying a negative
14. A progress indicator appears as the image is rasterized Save the new raster For details see Saving the document with new properties in Chapter 11 The new raster file contains no corrupted data Oc View Station User Manual Making a negative image positive The View Negate command allows you to display negative images as though they were positive or the reverse To actually change the image data however you must use the Raster Negate command This command works only on bilevel raster images v To make the negative active raster positive or the reverse Choose Raster Negate A progress indicator appears as the image is made positive or negative The new image is displayed Removing spots and filling holes Scanned images can contain noise extraneous black dots or white holes in black areas of the image You can remove black dots or fill in white dots on the active raster image See Figure 36 LS Note This command works only on bilevel raster images pret eats d Panenan Tete aaia Ho 36 Despeckling operation v To despeckle the active raster image 1 Choose Raster Despeckle The Despeckle dialog box appears See Figure 37 on page 92 The values last used are displayed by default Improving Raster Images 91 Despeckle Lx Hole Fill Hale Width Length 0 pixels Hole Size 0 pixels Speckle Removal Speckle Width Length 2 9 pixels
15. BMP BMP MS Windows Bitmap 7 28 Default save formats specified in File Preferences Select the Raster Files and Color Raster Files formats to use by default These formats are used for new rasters Click Save Click OK The selected formats are used as appropriate The Image Directory specified in this dialog box is also used by default when saving new images The next chapter discusses another way you can modify documents by cutting copying and pasting parts of raster images Saving Documents 73 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 12 Editing Rasters The traditional definition of editing is preparing text for publication by checking and improving its accuracy clarity and so forth In Oc View Station as in most Windows based programs editing refers more generally to changing a document in some way often by cutting and pasting This chapter describes how to cut copy and paste sections of raster images The Edit menu also contains Rubout and Erase Area commands For information on how to use them refer to Chapter 9 on page 65 75 Cutting and copying rasters You can copy areas of the image and you can cut areas after adding an active edit layer Cut and copy areas can be in the shape of boxes circles ellipses or polygons You can change the shape for the active edit layer The default shape is selected in the Edit Preferences dialog box v
16. Care 53 Thumbnail dialog box as it appears by default In the Thumbnail dialog box 2 Select the Color for the thumbnail a To produce a bilevel black and white image without dithered sections select Bilevel To produce a grayscale thumbnail select Grayscale 3 Select the Size for the thumbnail 4 Select the Resolution for the thumbnail 5 Select the File Format for the thumbnail The thumbnail is now defined for the active document It will be created during batch processing or when you choose Batch Run Commands Note If you choose Run Commands the thumbnail appears in a document Lg window named New Raster To keep it you must save the thumbnail For details see Saving the document with new properties on page 72 in Chapter 11 Saving and reusing commands After defining the image options in the Command Setup dialog box you can save them and apply them later to other images 116 Oc View Station User Manual v To save commands for use with other images In the Command Setup dialog box see Figure 51 on page 114 1 Define the required commands Click Save The Save dialog box appears In the Save dialog box 2 Select the folder in which to save the command file 3 Type the file name to use The Save as Type list indicates the file will be saved with an ini extension 4 Click Save The commands are saved with the properties you selected You can reuse the saved commands by opening them in the Command
17. Options F4 View FE int snseh este F2 View Lili sans Mines mn CTRL 1 View Magnify c ccccccceeeeeneeens PLUS SIGN View Reduce ss MINUS SIGN View Refresh F7 View Invert assistants cdsheo st ae F8 View Rotate 90 CCW ccccccceseeeeee F9 View Rotate 90 CW sseossssesenseseeseeee F10 Page GOTO saines CTRL G Page First int saunas HOME Page Previous PAGE UP Page Next its ert PAGE DOWN Page Lastitss tissus END Preference Reference F6 Table B 1 Commands and their shortcut keys Sheet 1 of 2 136 Oc View Station User Manual Command Preference Detail Shortcut keys ieke SIEDE F11 Table B 1 Commands and their shortcut keys Sheet 2 of 2 Other keyboard combinations don t correspond to any particular command but may still be useful to you These are listed in Table B 2 Shortcut keys ATTOW keys CTR FFILL seen Table B 2 Other shortcut keys Quick Reference Function Scrolls the page in the direction of the key Freezes or releases the Detail window display When the Detail window is active pressing these keys on the numeric keypad magnifies or reduces the Detail window view When a dialog box is active or a command is selected displays the Oc View Station Help topic for that dialog box or command 137 Using the right mouse button to choose commands Many procedures can be done by clicking the right mouse button in the active doc
18. Size From the list choose the size to use You can select one of the predefined custom or standard sizes such as Legal or ISO A2 or you can select Custom If you selected Custom type or select the width and length of the area to crop the image to Click OK The pointer changes to with a crossed box of the selected size around it On the current page move the crossed box over the area to crop and click A reversed block appears over the area that you defined In the Verify Crop Region dialog box click OK To move the crop area click Reset Oc View Station User Manual A progress indicator appears as the image is cropped The new cropped image is displayed Correcting a mirrored raster The View Mirror command allows you to display the reflection of mirrored images To permanently change the image data however you must use the Raster Mirror command To mirror the active raster Choose Raster Mirror A progress indicator appears as the image is mirrored The new mirrored image is displayed Rotating a raster image When you use the View Rotate commands the on screen display of the image is rotated To permanently rotate the image data you must use the Raster Rotate commands To rotate the active raster image Choose Raster Rotate Choose the rotation to apply to the image 90 CCW counter clockwise 90 CW clockwise 180 Portrait or Landscape A progress indicator appears as the image i
19. Translucent or Opaque paste background If you select Translucent the layers underlying the paste show Paste If you select Opaque the paste covers up the underlying layers a MR re Click OK The appearance of the paste is now defined for the active edit layer only To define pastes for future edit layers repeat the procedure starting with Preference Edit To paste a raster copy Choose Edit Paste On the active edit layer Place the pointer approximately where you want to paste Hold down the mouse button An outline of the paste appears at the pointer location Drag the paste to the position you want Release the mouse button The paste appears on the page in the same shape as the last cut or copy area The Paste command is no longer active The next chapter focuses on the Rasterize Stamp and Banner commands of the Raster menu Editing Rasters 79 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 13 Rasterizing Images This chapter explains how to use the Rasterize command and how to place banners and stamps on an image 81 Rasterizing images 82 Rasterizing means converting the original image and any erases cuts and pastes into a single raster image The rasterized image is usually faster to load view and print especially if the original image was a complex vector Rasterizing also corrects any corrupted data in the original raster file To rasteriz
20. dirty crooked negative mirrored or rotated raster images as well as resize and crop raster images You ll find the commands to do this in the Raster menu You can also automate these functions and apply them to many images at once For details on that see Chapter 16 on page 109 89 Overview Improving raster images oar N Sometimes raster images have multiple problems they are crooked dirty mirrored We recommend that you correct them in the following order Rasterize them if the file is bad Make them positive if negative Despeckle them if dirty Deskew them if crooked Crop them to remove extraneous information Flip them if mirrored The raster procedures are presented in this order in this chapter You can also rotate raster images resize them or change their resolution Correcting bad files 90 Oc View Station loads and displays bad raster files unless the data is too corrupted Clues that a file contains corrupted data include the following a The image is greatly distorted a The document fails to save under certain writable file formats a The image displays anomalies or distortions when scrolled magnified or reduced a The image fails to deskew You can convert the corrupted file into a good one To convert a corrupted raster file into a good file Open the bad raster image Choose Raster Rasterize In the Rasterize dialog box click OK
21. image on page 37 in Chapter 4 for information on displaying it a If the bilevel raster image looks fuzzy when reduced try using the Scale to Gray command to clarify it It s described in the Scaling to gray subsection a If the bilevel raster image is dense when reduced but has a white background try the Sample command to clarify it The subsection Sampling a dense raster image on page 104 gives details Scaling to gray 4 Some bilevel raster images look fuzzy due to scanning problems Try the Scale to Gray command to make the image more legible Note Activating Scale to Gray slows down image display To select or deselect Scale to Gray for the active raster image f Choose View Scale to Gray The black and white pixels are displayed as shades of gray Note that at scale factors of 1 00 or more Scale to Gray has no effect It also doesn t work on monochrome screens Sampling a dense raster image 8 104 Some bilevel raster images contain far more black areas than white areas making them very dense Try displaying only a sample of their pixels Note Activating sampling speeds up image display Oc View Station User Manual v To select or deselect sampling for the active raster image Choose View Sample When Sample is selected the image is displayed with fewer pixels Sample Sample Off On Note that at scale factors of 1 00 or more sampling has no effect If you have a
22. is not supported unsupported or unrecognized If possible translate the file to another supported format using a graphics program or a translation utility The Formats32 txt file lists all supported file formats This file is normally found in the Oc View Station folder You select a document listed at the bottom of the File menu and you get the message Cannot open document The document file has been moved or deleted since you last opened it Use the Open Documents dialog box to look for it Oc View Station User Manual gt When trying to open a Spicer Multipage das or a Spicer Multilayer Page clf you get a message saying the documents could not be loaded One of the component files was moved after the document was saved If you can return the component files to their original locations do so Otherwise you must reconstruct the document Consider using the Spicer Document smf format to avoid these problems gt You get a message that the file is corrupted or a bad file The file has been damaged somehow Try loading a backup of the file if one exists gt You get the message This image contains bad data Oc View Station s integrity may have been compromised Do you want to continue Yes No The file you are trying to open is seriously damaged If you open it Oc View Station may fail Most likely however the image will partially load correctly For inform
23. measurements of cut copy and erase areas while in Editing mode v To measure part of an image being edited 1 Q Choose Preference Measurements Editing Rasters 77 The Measurements floating window opens 2 Use the View Ribbon or Edit menu to select a Copy Cut or Erase tool The Mode description in the Measurements window changes to Editing The name and shape of the editing tool you selected appears in the Tool description 3 Cut copy or erase The measurement values of the edited area are displayed in the Measurements window For details on how to change the shape of an edit area see Rubout and Erase Area options on page 63 in Chapter 8 and Cutting and copying rasters on page 76 in this chapter Pasting rasters You can paste the area of the image that you last cut or copied You can also paste graphics from other Windows based programs The Edit Preferences define the default appearance of pastes You can change these for the active edit layer v To define pastes for the active edit layer 1 Choose Edit Options In the Edit Options dialog box 2 Click the Paste tab or category icon See Figure 30 Edit Options x Vg Rubout a Erase Area E Cut Copy Fr Paste Color MBA C Translucent Opaque Cancel Help 30 Edit Options dialog box Paste category 3 Select the foreground paste Color from the list for bilevel pastes only 78 Oc View Station User Manual 4 Select a
24. multipage document from all documents related to a particular drawing the original its revisions related accounting documents order forms quality assurance comments and so on To create a multipage document from existing files Choose File Open In the Open Documents dialog box Select the files to combine as one document Select the Open As Multipage check box Click Open or OK The separate files open into one document window This is a multipage document but it still has to be saved Choose File Save As Save the multipage document You now have a multipage document Changing pages The page buttons are located at the far right of the View Ribbon 42 Multipage documents are displayed as any other documents are except that a page number appears in the title bar of the document window Use the commands in the Page menu to view pages one at a time or go toa specific page In addition to the commands in the Page menu you can also select a page by name To select a page by name B Choose Page Contents The Multipage Contents dialog box appears See Figure 11 on page 43 in this chapter In the Multipage Contents dialog box click the name of the page to view Click OK The page whose name you selected is displayed Oc View Station User Manual You ll find detailed procedures about other ways of changing pages in Help Topics ia Multiple Page Documents A Changing pages Understand
25. size Otherwise To Fit is used 13 Scale options in the Print dialog box and as printed With this image that Tf you have selected Actual Size or No Scaling you can select Tile fits exactly on the page Fitto Width in the Options category to position the image on the printed pages a a has Tile defines the number of pages used to print large images at 1 1 or actual size will look the same ae k i 5 as To Fit Other When Tile is selected images larger than the paper size are printed in sections aee my ane on several sheets of paper When Tile is cleared only the part of the image that off at the top an 3 i bottom or onthe fits onto one sheet is printed the rest is cut off so only one sheet is used sides with these options F Tile When Tile is cleared you can select Center to center the image on Center each printed page Page sections Use the Print list depicted in Figure 14 to select what part of the page to print 48 Oc View Station User Manual Print Entire Page gt 14 Print list from the Print dialog box Entire Page prints the whole page regardless of zoom level As Displayed prints whatever is displayed within the document window boundary Orientation In the Page category of the Print dialog box the Orientation options depicted in Figure 15 define how the image is rotated on print Note that selecting Portrait or Landscape overrides the Windows Print Setup configuratio
26. such as its file name label size and type Compare attributes 130 RAM Random access memory The primary memory in a computer used by programs to perform tasks raster image data type consisting of dots also known as pixels that are turned on or off in bilevel rasters or are assigned a shade of gray or a color The dots are stacked into lines known as scan lines which are themselves stacked to form the image Created by scanning paper documents or in graphics programs rasterize To convert an original image and the pastes and erases above it into a new single raster image raster layer Layer containing a raster image It cannot contain vector objects or text documents reduce See zoom out Reset In Preference dialog boxes to restore the values last saved in other dialog boxes to select again Reset resize Change the size of shrink or enlarge Oc View Station User Manual resolution Drawing pixels or dots per unit of image in the horizontal and vertical directions Determines the fineness or coarseness of the image and affects the size of the file RGB Red green blue the components of color in raster pixels See color raster Ribbon bar See View Ribbon sampling Displaying only a sample of image pixels and discarding the others This is a view option within Oc View Station Use it to clarify dense bilevel images and to load them faster Sample Sample off on scale factor Ratio o
27. you to create new batches edit existing batches delete them and process them For details see the following subsections Defining a new batch 118 One of the main tasks of the Batch Manager is defining new batches for processing images To define a new batch In the Batch Manager dialog box see Figure 54 on page 118 1 Click New The Batch Setup dialog box appears See Figure 55 Oc View Station User Manual For details on selecting directories see Figure 52 on page 115 Batch Setup Ea Batch Name stcae 200571 250573 RMD GED Directories Input FAmput Browse Output F Ouiput Browse Failed Foiled Browse M Keep Original F keep Browse F Log File F BatchLog O Browse Thumbnails F Thumbneils 0 Browse Options M Override Commands in Images Command Setup M Process Batch During Time Window Start At 22 00 00 Stop At 23 00 00 55 Batch Setup dialog box where a batch is defined In the Batch Setup dialog box Type a Batch Name Select the Directories to use for the batch Note All of the directories used must already exist or you will receive an error message a In the Input text box type the directory from which to retrieve the images to be processed or select it using Browse In the Output text box type the directory in which to place the processed images or select it using Browse a In the Failed text box type the direc
28. 119 folders default 22 fonts banners 85 stamps 87 footers see banners formats txt file 24 72 freehand erasing 66 freezing detail window 34 full text search online help 18 function keys 136 fuzzy images clearing up 104 G grayscale rasters 10 inverting 37 printing 50 rasterizing 82 83 H hairlines displaying 106 107 half page print 48 headers see banners help using 18 highlighting freehand 66 hole filling 91 92 hole filling in batches 114 HOME key 136 horizontal fit applying to all pages 32 displaying at 33 horizontal resolution changing 99 on rasterize 83 properties 58 horizontal scroll bars 36 hpgl files 107 hyperlinks in help 18 el l imaging 10 12 imperial units 62 improving raster images 89 90 improving rasters images in batches 110 111 113 index tab in help 18 information documents 58 59 measurement 54 installation 16 integers 127 Index interface category 17 inverting images 37 38 K keyboard shortcuts see shortcut keys el L labels changing 59 stamping on images 87 landscape orientation applying to raster data 97 onprint 49 languages changing 17 layers 11 edit see edit layers properties 58 59 raster see rasters rasterizing 82 83 84 layout window 49 length crop areas 97 measuring 55 raster images 98 light prints correcting 50 line width window 64 linear measurements 55 links in help 18 loading documents 24 see also opening documents lo
29. 13 Why did my overnight batch not get processed You may have selected Process Selected Batches instead of Process Batches Then only batches you ve selected in the Batch Manager dialog box are processed Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Appendix A Glossary Some of the definitions included in this appendix are adapted from Moore s Imaging Dictionary by Andy Moore New York Telecom Library Inc 1993 still others from the Collins English Dictionary Second Edition 123 active multipage Active document that happens to be a multipage document See current multipage arc Object in the shape of an unbroken curved line Are E aspect ratio Relationship of width to height When aspect ratio is maintained the image is scaled proportionally When it is not the image is stretched vertically or horizontally when scaled background The part of the image that lies behind the color or black pixels in positive images vector objects or text Compare foreground banner Text string similar to a header or footer in a word processing program that can be rasterized with an image The banner appears outside the image boundaries Compare stamp batch A batch is a folder of files assigned specific clean up commands Batches allow you to automate repetitive tasks bilevel raster Black and white image Raster image in which data is stored as one data bit for one dot or pixel
30. 68 improving rasters 101 opening documents 24 25 printing 47 processing batches 122 rasterizing documents 84 true size applying to all pages 32 printing at 48 turning displayed images 36 images in batches 114 raster data 97 twips 133 types of documents 10 12 23 U undo 70 units of measurement Index custom 62 default 62 for measuring 56 57 58 line width 64 unsupported files 24 updating windows 38 user id stamping on images 87 user interface 17 V variables banners and stamps 85 87 vector pens 107 108 vector pens map file 51 vectors 11 inverting 37 optimizing display 107 speed 106 107 printing 50 processing in batches 110 111 113 122 rasterizing 82 83 84 vertical fit applying to all pages 32 displaying at 33 vertical resolution changing 99 on rasterize 83 properties 58 vertical scroll bars 36 view options and preferences 28 29 measurement 56 scale rotation 30 33 window 32 35 view ribbon 17 Ww watermarks see stamps white space removing 94 width fitting to window 33 object lines 63 rubout lines 63 vector pens 51 108 146 windows closing 19 25 default display 23 floating 33 34 54 64 main help 18 redrawing 38 secondary help 18 tiling 132 windows 3 1 14 windows 95 14 windows nt 14 wireframes displaying 106 107 Z zoom step defining 32 zooming 30 147 applying to all pages 32 in detail window 34 magnifying and reducing 32 reference wind
31. MO tif File Size 46 762 File Format TIFF LSB PackBits Header Format Tag Image File Format LSB Data Format PackBits Run Length Encoding z Colors 256 Color Image Mirror Off Rotation o Comment Dimensions r Tiles Width x 1 295 in Number 1 Length fv 0 985 Jin z Width pixels 259 X resolution 200 dpi Length pixels 197 resolution 200 dpi z Read Modify Delete Print Create Hide Cancel 25 Properties dialog box with a raster layer selected The next chapter deals with defining eraser tools Getting Information 59 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 8 Defining Eraser Tools You can define the appearance of rubout lines and erased areas before you draw them This chapter explains how You can also choose what units of measurement to use for defining objects 61 Units of measurement When defining the size of objects you can select various units of measurement You will likely want to use either imperial or metric units by default v To select a default unit of measurement 95 NT 1 Choose Preference System Click the Units tab The Units category appears See Figure 26 System Preferences Optimize Interface Page Size Units Services Measurement System 26 Units category of System Preferences In the dialog box 2 From the Measurement System list sele
32. Oc View Station Coa T User Manual Oc Technologies B V Trademarks Imagenation software Spicer Corporation 1991 1999 Microsoft MS and MS Word are registered trademarks and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation Hewlett Packard HP ME10 and HPGL are registered trademarks of Hewlett Packard Company Times New Roman Arial and Courier New typefaces The Monotype Corporation PCL Futura Book typeface Adobe Systems Incorporated AutoDesk and AutoCAD are registered trademarks of AutoDesk Inc Portions copyright Blue Sky Software All rights reserved Other brands and their products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be noted as such TechnologiesCopyright Oc Technologies B V Venlo The Netherlands 1999 All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced copied adapted or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Oc Oc Technologies B V makes no representation or warranties with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose Further Oc Technologies B V reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes Code number 7136535 Edition 2 0 Cus Table of Contents Chapter 1
33. Page Size tab 3 Select an existing size to base the new size on See Figure 44 on page 100 in this chapter Improving Raster Images 99 System Preferences Optimize Interface Page Size Units Services Add You can only Delete edit custom page sizes ANSI D Selected size Edit ANSIE ISO 440 ISO 2A0 Defaults ISO A3 x 11 x8 5 in Cancel Save Reset 44 Page Size category of System Preferences 4 Click Add The Edit Page Size dialog box appears See Figure 45 Edit Page Size Lx ANSI A Custom E x i Cancel Same name as selected size Same values as selected size 45 Edit Page Size dialog box 5 In the text box type the name of the new size 6 Type or select the width and length of the new size in the appropriate units Click OK 7 In the System Preferences dialog box click Save Click OK The page size you defined is now available for selection Tip You can restore the original list of standard page sizes by clicking the Y Defaults button in the Page Sizes category If you have added custom page sizes you will be asked if you want to delete them Click No to retain the custom sizes 100 Oc View Station User Manual Troubleshooting D Certain warning messages may appear when using the Raster menu commands More common ones are listed below with possible solutions Low Memory Warning You have x K of memory available Do you want
34. Setup dialog box v To use previously defined commands In the Command Setup dialog box 1 Click Load The standard Windows Open dialog box appears In the Open dialog box 2 Select the folder you want 3 Select the name of the command file to open it has an ini extension Click Open or OK The Command Setup dialog box appears with the commands defined in the selected file Managing batches A batch is simply a directory that contains documents which have been assigned particular commands By placing documents in a batch you can automate repetitive tasks and process large numbers of documents quickly With the Batch Manager dialog box you can define and control these automated tasks See Figure 54 Processing Images in Batches 117 Clean up stored images New Confidential stamps Convertfiles to bmp Edit 1 Oconverttiles to tif Date and Time banners Delete O Deskew O Generate thumbnails for image database Enable RADovemight clean up of scanned images RADovemight file conversions Disable Scan Station clean up Scan Station 9 clean up V Standardize images for archival Test O Weekend clean up for scanned images Batch processing is idle Process Batches Process Selected Batches Close 54 Batch Manager dialog box To view and manage batches n on Choose Batch Batch Manager The Batch Manager dialog box appears The Batch Manager displays all of the batches and allows
35. To change the shape of the area to cut or copy for the active edit layer 1 Choose Edit Options The Edit Options dialog box appears see Figure 29 2 If necessary select the Cut Copy tab or category icon 3 From the list select the Shape to use for the area Click OK Edit Options x d A Cut Copy Shape Box Sd Box Cancel Help 29 Cut Copy category in Edit Options showing Shape options The selected shape applies to the active edit layer To change the shape for future edit layers do the same procedure starting with Preference Edit v To copy an area of an image 1 Choose Edit Copy 76 Oc View Station User Manual The pointer changes to Sha 2 Draw the copy area in the selected shape Box Ellipse T i 2 al Drag Circle Polygon Click 1 Click 2 Double click Drag Click 4 Clk 3 The area is copied to the Clipboard The Copy command is no longer active The defined area remains visible Ly Note You can measure an area while you are cutting or copying it For details see Measuring while editing an image on page 77 in this chapter v To cut an area of an image 1 4 Choose Edit Cut The pointer changes to So 2 Draw the cut area in the selected shape The defined area is copied to the Clipboard and is filled with the background color which hides the underlying layers The Cut command is no longer active Measuring while editing an image You can take
36. a click Reset A progress indicator appears as the image is cropped The new cropped image is displayed Cropping automatically If you remove white space around the active bilevel raster image you end up with a smaller size image with no loss of significant data You can either remove all the white space or only enough to make the image smaller but keep it at a standard size such as A Size if using imperial units or A4 for metric Improving Raster Images 95 To remove all white space around the active bilevel raster image Choose Raster Crop Minimal A progress indicator appears as the image is cropped The new cropped image is displayed To crop the active raster to the smallest standard size Choose Raster Crop Auto A progress indicator appears as the image is cropped The new image is the smallest standard size possible without loss of significant data White space may be added if that s required to make it a standard size Cropping a raster to a specific size 96 You can crop the active raster image to a specific size To crop the active raster image to a specific size Choose Raster Crop To Size The Crop To Size dialog box appears See Figure 42 Crop To Size Lx Size z ain ef fo if 8 64 STET 10 86 in e _ 42 Crop To Size dialog box The crop size last selected is displayed when the dialog box first opens In the Crop To Size dialog box under
37. a page See Figure 2 Stacking these three layers Creates this single page W2x7 edt Abcd edt 1234 edt Wat1 clf 2 Page diagram Before You Begin 11 Pages in turn can also be combined A group of associated pages made up of single or stacked layers is called a multipage document Pages in multipage documents are normally displayed one at a time See Figure 3 B3c4 ras Page 2 Crank milpage 1 B3c4 raspage 2 E5f6 clfpage 3 E5f6 clf Page 3 Spicer Multipage das document as stored simplified Spicer Multipage document as opened 3 Representation of a multipage document What s new since Release 1 0 Several new features and commands have been added since the last User s Guide was published New feature Detailed information Support for viewing vector images and text documents Vectors and text documents in this chapter Bind Selection check box is now called Open As Multipage Opening documents on page 24 in Chapter 3 Left mouse button defines the zoom area in the Reference window and changes the display in the document window Zooming and scaling on page 30 in Chapter 4 Support for creating viewing and modifying multipage documents Chapter 5 Working with Multiple Pages on page 41 Print dialog box redesigned and includes page layout and print to file settings Windows 95 NT Overview Printing on page 46 in Chapter 6
38. according to the assigned commands deskew despeckle stamp and so on You can use batches to clean up many images at once change all files to a different format or create thumbnails for a series of images 109 Overview Two paths for processing images ee You can take different paths to achieve the same goal processing large numbers of images Outlined here are two approaches one interactive and one more automated to reach this goal The best approach combines elements of each method to suit your work environment The rest of the chapter explains the steps in each of these approaches in more detail Note All images are rasterized to bilevel rasters before processing Interactive path 110 Taking the interactive path allows you to practice cleaning up an image and to tailor clean up commands to specific image problems before submitting it and others like it to a batch for processing To interactively process images Use Oc Scan Station to scan the image and wait for it to appear in Oc View Station or Open an image to be processed For details see Opening documents on page 24 in Chapter 3 Choose Batch Command Setup The Command Setup dialog box appears In the Command Setup dialog box select the required image clean up and file options For an example see Figure 48 For details see Defining image improvements on page 113 in this chapter Click OK Oc View Station User Manu
39. al You can also apply clean up commands individually using the Raster menu For details see Command Setup Ea F Negate OK oe Cancel F Hole Fill Bi eae Load M Despeckle 7 7 F Auto Deskew Save M Rotation 180 F Crop Minimal M Stamp Options F Size Resolution Aie I Banner Options I Thumbnail New File Format Same as Original v Batch Directory C nput Browse 48 Command Setup dialog box with clean up options selected To see how these commands affect the image choose Batch Run Commands The image is rasterized to bilevel and the commands are carried out The new Chapter 14 R r Z 2 Improving Raster image appears in the active window Images on or page 89 2E Choose gE Batch Submit to Batch The image is sent to the Batch Directory You must define a batch for that directory unless you have sent the image to a directory that is already defined as a batch For details see Defining a new batch on page 118 in this chapter Now that the new image has the appearance you want you can apply the same settings to other images like it For a way to do this globally see the next subsection Batch path If you choose to use the Batch Manager directly to set processing options for all documents in a batch you must do some sorting up front Processing Images in Batches 111 112 To set options for all documents in a batch Sort the images into piles
40. an also select the area with the right mouse and choose Zoom from Y the context sensitive menu For details about the right mouse button see Appendix B on page 135 v To magnify a specific area of the image a Drag the pointer diagonally across the area to magnify The area that you selected is displayed See Figure 6 on page 31 in this chapter 30 Oc View Station User Manual 8 Butrfly bmp OT x Butfly bmp Drag the pointer diagonally across an area of the image and it is displayed 6 Mouse zoom procedure Note If you inadvertently release the mouse button after drawing a very small area it can seem that your image has suddenly become blank or all one color You have greatly magnified an area of one color Click or to zoom back out Using the Reference window to zoom v To display or hide the View Ribbon choose Preference View Ribbon You can also draw a zoom area in the Reference window Tip The Reference window always displays the entire image so we recommend using it to reduce a greatly magnified image or to move from one side of the image to the other To use the Reference window to zoom in and out If the Reference window is hidden click in the View Ribbon In the Reference window drag the pointer in a box shape around the area to magnify The selected area appears in the document window The Reference window continues to show the entire image whil
41. anning or redlining process object Base elements that make up edit layers They include cuts erases and pastes opaque Of solid color not translucent or transparent Opaque is an option for some object attributes operating system Windows UNIX and Macintosh are three different operating systems optimize To write or modify a program to achieve maximum efficiency in a specific area such as memory allocation options Used to change attributes for the active document or layer in the current session only See preferences page page refers to one or more stacked layers paper sizes U S Europe and Japan A 8 x 1l1in AO 84 1 x 118 9 cm B 11x17in A1 59 4 x 84 1 cm C 17x22in A2 42 0 x 59 4 cm D 22 x 34 in A3 29 7 x 42 0 cm E 34 x dd in A4 21 x 29 7 cm pixel The smallest element of a raster image one dot Abbreviation more or less of picture element Glossary 129 point typeset measurement equal to 1 72nd of an inch Points are typically used to measure text polylines Objects in the shape of joined straight lines You draw them by defining all the line end points Polyline preferences Generally used to change attributes for future documents or layers in the current and future sessions See defaults options preview image A reduced resolution view of a drawing that can be loaded and displayed before the main image is to decrease load time properties The characteristics of a file
42. at contains buttons representing commands available in the File Edit View Page Batch and Preference menus watermarks See stamps wireframe A closed object with no fill pattern Used to describe boxes polygons circles and ellipses with a transparent fill zoom in Enlarge the display size of the image so that can you see part of it in more detail Also called magnify zoom out Reduce the display size of a page so that you can see more of it As a result the image looks smaller and less detailed Also called reduce Glossary 133 134 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Appendix B Quick Reference This Appendix is a reference of the shortcuts available for both the keyboard and the mouse It contains two tables The first of these lists all commands that have shortcut keys The second lists other shortcut keys that you can use The Appendix also includes a brief description of the types of shortcuts enabled by the right mouse button 135 Keyboard shortcut keys Table B 1 lists all the commands for which shortcut keys are available Many shortcut keys are standard to Windows based programs Command Shortcut keys File Open sisi CTRL O Filg Saverne CTRL S Fil P INE rege ek une ne re CTRL P Edit UndG issus hinnititnnsset at CTRL Z Edit RedOne pna aa CTRL Y Edit Cubsin t anne CTRL X Edit Copy CTRL C Edit Paste sipose ntir A ene CTRL V Edit Rubout Line Width F12 Edit
43. ation about saving files with corrupted data see Correcting bad files on page 90 in Chapter 14 Closing documents You can close the window containing the active document or all document windows v To close the active document a Choose File Close The document window displaying the active document closes v To close all document windows a Choose File Close All All document windows close leaving the Oc View Station window empty For all procedures if any layers or pages have changed you are asked if you want to save the changes before closing For save procedures see Chapter 11 on page 71 Opening Documents 25 The next chapter outlines the options available for viewing pages in Oc View Station including zooming inverting and rotating images Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 4 Viewing Pages This chapter describes functions that you can use to view your documents None of them changes the document file though a document can be saved as viewed They just allow you to improve or alter the appearance of the images on your screen 27 Overview Using the View Options and Preferences The View Options View Options and View Preferences Preference View dialog boxes contain almost the same settings They do not however act on the document in the same way The View Options apply to the active document Use them to select several viewin
44. ccess to the Raster commands you can despeckle the image to clear it up For more information see Removing spots and filling holes on page 91 in Chapter 14 Optimizing raster speed As already noted optimizations are a trade off You can improve raster load Choose Preference and display speed but that sometimes affects image quality and uses more Spe Genie it memory You can reduce memory requirements but that tends to affect speed Through the System Preferences dialog box depicted in Figure 46 you can select various raster optimizations System Preferences Ea Optimize interface Page Size Units Services F Fast Scroll I Fast Display I Minimize Resources I Use Previews Image Size fi 024 46 Optimize category System Preferences dialog box Optimizing Image Display and Performance 105 Table 0 4 summarizes their effects Optimize settings Griniai taines Fast Fast Fast Minimize Use i Load Scroll Display Resources Previews Image display quality m m oO no effect oO Speed in general Mw a a a a Memory and speed a a a a M Memory and display o o o a o Loading speed Mw o o o Mw Viewing speed o z a o Mw If memory problems persist clear this option but leave the others selected The Use Previews option requires slightly more resources than the other speed optimizations 3g Table 0 4 Raster optimization combinations No
45. chapter explains what they are 53 Measuring For a description of the Measurements window fields press F1 and read the Help topic v You have a number of options for measuring You can measure a lines or areas on the image Measuring mode For details see the subsection below a the shapes of areas you are editing Editing mode For details see Measuring while editing an image on page 77 in Chapter 12 Measure values are displayed in the floating Measurements window The Measurements window can be in Viewing mode also as explained in the next subsection To measure part of an image Q Choose Preference Measurements The Measurements floating window opens See Figure 21 Measurements x Mode Measuring Tool Polygon Abs Coord 1 241 0 069 in Rel Coord r Points Seg Length Angle 0 de Rel Angle 0 de Perimeter D ir Area 0 inf Lists the mode the Measurements window is in and the tool being used to measure 21 Information in the Measurements window Use the default Tool listed in the Measurements window or a Right mouse click in the Measurements window From the menu that appears choose a tool Oc View Station User Manual 3 Trace along the line or area to measure Drag to draw SQ Polyli Click 1 Click 2 Click 4 Click 3 Double click Are Click 3 Click 1 Click 2 Circle Drag Ellipse Drag Polygon Click 1
46. ct System Windows default Imperial or Metric 3 Click Save Click OK In all dialog boxes units are reset to the selected default You can also define custom units as required For example you might want to measure in half inches or in decimeters For more information see Help Topics th Define Object Attributes Units 2 Creating custom units 62 Oc View Station User Manual Rubout and Erase Area options The Rubout and Erase Area commands are located in the Edit menu and their buttons are in the View Ribbon You can define their appearance v To define the attributes of Rubout and Erase Area 1 To define eraser attributes for the active edit layer choose Edit Options a To define eraser attributes for future edit layers choose Preference Edit The Edit Options or Edit Preferences dialog box appears normally with the Rubout category selected See Figure 27 Edit Preferences x Vg Rubout x Erase Area Hh Cut Copy E Paste Width H in v Cancel Save Reset Help 27 Edit Preferences settings 95 NT 2 In the Rubout category type or select the Width of the rubout line 3 Click the Erase Area tab or category icon From the E Shape list select the shape to use Box 4 In Edit Preferences click Save Click OK cee Ellipse Rubout and Erase Area are defined for the active Edit Options or for future Edit Preferences edit layers Rubout line width You can specify var
47. ct speed while changes to line widths and fills do Configuring vector pen lines Some vector files such as HPGL consist of eight pen types You can define the appearance of each pen line v To define vector pen lines 95 NT 1 Choose Preference File In the File Preferences dialog box 2 Click the Vector File Read Pens tab The Vector File Read Pens settings appear See Figure 47 on page 108 Optimizing Image Display and Performance 107 File Preferences Ea Input Output Storage Vector File Read Pens Penz Un BGreen Penso Un fMDvelow Pense n Meme E Cancel Save Reset Help 47 Vector File Read Pens settings 3 Type or select the width value select the units and select the color for Pen 1 through Pen 8 4 Click Save Click OK The pen settings apply to future vector documents They have no effect on the active document The next chapter explains how to perform batch operations on a set of images 108 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 16 Processing Images in Batches Matches which are simply folders or directories of files assigned specific commands allow you to automate repetitive tasks You can create a series of directories into which you place images Then with Oc View Station you can assign commands to the images in these directories When you process the batches images are taken from the batch directory and cleaned up
48. default rotation is defined by the Rotation setting in We the View Preferences dialog box Some raster files also gi 5 C 90 Cw have rotation values stored in their headers a CT C 90 CCW To rotate the image by 90 a For counter clockwise Le choose View Rotate 90 CCW a For clockwise r choose View Rotate 90 CW The image rotates 90 to the left or right around its center Using the Raster menu you can permanently change a raster image s rotation For more information see Rotating a raster image on page 97 in Chapter 14 Oc View Station User Manual Inverting image colors Inverting images means making black parts of the image white and white parts of the image black See Figure 10 on page 37 for an example With color and grayscale rasters typically only the background gets changed because these images contain mostly gray or color pixels with few black or white ones DEN INF ANT ee 10 Image before and after being inverted The Invert check box in the View Preferences dialog box defines the inversion of images on open ra Tip If you most often view complex vector images you may want to select Invert by default as these images look better with a black background v To invert an image yd Choose View Invert The black and white parts of the image are reversed Displaying a negative image The negative of a bilevel raster image is similar to that of a photograph s
49. dow From the menu that appears choose Calibrate The Line tool is automatically activated 2 Drag the pointer along a line on the image that represents a known distance The Measurement Calibration dialog box appears See Figure 23 Getting Information 57 Measurement Calibration x Length Measured 0 336 in gt Calibrate To 0 33 in v Enter the value and unitto calibrate the length to Cancel Help 23 Dialog box used to calibrate units In the Measurement Calibration dialog box 3 Select the unit to use for the Length Measured 4 Select the unit to use for the scale you are setting 5 Type or select the Calibrate To value the value to attribute to the measured length Click OK All future measurements you take of the image in this session will be based on your calibrated value To revert to the default measurements choose Reset from the Measurements window menu Getting document information You can find out the properties of any type of document multipage page or layer in the active window The information provided includes file size data format image dimension and resolution v To view file information about the active document 1 Choose File Properties The Properties dialog box appears See Figure 24 Properties for selected document Label Demo Set E D001 File Name DEMO SMF Only file pe File Size 217 634 iprormat
50. e an image Choose Raster Rasterize The Rasterize dialog box appears See Figure 31 Page Range Color Bilevel gt Brightness ou Size Current E 8 x Hifa in J Resolution M Override Current Resolution foo dpi Cancel 31 Rasterize dialog box In the Rasterize dialog box select the options that you want to use For details on these see the following subsections Click OK A progress indicator appears as the original image and markups are combined into a new raster image If you changed no options the new image has the same number of colors as the original and is the same size and resolution The following subsections explain the Page Range Color and Brightness options You can also change the size and resolution of the image as you Oc View Station User Manual rasterize it For more information about that see Help Topics Modify Layers Rasterizing layers Pages Use the Page Range list of the Rasterize dialog box depicted in Figure 32 to select what pages to rasterize Page Range Current Page Current View 32 Page Range list from the Rasterize dialog box a To rasterize the current page only use Current Page a To rasterize all pages in the window use All Pages a To rasterize only what is displayed within the window boundary use Current View Colors Use the Color list depicted in Figure 33 to select how man
51. e its crossed box indicates what section of the image appears in the document window Viewing Pages 31 Magnifying and reducing the image You can magnify or reduce the image by successive steps v To magnify the image by one zoom step n Cr Choose View Magnify The image is magnified by one zoom step around its displayed center v To reduce the image by one zoom step Choose View Reduce The image is reduced by one zoom step around its displayed center In the 95 NT version you can change the size of the zoom step using the Window category of View Options or View Preferences See Figure 7 The Zoom Step Size value is expressed as the amount of the current view by which to magnify or reduce the image For example 2 25 times the current view or 1 2 25ths of the current view View Options Scsle Rotation Display Window Scroll Bars F Vertical Step Size 15 The Zoom Step Size setting affects how the Magnify and Reduce commands work Zoom Step Size 2 25 x 7 Window category of View Options Applying scaling to all pages of a document You can make whatever scale factor you select for the current page apply to all pages in the document without using the Set All button each time 32 Oc View Station User Manual v To apply scaling to all pages in a document 1 Choose View Options 2 Inthe View Options dialog box select the Apply to All mn Pages check box Click OK Me
52. ecifically request another one See preferences and options deskewing Straightening a crooked raster image despeckling Removing unwanted black specks or white holes from a raster image See noise dither To simulate gray or color in a bilevel image with a particular pixel pattern Sample dither pattern F ES document types Classification of documents according to the data they contain Oc View Station can read raster vector and text document types in Glossary 125 certain formats Raster files are made up of dots vector files of objects and equations and text files of text with formatting dpcm dpi dp dots per cm centimeter i inch Each is a measure of image resolution See resolution edit layer A layer that can contain vector objects raster pastes and the text from text documents but not full raster images editing Performing functions found in the Edit and Raster menus such as erasing cutting despeckling and deskewing embedded pages One or more pages contained within a multipage document at a lower more subordinate level than other pages Child page enclosing multipage Multipage document that contains embedded pages Parent document Esc Escape key generally used to cancel operations extents image Limits or edges of an image 126 file format The way the information is stored in a document Often indicated by file name extensions such as dxf pdf or mil floating windows Small
53. ed when the image is reduced Reduced negative images look darker than reduced inverted ones Inversion can be applied to any image Hey og jponser Inversion off Inversion on Glossary 127 K Acronym of kilobyte Literally this means 1 000 bytes but to a computer it is actually 1 024 bytes keyboard shortcuts See shortcut keys layer Every image in Oc View Station appears on a layer Layers are two dimensional planes that can be overlaid on one another Raster layers contain raster data only Edit layers can contain vector objects raster pastes and text documents magnify See zoom in MB Acronym for MegaByte which literally means one million bytes but precisely represents 1024 kilobytes monochrome An image or screen having only background and foreground colors Same as black and white or bilevel multilayer page Document file made up of one page containing two or more layers Multiple layer page multipage document Document file made up of more than one page Multiple page document 128 negative image Image in which a pixel value of 0 represents the image data and a pixel value of 1 represents the background Negative images often appear black when reduced because the 0 bits are discarded for display Text and vector files are not made up of pixels and so cannot be negative Oc View Station User Manual Negative Off Negative On noise Irrelevant specks or marks added to images in the sc
54. ee te ALEAJSS Now any magnification level you set for the current page To Fit 1 1 scale factor and so on is automatically applied to all pages in the document Further zooming and scaling options You can also zoom and scale by a Fitting the image to the window a Fitting the image horizontally or vertically to the window a Displaying the image at 1 1 or another scale factor a Magnifying the image by one zoom step a Reducing the image by one zoom step a Displaying the image at its actual size For detailed procedures see Oc View Station Help Topics i View Pages Qi Zooming and Scaling Getting a detailed view of the image To see details of the image without magnifying the image itself use the floating Detail window It shows a magnified view of the pointer location See Figure 8 pe X 8 Detail window pointer LS Note If the main image is magnified in the document window then the Detail window display may actually be smaller than the image Viewing Pages 33 v To display or hide the Detail window N Choose Preference Detail If displayed when you quit Oc View Station the Detail window normally appears at the same size and position the next time you start Oc View Station The Detail window displays the pointer location at a predefined scale factor often 1 1 You can magnify or reduce the Detail window view v To change the scale factor of the Detail window 1 Right click in
55. en 95 NT appears at the end of the first line of the instructions Windows 3 1 users should refer to the corresponding Oc View Station Help topic Any text you have to type appears in Courier bold Keys you have to press F1 CTRL are in SMALL CAPS Menus commands and dialog box items are capitalized Commands appear this way P Choose File Open This means that you can click the button shown or click the menu File and then click the command name Open Keyboard shortcuts are listed in Appendix B The next chapter explains how to get started with Oc View Station Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 2 Getting Started This chapter contains information to get you on your way It describes how to install the product and how to start it It explains how to use the Oc View Station Help file And it gives the quit procedure Installing Oc View Station MB megabytes RAM random access memory VGA video graphics array We recommend the following system configuration Oc View Station 95 NT Microsoft Windows 95 or better or NT 4 0 or better personal computer 386 or better 8 MB RAM a CD ROM drive 10 MB free disk or network space mouse track ball or touch screen a VGA monitor You install Oc View Station by running its installation program To install Oc View Station for Windows 95 NT Start Windows if it is not already running
56. ent windows 95 NT Choose Preference View In the View Preferences dialog box Click the Window tab Under Layout click Cascaded or Maximized Layout Cascaded Click Save Click OK C Maximized The next documents you open will have the selected display You can also change the display of the current document windows by cascading or tiling them all except those that are minimized Opening Documents 23 Opening documents You can open existing documents into Oc View PF Open as Multipage Station as many as memory allows When you open two or more at once you have the option of opening them all into one window or each into separate windows Select the Open As Multipage check box to open all documents into one window The specified documents open into one or several windows which are either maximized or cascaded Troubleshooting ay 24 You try to open a document and instead get a system message Or you open the document but it looks different than you expected it to This section covers the most common problems in document loading and tells you what to do about them You can t open a color or grayscale raster The image may be too big This almost never occurs with bilevel rasters but width limits are lower for color and grayscale images If possible reduce the number of colors in the image with a graphics program before trying to load it again You get a message that the document
57. f screen pixels to image pixels scrolling Moving the image around the window to see different parts of it without scaling the image select To mark an item so that an action can be carried out on it You usually select an item by clicking it or by pressing a key After selecting an item you choose the action that you want to affect it such as OK Selected check box M Tile session The period of time in which Oc View Station is running shortcut keys Keyboard combinations that allow you to choose commands without using the mouse or the access keys slider A control that lets you set a value on a continuous range of possible values Light Dark speckle A collection of extraneous black pixels on a raster image Glossary 131 Spicer Document smf A file that can contain all the image data for any number of pages When opened Spicer Documents are displayed in one window Spicer defined format Spicer Vector edt Files in the Spicer defined vector format They usually have an edt for edit extension stamps A text string that can be placed behind an image The stamp appears within image boundaries It can be combined with an image Compare banner submenu A hierarchical or child menu 132 tab In Windows 95 and NT 4 0 part of a tabbed dialog box that you click to view different categories In text documents a predefined text indent text document A document file that contains text and sometimes f
58. ferences in this session you are asked if you want to save them Choose Yes to use your current preferences as defaults for the next session Otherwise choose No All the document windows and the Oc View Station window close The next chapter explains in more detail how to open documents Getting Started 19 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 3 Opening Documents This chapter explains the various ways you can open documents It also explains how to solve problems that may occur when loading documents and how to set open defaults 21 Setting open defaults 22 In the Open Documents dialog box a directory path and document type are displayed by default For each available document type certain extensions are suggested You can change any of these defaults To define the default open extensions 95 NT Choose Preference File The File Preferences dialog box appears displaying the Input category See Figure 4 File Preferences Ea Input Output Storage Vector File Read Pens Open File Type ANN E Sets JS SEL Multipages Multilayers DOC DAS SMF CDS CLF ts Vector Files JEDTOXFDWGPLT 000 Raster Files M TIF Text Files xT BAT INI WP DOC RTF Symbol Files 58L sSSCid Extensions Cancel Save Reset Help 4 Input category of the File Preferences dialog box In the dialog box add to or delete any of the extensions us
59. g 91 92 drawing 65 boxes 66 circles 67 crop areas 95 deskew areas 93 94 ellipses 67 erased areas 66 67 measure areas 54 77 78 polygons 67 68 rubouts 66 sketches 66 troubleshooting 68 zoom areas 30 ee E edit layers see also vectors rasterizing 82 83 84 edit options and preferences 63 cut copy 76 erase area 63 paste 78 79 rubout 63 editing batches 120 editing rasters 90 editing rasters in batches 113 114 editing measuring area 77 ellipse shape 63 ellipses drawing 67 embedded pages 43 END key 136 ending the oc view station session 19 enlarging images see zooming erasing areas 63 66 67 lines 66 measuring area 77 error messages 24 101 141 Oc View Station User Manual ESC key 68 exiting from oc view station 19 extensions filename 22 73 F file formats see also individual file format names converting in batches 115 selecting default 22 73 supported 24 tips for selecting 72 file name extensions 22 73 file names stamping on images 87 file preferences input 22 output 73 storage 23 file types see document types files default directory 22 opening 24 processing in batches 109 properties 58 59 saving 71 filling holes inimages 91 92 filling holes in images in batches 114 finding help topics 18 fitting to page on print 48 fitting to page on view 33 floating windows detail 33 34 line width 64 measurements 54 reference 31 34 folders default 22 folders batch 115
60. g Information Measuring 54 Changing the Measurements window units 56 Copying measurement values 56 Changing the default measurement options 56 Calibrating measurements 57 Oc View Station User Manual Getting document information 58 Chapter 8 Defining Eraser Tools Units of measurement 62 Rubout and Erase Area options 63 Rubout line width 63 Chapter 9 Drawing Objects Freehand erasing 66 Drawing boxes 66 Drawing circles and ellipses 67 Drawing polygons 67 Troubleshooting Erasing 68 Chapter 10 Modifying Objects Undoing object placement 70 Chapter 11 Saving Documents Doing a basic save 72 Saving the document with new properties 72 Selecting file formats 72 Chapter 12 Editing Rasters Cutting and copying rasters 76 Measuring while editing an image 77 Pasting rasters 78 Chapter 13 Rasterizing Images Rasterizing images 82 Pages 83 Table of contents Colors 83 Troubleshooting 84 Making banners or stamps part of the image 84 Combining banners 84 Combining stamps 86 Chapter 14 Improving Raster Images Overview Improving raster images 90 Correcting bad files 90 Making a negative image positive 91 Removing spots and filling holes 91 Deskewing an image 92 Cropping araster 94 Drawing the crop area 95 Cropping automatically 95 Cropping a raster to a specific size 96 Correcting a mirrored raster 97 Rotating a raster image 97 Resizing araster 97 Defining custom page sizes 99 Troubleshooting 101
61. g Raster Images on page 89 Making banners or stamps part of the image A banner is text similar to a header or footer that appears in the top or bottom margins of each page outside image boundaries Using the Raster Banner command you can oy make them a permanent part of the image Banner Banner A stamp is text that appears on a page within image boundaries Stamps can be angled diagonally on the page Stamp centered or placed near the top or bottom of the image Using 5 the Raster Stamp command you can also make stamps a Sta permanent part of the image Combining banners You can combine a banner with the current page or with all pages in a document to create new raster images 84 Oc View Station User Manual To combine a banner with the image 1 Choose Raster Banner Current Page to combine the banner with the current page or Choose Raster Banner All Pages to combine the banner with all pages in a multipage document The Banner dialog box appears See Figure 34 Size fio pts v K Font Times New Roman Cancel Help rie Center Typed text Technical Reference Page variables Banner Variables Pages v r Bottom Center Right Left a E pe 34 Banner dialog box with sample text In the Banner dialog box 2 Type or select the banner Size 3 Select the Font to use All banner text mu
62. g options at once or to change the display of all the pages in the window instead of just the current one By contrast the View Preferences define options for future documents and have no effect on the active document Use the Preferences to set viewing defaults For example if you are always inverting images after opening them select the Invert check box in View Preferences to make all images open as inverted The View Options and Preferences settings are divided into categories as shown in Figure 5 on page 29 Press F1 for a help topic that describes each setting To change the View Options of the active document 95 NT Choose View Options The View Options dialog box appears See Figure 5 on page 29 Oc View Station User Manual One advantage to View Options is that you can apply settings to all pages The View menu commands only apply to the current page a fF ND View Options x Scale Rotation Display Window eq Click tabs to change Scale m Rotation categories co Horizontal Fit C 90 CW C Vertical Fit C 180 C Actual Size C 90 CCW oe C Factor F 75 x 0 01 100 This button applies View Options to all pages in the document T Apply to All Pages Cancel Set All Help 5 View Options dialog box Scale Rotation category In the View Options dialog box Click the tab that contains the settings to change In that category select the
63. g two or more documents with Open as Multipage selected v To save the active document with specific file properties 1 Choose File Save As The standard Windows Save dialog box appears In the File Save As dialog box 2 Select the folder to save the document in 3 Type the File name to use retaining the file name extension 4 From the Files of Type list select the file format to use This may change the extension 5 Click Save The document is saved with the properties you selected Selecting file formats When you save a document you have the option of converting it to a different file format Refer to the Formats32 txt file for a list of all supported ones 72 Oc View Station User Manual When choosing a format consider that raw or uncompressed raster formats take up more disk space than the compressed ones sometimes much more When you change the file format the extension gets changed automatically We recommend that you not overwrite the assigned extension Using standard file name extensions ensures that file associations work properly You can specify which formats are used by default To define the default file formats for raster images 95 NT Choose Preference File In the File Preferences dialog box Click the Output tab See Figure 28 File Preferences Ea Input Output Storage Vector File Read Pens Formats Raster Files Ila TIFF LSB CCITT G4 M Color Raster Files
64. ges with borders Try the other method if the image is line art with no straight edges To automatically deskew the active raster image a Choose Raster Deskew Auto A progress indicator appears Either a new straightened raster image is displayed or you get a message that the image could not be deskewed If the operation fails either the image is already straight or the deskew value could not be calculated because of image quality In that case try the next procedure To deskew the active raster image by drawing the skew angle Choose Raster Deskew User Defined The Deskew dialog box appears See Figure 38 A positive angle skews the image counter clockwise Cancel Skew Range Available 10 Set Angle Suggest Defauit skew o lt angle is 0 Current Skew Angle 38 Deskew dialog box as it first opens In the Deskew dialog box click Set Angle The pointer changes to 4 On the current page Select a crooked line on the image See Figure 39 Click one end of this line and move the pointer toward the other end As you move the pointer it draws a red triangle with a 90 angle Its straight side represents the correcting line Click the end point of the crooked line Improving Raster Images 93 Triangle my Cam Fm EEE i 39 Drawing a deskew angle If the deskew angle drawn is within the allowed range the Deskew dialog box reappears this time displaying the va
65. gging batch processing 119 M magnifying images 32 see also zooming managing batches 117 118 see also batches manual conventions 14 map file vector pens 51 margins printing 50 marking up images 65 142 maximized windows 23 measurements window defining defaults 56 57 measuring 54 calibrating 57 58 copying values 56 in editing mode 77 in measuring mode 54 in viewing mode 55 units 56 memory 47 merging see rasterizing metric units 62 mirroring images in batches 114 on display 39 raster data 90 97 mistakes in drawing 68 monochrome printers 50 mouse zoom 30 multipages 12 41 banners 85 contents 42 creating 42 default format 73 embedded pages 43 properties 58 59 stamps 86 viewing 42 43 N negative images converting 90 91 converting in batches 114 displaying 37 38 106 new batches defining 118 120 new multipages creating 42 new page sizes 99 new rasters creating 82 83 84 new units of measurement 62 noise removing 38 91 notes 14 numbering pages 87 tiles 87 143 Oc View Station User Manual 0 objects see also individual object names drawing 65 modifying 69 oc view station help finding topics 18 links 18 tab options 18 windows 18 one to one scale ratio applying to all pages 32 printing at 48 online help 13 17 finding topics 18 links 18 windows 18 opaque pastes 79 open as multipage 42 open as multipage 24 opening documents 24 bad files 25 as multipages 42 setting defa
66. gon shape 1 P Choose Edit Erase Area Note The Status Bar states what shape is selected If it doesn t say polygon you first have to change the shape selected for the tool For more information see Rubout and Erase Area options on page 63 Drawing Objects 67 2 Click to draw Click 2 Click 1 Glika Click 4 Double click If you have already placed all corner points right click instead The polygon appears on the edit layer The Erase Area tool remains active so you can draw more polygons Troubleshooting Erasing D Certain problems can occur when erasing Here is a list of the most common ones and their solutions gt How do I cancel an erase that I ve started to draw Press ESC before the object is completed gt How do I get rid of an erase that I just placed Choose Edit Undo gt How do I deactivate an eraser Either choose another tool or choose the active tool command or button again gt How do I place eraser points more accurately Draw while the image is displayed at a 1 1 scale Choose View 1 1 Or use the Detail window as a guide while drawing For details see Getting a detailed view of the image on page 33 in Chapter 4 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 10 Modifying Objects You can undo and redo the placement of erases and pastes on the image This chapter explains how Undoing object placement
67. ight in the window Some Index entries lead directly to a help topic Others give you a choice of topics and you can select the one to display A full text search option is available under the Find tab Be careful not to specify common words or you ll retrieve a long list of topics Note that the full text search has to be compiled the first time you use it Links Most topics contain hyperlinks to other topics Hyperlinks are normally indicated by green underlining although occasionally normal text is hyperlinked You can recognize that by the context and by the fact that the pointer changes shape when over a hyperlink Hyperlinks may be pop ups or they may lead to other topics These other topics may appear in the main Help window which is larger and has a menu bar or in a secondary window which is smaller and floats beside the main window Note that different types of secondary windows are used as indicated by the window s title bar You can go Back to a secondary window of the same type but not to one of a different type Oc View Station User Manual Quitting Oc View Station You can quit Oc View Station using a standard Windows procedure v To quit Oc View Station 1 Choose File Exit 2 If any documents have changed you are asked if you want to save them Choose Yes and follow the save procedure discussed in Chapter 11 on page 72 or No to quit without saving 3 If you have changed any pre
68. ing embedded pages A multipage document can contain other embedded multipages Embedded multipages are one or more pages contained within another multipage document at a lower more subordinate level Pages become embedded within other pages when you open a multipage document or text document with the Open As Multipage check box selected Normally you want to avoid embedded pages by ensuring that the Open As Multipage check box is cleared when opening documents Use the Multipage Contents dialog box to see the structure of all pages in the window whether embedded or enclosing See Figure 11 on page 43 Multipage Contents x Document Drawing 981202 Ch 2 ons Cancel Ch 3 Reviews Ch 4 Final Copy Embedded multipages are indicated by a plus sign Double click the embedded multipage name to reveal its pages Expanded multipages are indicated by a minus sign 11 Multipage Contents dialog box for a multipage with embedded pages The next chapter describes how to print your documents Imaging systems are most useful when you can use them to share information Working with Multiple Pages 43 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 6 Printing The basic purpose of an imaging system is to share information In keeping with that goal you can use Oc View Station to print a document This chapter explains how to make the best use of this feature 45 Overview
69. ing subsections Setting file options You can set two file options through the Command Setup dialog box directory and format You must set the Batch Directory to which the image is sent unless you are defining the commands globally through the Batch Setup dialog box You can also convert the image from one file format to another v To set file options for the image In the Command Setup dialog box see Figure 51 on page 114 1 From the list select a New File Format if required 2 Inthe Batch Directory text box type a directory to which the image will be sent for later processing or select it using the Browse button See Figure 52 Select Directory Folders selected directory machb4 i 52 Select Directory dialog box The selected directory has an open folder symbol beside it The image is sent to the defined Batch Directory when you submit it to the batch The file format changes when the batch is processed Setting thumbnail options For each image you can create a thumbnail A thumbnail is a smaller version of the original image v To define a thumbnail In the Command Setup dialog box see Figure 51 on page 114 1 Select the Thumbnail check box Click Options The Thumbnail dialog box appears See Figure 53 Processing Images in Batches 115 Thumbnail x Size f x f in Resolution Hfi api z File Format ACCESS Group 4 acc n
70. ing the asterisk as a wildcard character Leave a space between each extension Tip You can type up to eight extensions in each text box If you leave any text boxes blank that document type will not appear for selection Click Save Click OK The selected extensions are used for the next document you open or import To define the default open directory 95 NT Choose Preference File Oc View Station User Manual Maximized windows fill the workspace Cascaded windows overlap In the File Preferences dialog box Click the Storage tab In the Image Directory text box type the directory path to use by default or select it by clicking Browse For example Image Directory c Image S amples Browse Click Save Click OK The selected directory will be used for the next document that you open or import Note The directory you define is also used by default for saving To define the default open document type Choose Preference File In the Input category of the File Preferences dialog box see Figure 4 on page 22 in this chapter From the Open File Type list select which Fc i document type to list by default Click Save Click OK That document type will be listed by default in Files of type lists When document windows are first opened they are either cascaded overlapping or maximized filling the workspace Choose the default display that you prefer To change the default display of docum
71. ious widths for your rubout lines v To change line widths 1 Choose Edit Rubout 2 Choose siff Edit Rubout Line Width Defining Eraser Tools 63 The floating Line Width window appears In the Line Width window click the triangle at the appropriate line width or drag the red line into place Rub out the area The rubout appears with the selected line width Note Jf the View Hairline command is active all object lines appear as being 1 screen pixel thick at all scale factors Deactivate this command to see the various widths To change the Line Width window units Right mouse click in the Line Width window From the menu that appears choose the name of the unit to use ET The units selected are displayed in the Line Width ft window title bar gu cm m The next chapter explains how to draw rubouts and pts twips erased areas Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 9 Drawing Objects The previous chapter explained how to define the appearance of rubouts and erased areas This chapter explains how to draw them 65 Freehand erasing Rubout lines are always background color and opaque Use them to hide part of the image L Note Unlike in programs such as Paint Rubout does not actually remove the image data Instead it hides it by placing a cover or object over the image that is the same as the background color v To freehand erase 1 2 Choose Ed
72. it Rubout 2 Drag the pointer to draw SQ The drawn lines appear on the page The Rubout tool remains active so you can continue freehand erasing Drawing boxes You can draw box shaped erased areas that hide a region of the image v To draw a box shape 1 NY Choose Edit Erase Area Note The Status Bar states what shape is selected If it doesn t say box you L first have to change the shape selected for the tool For more information see Rubout and Erase Area options on page 63 2 Drag the pointer The erase box appears on the layer The Erase Area tool remains active so you can draw other boxes 66 Oc View Station User Manual Drawing circles and ellipses You can draw circle shaped or ellipse shaped erased areas that hide a region of the image v To draw a circle or an ellipse 1 Re Choose Edit Erase Area LS Note The Status Bar states what shape is selected If it doesn t say circle r ellipse you first have to change the shape selected for the tool For more ne see Rubout and Erase Area options on page 63 2 Drag the pointer from the center ee Drag The circle or ellipse appears The Erase Area tool remains active so you can draw other circles or ellipses Drawing polygons Polygons closed objects bounded by three or more straight sides are useful for outlining an irregular object Erase Area polygons always have an erase fill v To draw a poly
73. ized The new resized image that its size is is displayed different than the original s R You can also change the image resolution in the Resize dialog box v To change the active raster s resolution 1 Choose Raster Resize 98 Oc View Station User Manual In the Resize dialog box see Figure 43 on page 98 under Resolution 2 Select the Override Current Resolution check box 3 To keep the horizontal and vertical resolutions the same select the Identical Resolutions check box To allow differences clear the check box 4 Type or select the horizontal resolution for the new image 3 Tip If the image is being enlarged or was enlarged you may want to increase Y the resolution If the file size is larger than you d like you can lower the resolution This makes the image fuzzier and less detailed than the original 5 If the Identical Resolutions check box is cleared type or select a vertical resolution value 6 You can resize the image as described in the previous procedure or select Current under Size to keep it the same Click OK A progress indicator appears The new image is of the resolution and size that you specified Defining custom page sizes You can define custom page sizes which then become available in the Size lists of the Resize Rasterize and Crop To Size dialog boxes v To create a new page size 95 NT 1 Choose Preference System In the System Preferences dialog box 2 Click the
74. lon EAF i appears for J Untitled Page 10 File Format Spicer Document Single File se A D004 RER and pages 24 Properties dialog box with a multipage selected 58 Oc View Station User Manual The plus sign indicates that some 2 layers or pages in the document are hidden The minus sign indicates that the names of all components are 3 displayed File information image information image size and resolution Tile number and size In the Properties dialog box If required expand the multipages or pages Double click the names of the items with a plus sign in front of them to reveal the names of their component pages or layers The plus sign changes to a minus sign Click the name of the multipage page or layer whose information you want to view The Properties dialog box reveals different amounts and types of information depending on the type of file that is selected Figure 25 on page 59 shows how it looks with a raster selected You can change the document s label For rasters you can change the Rotation or add Comments For more information about the fields in the Properties dialog box press F1 and read the Help topic Repeat from step 3 as required When finished click OK Normal display returns Any file properties you changed are used by default when you save the document Properties for selected raster layer Label DEMO tif File Name DE
75. lso set certain scroll options v To define the initial position of images 95 NT 1 Choose Preference View In the View Preferences dialog box 2 Click the Window tab 3 Click the section of the Position grid that represents the part Pposton of the image to display initially top right center bottom middle and so on HeH 4 Click Save Click OK The documents you open next will be at the selected position The Fit scale settings override the Position setting Viewing Pages 35 The Horizontal and Vertical check boxes under Scroll Bars define whether or not document windows have scroll bars Unless Vertical you requite the extra space display the bars Step Size is a The Step Size text box under Scroll Bars defines how much the image moves when you click the scroll arrows Its value is a percentage of current view Scroll Bars Note Remember to use View Options for the active document and View Preferences for future documents To scroll using the Reference window If the Reference window is hidden click KY in the View Ribbon In the Reference window click the area to view The crossed box automatically moves to the selected area and the area is displayed in the document window as in Figure 9 on page 35 in this chapter Rotating an image Some images may open on their sides or upside down You can turn them You can also rotate images to make them fit better in the window The
76. lue of the skew angle drawn See Figure 40 Otherwise you can redraw the triangle positive angle skews the image counter clockwise Cancel Skew Range Available 10 Set Angle Suggest Current Skew Angle 5 19 4 40 Deskew dialog box after setting the skew angle Skew angle is no longer zero 5 In the Deskew dialog box click OK A progress indicator appears as the image is deskewed The new straightened image is displayed Two other deskew methods are available For details refer to Help Topics Improve Raster Images 2 Overview Deskewing an image Cropping a raster Cropping means creating a new raster image from part of the active raster image See Figure 41 94 Oc View Station User Manual 41 Cropping operation Four crop methods are available a Drawing the crop area Cropping automatically to minimum size Cropping automatically to standard size Cropping to a specific size Each method is explained in the following subsections Drawing the crop area You can draw the crop area on the active raster image v To draw a crop area on the active raster image 1 Choose Raster Crop Set Region The pointer changes to 4 2 Drag the pointer from one corner of the crop area to its diagonal corner A block appears over the area that you defined 3 In the Verify Crop Region dialog box click OK To redraw the are
77. mats 73 opening 24 processing in batches 110 111 113 rasterizing banners 84 85 images in batches 110 layers 82 83 84 on print 50 stamps 84 87 rasters 10 11 changing resolution 98 cropping 90 94 96 97 deskewing 90 92 94 despeckling 91 92 displaying 104 improving 89 90 mirroring 90 97 negating 90 91 optimizing display 104 speed 105 106 processing in batches 110 111 113 properties 58 59 resizing 90 97 98 rotating 90 degrees 90 97 readme file 16 real size applying to all pages 32 printing at 48 red green blue see rgb redlining images 65 see also drawing redo 70 144 redrawing windows 38 reducing images 32 see also zooming reference window displaying and hiding 34 35 scrolling 36 zooming 31 reflecting images 39 refresh see redrawing windows related publications 13 relative measure 57 58 removing document windows see closing windows resizing rasters 90 97 resizing rasters in batches 114 resolution batch images 114 changing 90 98 101 on rasterize 83 reusing batch commands 116 117 rgb 11 131 see also color right mouse button shortcuts 138 zoom 30 rotating batch images 114 pages 90 degrees 36 rasters 90 degrees 59 90 97 rubout defining width 63 drawing 66 S sampling images 104 106 saving batch commands 116 117 saving documents 71 modified 72 selecting formats 72 setting defaults 73 scale factor for display 30 scale in detail window 34 scaling LT 533 actual si
78. n Orientation A Portrait AJC Landscape is Best Fit rS ik Minimum Length x 2e As Set by Printer Driver With the Best Fit option either Portrait or Landscape is used whichever provides the best fit Minimum Length is often similar to Landscape the image is rotated to minimize the page length used As Set by Printer Driver uses the Windows print options Portrait Landscape 15 Orientation options in the Print dialog box and as printedX Page grouping In the Page category of the Print dialog box the page 2 Up option grouping option depicted in Figure 16 specifies how many Portrait pages of your document to print on one piece of paper For example 2 Up prints two pages on one piece of paper dividing the paper in half The Layout window in the Print dialog box displays the results of your selection Printing 49 it a 1 16 Page grouping options in the Page category of the Print dialog box Margins In the Page category of the Print dialog box type the margin measurements depicted in Figure 17 using the current system units to surround your document The Layout window in the corner of the dialog box illustrates the options you select m Margins cm Layout _ Left ja Right E Top Bottom 17 Margin options in the Page category of the Print dialog box Color In the Options category use the Raste
79. ng attributes 76 measuring area 77 rasters 76 77 correcting drawing mistakes 68 image problems 90 raster display 104 corrupted files 25 90 counter clockwise rotation 36 97 crooked images correcting 92 cropping 94 automatically 95 96 Index in batches 114 drawing the crop area 95 to a specific size 96 97 to a standard size 96 cursor see pointer shape custom page sizes 96 98 99 100 custom units 62 cutting attributes 76 measuring area 77 rasters 77 cwrotation 36 97 cyan 125 D damaged files 25 dark images lightening display 84 104 dark prints improving 51 dates stamping on images 87 deactivating tools 68 decimal accuracy on measure 56 57 dense images lightening display 104 deskewing 90 92 93 94 101 deskewing in batches 114 despeckling 91 92 despeckling in batches 114 detail window displaying and hiding 34 freezing and releasing 34 magnifying and reducing view 34 137 diagnosing bad files 90 dimensions image 58 directories default 22 directories batch 115 119 directories default 22 dirty images cleaning up 91 dirty images cleaning up in batches 109 disk space 16 73 displaying document windows 23 floating windows 34 35 54 77 measurements 56 57 scroll bars 36 displaying objects hairlines 106 107 140 wireframes 106 107 dithered output on rasterize 83 dithering on print 50 document types 10 12 23 document windows closing 19 25 default display 23 dots removin
80. ng products in general different sections of the manual will be of interest e OCR ASCII text computer data and Experience Recommended start point SO on Beginner to Windows Your Windows documentation Beginner to imaging Imaging basics in this chapter Beginner to Oc View Station Starting Oc View Station on page 16 in Chapter 1 Then work your way through this manual based on your requirements Intermediate or expert Oc What s new since Release 1 0 on page 12 in View Station user this chapter Based on that and your requirements choose the manual sections of greatest interest to you Table 0 1 User experience and related reading ra Tip We also recommend that you read the Manual conventions section on page 14 in this chapter for better navigation through the User s Guide Imaging basics Imaging entails viewing and working with information electronically instead of on paper The types of electronic information that Oc View Station deals with can be divided into three basic categories raster images vector images and text documents Rasters Raster images can be bilevel grayscale or color but they are always made up of dots also called pixels They are created with drawing programs such as Paint and by scanning pieces of paper a For bilevel rasters each pixel is either on black or foreground or 1 or off white or background or 0 For e
81. ns to the active document To redraw all windows displaying the active document X Choose View Refresh The active document window and any other windows containing views of that document are redrawn Oc View Station User Manual Displaying a mirrored image Images are sometimes backward appearing in the document window as though you were looking at a reflection of them in a mirror Flip such images around to make them usable To mirror an image 0 Choose View Mirror The image is mirrored around a vertical axis J 2 HOITIJ3E SECTION C C Lan LE eT TEL EL AE Before After This is a raster image Using the Raster menu you can permanently change a raster image s mirroring For details see Correcting a mirrored raster on page 97 in Chapter 14 The next chapter discusses how to view the different pages of multipage documents Viewing Pages 39 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 5 Working with Multiple Pages As with text documents special commands exist for dealing with multiple pages in a single window This chapter describes various ways of viewing multipage documents 41 Creating multipage documents For details on opening documents see 2 Oc View Station 3 Help Topics Open and Create 4 Documents Opening Documents You can combine existing single page documents into a new multipage document For example you can create a
82. o a percentage of the image size by selecting as the unit to a maximum of 20 percent Set the Brightness of the stamp text Place text in the text boxes that match where you want the stamp to appear on the page for example Top Left to Bottom Right Diagonal as in Figure 35 You can type text or insert Stamp variables Variables are explained in Table 0 3 on page 87 Click OK A progress indicator appears as the image and the stamp are combined into one new bilevel raster image Variable Resulting text Date Today s date in Windows format Document Name The document s label File Name The document s file name Full File Name The document s directory path and file name Page The current page number Pages The total number of pages TileCol A number indicating which column that part of the tiled image belongs in TileRow A number indicating which row that part of the tiled image belongs in Time Time in Windows format User ID User identification number or code Table 0 3 Variable options Other customized variables may be available as well The next chapter discusses operations that improve raster images Rasterizing Images 87 Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 14 Improving Raster Images You can alter certain aspects of existing rasters or rasterize images as described in Chapter 13 on page 81 You can correct
83. of raster data The data is either on or off black or white with no intermediate status bitmap A raster image A collection of dots called pixels that make up an image Sample bitmap 124 check boxes Settings in dialog boxes that can be selected KI and cleared D Clipboard Temporary memory storage in a computer where data is held while it is being copied from one place to another Oc View Station User Manual color raster Raster image in which combinations of red green blue RGB form the color pixels compression A technique for making raster data sizes smaller so that they consume less RAM and disk space A raster file in its native or raw form is uncompressed Compression is achieved by applying mathematical algorithms to the data storage process configuring Defining the default attributes CTRL Control key on the keyboard used for selecting items non sequentially and for keyboard shortcuts current multipage The displayed portion of the active multipage whether or not that is an embedded page current page Page displayed in the active document window that is affected by commands Its title bar is displayed in reverse field cyan A blue green color similar to turquoise It reflects blue and green and absorbs red data format See file format defaults Preset conditions and attributes that determine the operation of Oc View Station The default value is automatically assigned unless you sp
84. options to use Repeat steps 2 and 3 as required To apply the settings to the current page only click OK or To apply them to all pages click Set All The page or pages in the active document are displayed with the selected options To set viewing defaults 95 NT Choose Preference View The View Preferences dialog box appears It looks similar to the View Options one In the dialog box Follow steps 2 to 5 of the previous procedure Note that a Measurements category is also available Click Save Click OK These options apply to the documents you open next but do not affect the active document Viewing Pages 29 Zooming and scaling You can specify how images are scaled when they first open v To define the default scaling of images 1 Choose Preference View In the View Preferences dialog box 2 Under Scale click the scale option to use by AR cale default For an explanation of each press F1 or click Help and read the Oc View C Horizontal Fit StationHelp topic C Vertical Fit 3 Click Save Click OK pee Documents you open next will be displayed one EEk with the selected scale option The active document is not affected The following an es subsections explain how to change its scale Magnifying a specific area of the image The mouse zoom is the fastest way to magnify an exact part of the image Normally you do this with the left mouse button co Tip You c
85. ormatting information Created with word processing spreadsheet desktop publishing OCR and text editor programs tiled images Files in which the image is saved in several small pieces called tiles that are stored and decompressed individually tiled windows Document windows that are fully displayed in columns and rows If the number of windows is even each takes up an equal portion of the screen Chosen with the Window Tile command tiling in strips Displaying document windows in horizontal WT bands that do not overlap keeping all windows visible Chosen Be with the Window Tile Strips command Wa pi Tiling in strips ToolTip Explanation that appears when you place the pointer on a button translucent Semi transparent or see through color Translucent is an option for some object attributes Oc View Station User Manual twip Abbreviation for 1 20th of a point a point being a typeset measurement equal to 1 72nd of an inch Therefore 1 twip equals 1 1440th of an inch Generally used to measure text Undo list List of canceled actions on the edit layer Used by the Edit Undo command to restore previous versions of a document if you make a mistake vector images Images that are defined mathematically and displayed graphically Used in CAD and engineering software for precise mathematically editable designs In Oc View Station they are displayed on edit layers View Ribbon The bar th
86. otation 10 CC X F Crop Minimal M Stamp F Size Resolution RE or l Banner Ontior Options lM Thumbnail New Eile Format Same as Original v Batch Directory es Browse 51 Command Setup dialog box as it appears when first opened In the Command Setup dialog box Select the required image clean up commands Click the related Options button to define the Stamp Size Resolution or Banner commands For details about using any of these commands see Making banners or stamps part of the image on page 84 in Chapter 13 and Chapter 14 Improving Raster Images on page 89 If required select the Thumbnail check box and set Options for the thumbnail If required select a New File Format for the image Select a Batch Directory to submit the image to Note You must select a directory even if it is the one the image is currently in unless you are defining the commands globally through the Batch Setup dialog box Click OK To staple the commands to the image to be carried out later when processing the batch choose Batch Submit to Batch The image is sent to a batch to be processed later Tip To test how the commands will clean up the image and images like it choose Batch Run Commands The commands are carried out and the new bilevel raster image replaces the old one Oc View Station User Manual For details on defining specific options in the Command Setup dialog box see the follow
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88. p if available appear in the language of your choice To change the Oc View Station language 95 NT In Oc View Station choose Preference System The System Preferences dialog box appears Click the Interface tab From the Language list select the language to use Click Save Click OK The Oc View Station user interface appears in the language you selected Using Oc View Station Help The Oc View Station Help file is a good source of context sensitive and up to date information To start Oc View Station Help a From the Help menu choose one of the first four commands or Search for Help on a When a dialog box is active or a command is Keyboard selected press F1 or click the Help button rhs MN About Oc View Station The selected Help window appears The Contents tab is available in both the Windows 95 NT and the Windows 3 1 versions of Oc View Station In Windows 95 NT it appears when you choose the Help Contents command In Windows 3 1 it appears after you choose Getting Started 17 Help Contents and click the Help Topics button in the Oc View Station Help window The Contents presents a series of books Double click any book to reveal the name of its 2 topics The book symbol changes to A You can print or display any selected topic Finding topics Use the Index tab of the Help Topics window to find specific topics Note that instructions for using it appear r
89. page 119 2 Inthe Batch Setup dialog box change the required options For details see the previous section Click OK The changes are applied to the batch Processing batches After creating a series of batches you must process the images in them When images are processed they are rasterized to bilevel Then any commands that have been stapled to them are carried out You can process batches automatically or you can select individual batches to process v To process batches automatically In the Batch Manager dialog box see Figure 54 on page 118 1 If required select any batches and click Enable or Disable to allow them to be processed or not See Figure 56 120 Oc View Station User Manual Enabled batches are Batch Manager indicated by a MJ G97 12 14 Disabled batches are C7 97 12 22 indicated by a O e 038 0712 Batches with time frames for ae n processing are indicated by V a clock 56 Enabled and Disabled batches with time frames Click Process Batches This starts the processing of all enabled batches one image at a time from each batch until the last batch Then the next image from the first batch is processed and so on The batches are processed in order unless they have a time assigned to them in the Batch Setup dialog box Those batches are monitored and processed during the designated time frames To process only selected batches In the Batch Manager dialog box
90. re copied to the Clipboard and can be pasted into a spreadsheet Changing the default measurement options You can change the default measurement tool and specify what fields are displayed in the Measurements window v To change the default measurement options 95 NT 1 Choose Preference View In the View Preferences dialog box 2 Click the Measurements tab The Measurements category appears See Figure 22 56 Oc View Station User Manual View Preferences Lx Scale Rotation Display Window Measurements r Show Mode Accuracy 0 000 gt M Tool M Abs Coord V Rel Coord M Length iv Points M Angle M Rel Angle FN Perimeter M Area I Readius Diameter Tool et Cancel Save Reset Help 22 Measurements category of the View Preferences dialog box 3 From the Tool list select the tool to measure with by default 4 From the Accuracy list select the number of digits to display after the decimal points in the Measurements window 5 Under Show select the check boxes of the fields to display in the Measurements window Clear the check boxes of those to remove 6 Click Save Click OK The selections are applied immediately to the Measurements window if displayed Calibrating measurements All image measurements are initially based on the image resolution You can set your own scale for the image v To set a scale for the image 1 Right mouse click in the Measurements win
91. rize Bilevel and Dither check boxes to print color and grayscale images on black and white printers Table 0 2 gives recommendations For color printers clear these three check boxes regardless of the document type Document type Print options Text document or vector image M Rasterize M Bilevel M Dither Color or grayscale raster M Rasterize M Bilevel M Dither Bilevel raster O Rasterize O Bilevel O Dither Try selecting these check boxes With some printers they produce better results Table 0 2 Recommended print options for black and white printers When you select the Dither check box you can use the Brightness slider depicted in Figure 18 Adjust it if your print is too light or too dark 50 Oc View Station User Manual SE Light Dark 18 Brightness slider for light dark adjustment Lines and fills in vector images In the Options category of the Print dialog box you can specify a Minimum Vector Width for printing vector images as depicted in Figure 19 This ensures that very thin vector lines show up on the print at the specified width Type the size in the selected units M Minimum Vector Width 0 05 in 19 Minimum Vector Width setting for printed lines Under Pen Mask Table see Figure 20 you can also select a pen mask file spm This file controls the printed thicknesses and colors for lines and fills in a vector image by printing the original colors as bilevel pat
92. rogress indicator appears as the document is sent to the printer Troubleshooting D Problems can occur when printing such as the one described in this subsection My printed image is incomplete or distorted Your printer cannot handle large print buffer sizes In the Options category of the Print dialog box select the Use Small Print Buffer check box to override the print buffer size allocated for storing decompressed data during a print job A small memory buffer will use less of your computer RAM random access memory but will decrease the speed of printing M Use Small Print Buffer Defining print options Many print options are available to account for the various sizes orientations and colors of the images you may print On print you can select a the scale factor to apply which part of the page to print a the orientation to use page grouping options margins a which color options to use Printing 47 a line widths and pen masks for vector images The following subsections explain each of these options Scale In the Print category the Scale options depicted in Figure 13 define how to scale the image on print Scale To Fit Actual Size Actual Size or Fit Fit To Length Fit To Width No Scaling To Fit Actual Size To Half Page No Scaling 1 1 With the Actual Size or Fit option Actual Size is used if the image fits on one page at that
93. s rotated The new rotated image is displayed Its header rotation value is 0 zero Resizing a raster You can change the size of any raster image Smaller images take up less disk space and are faster to load but they lose some detail Improving Raster Images 97 v To resize the active raster image 1 Choose Raster Resize The Resize dialog box appears See Figure 43 Size om 9 259 x Sis in M Preserve Aspect fo 723 x Resolution I Override Current Resolution MM dentical Rescliticre cos 43 Resize dialog box In the Resize dialog box under Size 2 From the list select the size for the new raster You can select one of the predefined custom or standard sizes such as Legal or ISO A2 or you can select Custom 3 Decide if you want to select Preserve Aspect Select this check box to maintain aspect ratio 4 If you have selected Custom size You can type a scale factor for the new image For example type 0 5 to make it half the original s size If the Fit scale or FAR a You can type or select the length of the new image If Preserve Aspect is looks the same as selected the width is automatically defined If Preserve Aspect is cleared the original If you can type or select the new width too you check its size in properties 5 Click OK however or view it at its actual A indi he i A ized Th ized i Savour iles progress indicator appears as the image is res
94. st be of the same size and font 4 Place text into the text boxes that match where you want the banner to appear on the page for example Top Left and Top Right as in Figure 34 You can type text or insert Banner Variables Variables are explained in Table 0 3 on page 87 Click OK A progress indicator appears as the image and the banner are combined into one new bilevel raster image Rasterizing Images 85 Combining stamps You can combine a stamp with the current page or with all pages in a document to create new raster images v To combine a stamp with the image 1 Choose Raster Stamp Current Page to combine the stamp with the current page or Choose Raster Stamp All Pages to combine the stamp with all pages in a multipage document The Stamp dialog box appears See Figure 35 Text Font Times New Roman Sa poral ail b H Cancel Size 0 pts Brightness Light J Dak hee Center Right j E Diagonal stamp Diagonal combina 0 i tion of Printed on amp Date amp Top Leftto Bottom Right i typedtext C Bottom Leftto Top Right and Bottom Left Center Right date variable i i i m Stamp Variables Date l 35 Stamp dialog box with sample text 86 Oc View Station User Manual In the Stamp dialog box Select the Font to use Type or select the Size of the stamp text You can use an absolute size or set it t
95. te When optimizing raster speed consider the following a Negate has little effect on speed and memory Scale to Gray slows down image display Sample makes raster images display more quickly a When the Detail or Reference windows are open display is slowed Some video display drivers cause image distortions if Fast Scroll is selected If this happens clear the Fast Scroll check box a When Fast Display is selected sampling is activated Deactivate it using View Sample if your images are too pale Optimizing vector speed 106 The display of complex vector images is sometimes slow The Hairlines and Wireframes options accelerate the load zoom redraw and scroll speed for vector images They also affect image quality however To accelerate the display of vector images Choose View Hairlines to activate it Hairlines causes all lines in vector images to appear as being 1 pixel thick at all scale factors gt Oc View Station User Manual 2 Choose View Wireframes to activate it Wireframes displays the image without any fills as though it contained only transparent objects ie Note that using wireframes also allows you to see what is behind opaque objects Optimizing vector display Several commands exist for the express purpose of making vector images look better Often display problems are particular to the vector file format In general note that changes to color don t affe
96. terns This helps distinguish the lines and fills when images are printed with a black and white printer m Pen Mask Table JE Std246 spm 20 Pen Mask Table reference in the Print Options category Printing to file A PostScript file is a device independent file format that allows you to save printer ready documents as files rather then send them to the printer Vv You can save a document as a PostScript file if you have a PostScript printer driver installed PostScript is primarily a language for printing documents on laser printers It is the standard for desktop publishing because it is supported by the high resolution printers used to produce camera ready copy To create a PostScript file 95 NT Choose File Print In the Print category select the Print to file check box Click Print vi Printing 51 In the Print to File dialog box 3 Choose the folder to print the document to 4 Type the File Name to use retaining the file name extension Click Print The file is saved to the location you selected The next chapter explains how to get file or image information from within Oc View Station Oc View Station User Manual Oc View Station User Manual Chapter 7 Getting Information Sometimes you must know what type of document you re viewing or how big an area of an image is Oc View Station offers several means of getting access to this sort of information This
97. the Detail window 2 From the menu that appears choose 1 1 Magnify or Reduce LS Note With Magnify and Reduce the display scale only changes by a small amount each time By 10 percent or by half the zoom step value whichever is greater Normally the Detail window view changes as the pointer moves You can freeze it v To freeze the Detail window view 1 Click in the title bar of the Detail window to activate it 2 Press CTRL F11 The Detail window display stops moving when the pointer moves To release the Detail window press CTRL F11 again Getting an overview of the image The Reference window is a small window that shows the entire current page and indicates with a crossed box what part appears in the active document window See Figure 9 The Reference window is normally a floating window whose shown or hidden status is saved on quit 34 Oc View Station User Manual Crank mil l0 x 7 a SECTIO B CHEEKS 2 29 08 amp 7 4 9 Crossed box in the Reference window v To display or hide the Reference window EA Choose Preference Reference The Reference window is displayed or hidden Other sections of this chapter explain how to use the Reference window for zooming and for scrolling and how to redraw it Scrolling As with other Windows based programs you can scroll around Oc View Stationimages using the scroll bars and arrows in the document windows You can a
98. tory in which to place images that fail to be processed or select it using Browse a In the Thumbnails text box type the directory into which thumbnails are placed or select it using Browse If required select the Keep Original check box to preserve a copy of the original image Type the directory in which to place the original images or select it using Browse a If required select the Log File check box to create a log file Type the directory and file name of the log file or select the directory using Browse To apply clean up and file options to the images in the batch that are different from those that are attached to them select the Override Commands in Images Processing Images in Batches 119 check box Click Command Setup to open the Command Setup dialog box and select clean up and file options For details see Defining image improvements on page 113 in this chapter 2 To process the batch during a specific time frame select the Process Batch During Time Window check box Specify the Start At and Stop At times Click OK The new batch appears in the Batch Manager dialog box Editing batches You can edit a batch s definitions You can also delete a batch by selecting it and clicking the Delete button in the Batch Manager dialog box v To edit a batch In the Batch Manager dialog box see Figure 54 on page 118 1 Select the batch to edit Click Edit The Batch Setup dialog box appears See Figure 55 on
99. ults 22 23 troubleshooting 24 25 operating systems 129 optimizing raster display quality 104 105 raster speed 105 106 vector display quality 107 vector speed 106 107 options 129 orientation of batch images 114 on display 36 onprint 49 of raster data 97 ovals see ellipses overview of image 34 overview window see reference window P page down 136 page numbers stamping on images 87 page sizes custom 99 pageup 136 pages 11 41 changing 42 43 grouping on print 49 levels 43 printing 47 properties 58 59 rasterizing 83 redrawing 38 panning see scrolling pastes defining 78 pastes defining 79 pasting rasters 78 79 pen mapping file 51 pen settings vector files 107 108 perimeter measurements 55 permissions 58 pixels 10 see also units of measurement placing objects see drawing platforms see operating systems pointer shape 18 polygon shape 63 polygons drawing 67 portrait orientation applying to raster data 97 onprint 49 position banners 85 images 35 objects 68 stamps 87 windows 23 postscript file 51 preferences 130 preview images 106 print buffer 47 printing 46 47 options 47 48 49 50 51 to file 51 troubleshooting 47 processing batches 109 120 121 see also batches properties document 58 59 proportional stamp size 87 Index Q quitting oc view station 19 R radian measurements 55 ram 16 47 raster files comments 59 converting 73 corrupted 25 90 default format 73 for
100. ument window or in a floating window to display a context sensitive menu Different menus appear depending on the window in which you click whether objects are selected and whether you drag the mouse when you click You can select a command from the menu that appears For an example see Figure 57 amp Applied mil olx Cut Copy Paste Fit Magnify Reduce Invert Rotate 90 CCW Rotate 90 CV Rotate 180 View Options 57 Right mouse button shortcuts 138 Oc View Station User Manual Index A active raster layer changing resolution 98 cleaning 92 copying 76 77 cropping 94 96 97 cutting 76 77 deskewing 92 94 despeckling 91 mirroring 97 negating 91 negative display 37 38 processing in a batch 110 111 113 resizing 98 rotating 97 sampling 104 scaling to gray 104 actual size applying to all pages 32 displaying images at 33 printing at 48 angle measurements 55 angle of deskew 93 94 areas cropping 95 erasing 66 67 measuring 55 arrow keys 137 aspect ratio maintaining 32 98 attributes cuts copies 76 erases 63 pastes 78 automatic cropping 95 96 automatic cropping in batches 114 automatic deskewing 93 automatic deskewing in batches 114 automatic processing of images 109 120 139 Oc View Station User Manual background color inverting 37 background removing 94 bad raster files 25 90 banners 84 85 banners in batches 114 batches 109 clean up commands 113 114 119
101. windows that can be placed anywhere on your desktop that is they float above all other windows Floating windows often show a different view of the image and generally allow you to perform certain actions on the active document foreground Part of the image that consists of color or black pixels in positive images vector objects or text as opposed to the background behind the image Compare background Oc View Station User Manual global Settings that affect all documents objects or tools grayscale Raster image in which each dot or pixel is assigned a number ranging from 0 for black to some other number often 255 for white Each number in between represents an ever lighter shade of gray hairlines Line objects of zero width These vectors are displayed as lines of 1 screen pixel thickness at all scale factors D gt header Data attached to the beginning of a file that describes or controls the actions that apply to the following data such as rotation mirroring data type and compression imaging Recording human readable images pictures images text and so on into machine readable formats microfiche computer data videotape OCR output ASCII text and so forth integer Any rational whole number that is not a decimal or fraction inverted image Image in which the black and white sections are reversed Similar to negative images except that the color ratio is maintain
102. x appears Oc View Station User Manual Options Command Setup I Process Batch During Time Window Start At F 0 00 pm Stop At 50 Override Commands in Images lets you define commands for the entire batch 7 Inthe Command Setup dialog box select the appropriate options to apply For details see Defining image improvements in this chapter Click OK 8 In the Batch Setup dialog box click OK 9 In the Batch Manager dialog box process the batches For details see Processing batches on page 120 in this chapter The batches are processed and the new bilevel raster images are sent to an Output directory Defining image improvements You can define a series of image improvement and file option commands to be carried out on each image when its batch is processed You can define them individually for each image or globally for all images in a particular batch LS Note All images are rasterized to bilevel before the commands are carried out 4 To define clean up and file option commands for images 1 Choose Batch Command Setup or a In the Batch Setup dialog box Batch Batch Manager click New or Edit select the Override Commands in Images check box Click Command Setup The Command Setup dialog box appears Processing Images in Batches 113 114 F Negate Bek Cancel I Hole Fill FE j l Despeckle 7 Sent Image F Auto Deskew Save clean up commands P
103. xample this paragraph is bilevel 10 Oc View Station User Manual With grayscale rasters each pixel is assigned a number from 0 black to 255 white with each number in between representing an ever lighter shade of gray Scanning black and white photographs creates grayscale images a In color rasters a combination of red green and blue RGB is used to form pixels with color Scanning color photographs with a color scanner produces color rasters Vectors and text documents Vector images are complex images that are defined mathematically They consist of lines and objects text arrows polygons and so on instead of dots AutoCAD and other engineering programs produce vector images Text documents are similar to vector images in that they contain meaningful data instead of dots They consist of text letters numbers and punctuation and often formatting information fonts margins tab sizes and so on that defines how to display the text Word processors produce text documents Oc View Station treats text documents similarly to vector images Combining types Rasters vectors and text documents are displayed on layers in Oc View Station Rasters are displayed on raster layers vector images and text documents on edit layers Think of layers as sheets of acetate that can be stacked one on top of the other so that the information on each layer is displayed at once This association of layers is called
104. y colors the new raster contains Color Bilevel 24 bit True Color 33 Color list from the Rasterize dialog box a To produce a bilevel black and white image without dithered sections select Bilevel a To produce a bilevel image in which color or grayscale areas are simulated with pixel patterns select Bilevel Diffusion Dithered With this option the file size will be bigger than Bilevel but smaller than with Grayscale or Color To produce a grayscale raster select Grayscale To produce a color raster select 256 Colors or 24 bit True Color larger file size Note It doesn t make much sense to use these last options unless the original image contains colors Rasterizing Images 83 If you select Bilevel or Bilevel Diffusion Dithered you can set the Light Dark slider to the appropriate brightness level Troubleshooting A few problems can occur with rasterizing Here s how to deal with them iy gt Some objects shifted after I rasterized the image They line up differently than they did before This can occur unless all edits were done while the image was displayed at a 1 1 scale factor gt A message says that the image will be truncated on rasterize Assuming you don t want the image truncated or cut off try rasterizing to a smaller Resolution value You can also resize or crop the image before rasterizing it For more information about these options see Chapter 14 Improvin
105. ze 33 fitting to window 33 145 Oc View Station User Manual scale factors 33 scaling images all pages 32 future documents 30 onprint 48 options 33 scaling to gray 104 scanned images batch processing 110 scroll bars viewing 36 scrolling setting scroll step 36 using the reference window 36 set all button 29 shape cuts copies 76 77 erased areas 63 measure areas 55 pastes 79 pointer 18 77 shortcut keys 135 136 137 size banners 85 changing see resizing crop area 96 custom pages 99 100 files 58 images 24 58 95 97 stamps 87 standard 95 96 98 thumbnails 116 speckle size defining 92 spicer vector edt 132 stacked windows see cascaded windows stamps 84 87 stamps in batches 114 standard page sizes 98 100 standard sizes cropping to 96 starting oc view station 16 step scroll 36 step zoom 32 straightening images 90 92 94 straightening images in batches 114 submitting images to batches 114 subordinate multipages 43 system preferences interface 17 optimize 105 page size 99 units 62 system requirements 16 T text documents 11 thickness object lines 63 vector pens 51 108 thumbnails directory 119 thumbnails defining 115 tiles numbering 87 printing 48 tiling windows 132 time stamping on images 87 tips 14 tool for measuring 54 56 57 tools 61 tooltips 17 132 topics in help 18 translucent pastes 79 transparent fills 107 troubleshooting drawing 68 erasing
106. zing vector speed on page 106 in Chapter 15 Vector pens can be defined Configuring vector pen lines on page 107 in Chapter 15 Right mouse button context sensitive menu Using the right mouse button to choose commands on page 138 in Appendix B Related publications The Oc View Station program is shipped with a User s Guide which you are now reading Oc View Stationalso has a complete context sensitive Help file It contains more comprehensive information than this guide both more advanced and more basic procedures For details see Using Oc View Station Help Before You Begin 13 Manual conventions Throughout this manual the following conventions are used Beginning of a series of instructions The text appears in 9 point Futura Book bold The Note symbol indicates an important note or a warning The text beside it may be in italic or bold depending on its relative importance The Tip symbol indicates tips for performing the task or for avoiding potential problems The troubleshooting symbol introduces lists of common problems associated with certain tasks and their solutions Some words which appear in bold in the text are expanded on in margin notes In procedures we follow these guidelines When procedures are substantially different between the 95 NT and 3 1 versions of Oc View Station we use the 95 NT procedure indicated wh

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